Getting to the wire here! Can safely deliver as early as next Friday! While I would like to go early, not quite that early…don’t think I will be quite done with this index by then – almost but not quite.. But next Saturday night or Sunday work for me! Due date in less than four weeks!
Here is the update. We had the home-visit with the midwives yesterday. Lisa brought out the birthtub. We are going to set it up next weekend so it will be ready to go. The prenatal exam at the home-visit went well. Everything looks fine and dandy. They think that the baby is in a good position, and not too large at this point.
Overall, I am doing well. The chiropractor hit something a month or so ago, and I have been feeling a bit better as a result. Still having some pain, but not as much as I was having. I can walk a bit better, etc. I am still HUGE…bumping into things as I walk, finding many of my maternity clothes no longer fit right. I am hot all the time, and tired, and cranky. I am having a LOT of contractions, some of them are really painful. Nothing to be concerned with, as I always do this in my pregnancies. I am finishing up my last indexing project this week and then I am officially on maternity leave. I’m pretty much ready for the baby and the birth. Still need to purchase a few minor supplies (which I will probably do tomorrow), and need to sort the diapers and organize a few things here and there, but overall, I am ready to go. Have a drawer full of newborn neutral stuff, just waiting for the baby. Have washed all the blankets and burp clothes…I know where the carseat is, and the other baby gear (slings, etc.) are. I am mentally prepared for the birth! The Blessingway is next weekend. I am looking forward to it!
So give me another week and then let’er rip!
I’ve got about one or two bags of some boy type things. If daddy meets us in Fredericksburg, I may send them home with him, to give to you. I’ve got little infant stocking caps, mostly boy colored (If you get into the gender color thing- blue-boy, pink-girl). Personally speaking, Taylor is so 100% boy, he could wear pink and if any other toddler said anything about his manhood, Taylor could just sit on ‘em, pinning them down until they apologized! (That’s my boy!)
Good luck as you get nearer to ‘the date’! #4- I still can’t believe it!!!
oh, what is a blessingway????