Good Golly Miss Molly

Yeah It's September 8th and I am freaking out! It didn't really hit me that Avery will be here so soon, until my Aunts decided to throw me a baby shower this weekend. It's all so surreal!
Yesterday I had to go to the hospital to do some testing for high blood pressure. Basically everyone on my dad's side has it and I had a few appointments were it was high, when mine is usually normal.
I had to do an AFI, an Amniotic Fluid something.. where I went to radiology and they did an ultrasound to check to make sure my amniotic fluid levels were good. And they were. Todd came with me and we got to see Avery again. She is so BIG! she is like 2 times bigger than she was 10 weeks ago! She is head down, which is great news, and she is so smashed in there she looked like she was getting nosed. ( when you make your nose look like a pig nose) But what was really exciting is that the tech said that she could see hair on her head! It will probably be white, like Todd and I had at birth, but I am excited to see how much hair she really has!
Next we headed over to labor and delivery. Yet another surreal moment. I had to get the fetal heart monitor strapped to me as well as a contraction monitor. They had a blood pressure bag around my arm that would go off every 10 minutes or so. My blood pressure was good. Avery's heartbeat was good. She drew a ton of blood, but of course I wasn't looking, Todd told me. Thankfully she got it on the first try. And then she said wait about 30 minutes for your labs and you will be done. Well 30 minutes turned into an hour and 30 minutes. Labs came back normal, they were just waiting for my doctor to call back to discharge me. While Todd and I were waiting we were watching a broken TV. It had no sound. so we just listened to Avery's heartbeat and tried to imagine what the TV shows were talking about. I finally got to A okay to leave and they had one more test to send me home with. The 24 hour urine test.
Basically I have a little potty that I have to urinate in, and then pour it in these gallon jugs. I have to do this for 24 hours. Last night was not fun, and I hardly got any sleep because I have to get up to pee so much, but now have this whole pour and ice routine. Thank goodness it was only for one night! I have to take my jugs of urine to the lab today. I guess they are measuring the levels of protein in my urine to make sure my liver/ kidneys are working normally. All this trouble for a healthy baby/ pregnancy! Only 8 weeks to go!