40 Weeks!

It has arrived.  I am now 40 weeks pregnant.  My due date was yesterday, November 27th.  My little lady can arrive safely at any moment now.  Except, I don't think she wants to come yet.  She is enjoying her cozy and warm environment while she can.  I had my 40 week appointment today and I'm not much more dilated and I'm even less effaced than I was last week.  Lame.  

Oh well.  I know this little lady will come when she is supposed to.  Though I think I will start all the "old wives tales" of ways to help induce the baby.  Hopefully she'll come by the weekend.  

I just can't wait to meet her and hold her in my arms! 

Another Incredible Blessing

Last night the doorbell rang.  My brother got the door and yelled down the stairs that it was for me.  When I finally hobbled up the stairs I found the front door closed, which I thought was odd as my brother said, “They are out on the porch”.  When I opened the front door, no one was there... but there was a huge pile of baby gifts!  All of which are much needed and incredibly appreciated items! 

We are overwhelmed and humbled by the generosity and kindness of our mystery givers.  We truly are grateful and can never thank whomever it is enough. 

36 Weeks and Counting

Yes, yes…I know, I keep saying I’ll post more pictures of my baby belly which turns out to be lies.  I have the pics, I’m just too busy to take the time to actually post them.  I am in the middle of repenting, so they will be put up soon…meaning before our little lady arrives.

I also had some maternity photos taken 3 weeks ago and once I get those back, I will post those as well.

This week marked my 36^th week…meaning I’m finally in the last month.  Which, technically is the 10^th month.  This whole 9 months of pregnancy is a total fallacy.  Pregnancy is counted in weeks.  40 of them.  Which, if anyone can do their math, there are usually 4 weeks in a month, and 40 divided by 4 equals 10.  Yep.  10 months.  Though I’m not complaining as I’ve had a GREAT pregnancy (especially once Omeprazole and I became great friends and I go to the chiropractor weekly).  In fact, with how close the due date is becoming I’m wishing I had more time…there is still so much to do!

We finally started putting the baby’s room together.  Yes, yes, we procrastinated…but for very good reasons I won’t get into.  We just finally broke down and decided we shouldn’t wait any longer.  Things are coming together fairly well.  We are still awaiting the arrival of the cradle.  Husband’s father is making one for us out of maple, which we can’t wait to get!  It will be beautiful I’m sure!

We are trying to adjust our cats to the new residence of their food.  They are being a bit difficult about it, but it has only been 5 days, so hopefully they’ll catch on soon. 

I rolled my ankle last week and took a tumble.  Luckily I caught myself mostly with my hands so the trauma to the baby was very minimal., if there was any at all.   The trauma to my ankle is another story: I heard it pop as I stepped on it wrong and went down.  I believe that having my center of balance off and my ligaments really loose due to pregnancy made for the perfect situation for injuring my unaware ankle. I’ve wrapped it, iced it and elevated it every day, and it still aches pretty badly.  I decided to self-treat my injury beyond what I’ve been doing and I pulled out my gigantic boot from when I tore the ligaments in the same ankle during the Ragnar Relay two summers ago.  I hate wearing it, but I would rather do so and help it heal than have a bum ankle when our little lady gets here.  I figure if it still hurts as badly next week, after wearing the boot every day, I will give in and see my podiatrist (and pray he doesn’t tell me it’s broken).

My OB said everything looks great and the baby has a happy and healthy heartbeat.  She also said she doesn’t think she’ll come early, which is fine by me.  We’re hoping our little lady doesn't come until the 30th of November because of schooling and tests.  But I know she’ll come when she is ready to, and we’ll be prepared for her arrival regardless – we’ll have to be.