Funny story about my doctor's appointment today. I asked her if she was able to estimate the size of the baby right now to see how it compared to the average baby size for how far along I am. For 37 weeks' gestation, the average baby should be between six and six and a half pounds. Babies gain about half a pound a week in the last month of pregnancy, making the average baby about 7 1/2 lbs. at birth, maybe a little more. A nice and reasonable size for a baby.

But not my baby. Average isn't good enough for her. After much prodding and feeling, the doctor throws out a guess of, in her words, high seven or low eight. So already the baby's bigger than most babies are at birth, and I have another three weeks to go. At half a pound a week, we're looking at around 9.5 lbs.

Nine and a half pounds.

And since the baby hasn't even dropped yet, something that usually happens at least a couple weeks before birth, if not earlier, I'm nowhere close to going into labour.

No wonder I've gained so much weight.