2 days away and content... what??

How extremely odd that I am becoming more and more content with being pregnant? Maybe it's the thought of trying to breastfeed a new baby with my three wild ones in the house, or maybe it's because everyone that I encounter fully expects me to be miserable and out of spite I am starting to feel better... I won't ever know, but for right now I am content. Tomorrow is my next appointment... Keep you posted!

Phones are still off and no... still no baby!

The title says it all! If you have been trying to call and are not getting us it's because the ringers are still off not because I have drug my big fat butt out of the house to the hospital. Each new day brings more calls and each new phone call brings me more stress. I still completely understand every one's good intentions and totally appreciate them but between 3 hyper kids, 2 annoying dogs, my inability to move and my sheer frustration with being pregnant.... talking on the phone is NOT what I want to be doing right now. When something changes I will let everyone know but today isn't looking like a very promising day. Much love to everyone!

39 weeks!

Pretty unbelievable huh?

Well here we are. I am gigantic and yesterday's "stripping" did nothing at all except get my hopes up with an evening full of contractions. I am just going to expect to make it to next weeks appointment and if I don't then it will be a pleasant surprise.

Look out May... here we come!

Update from Dr's appointment

Well I have made some progress since last week. I am now 3 cms with a bulging bag of water! I want to say hooray but for some reason I don't think it means much of anything. Dr stripped my membranes so now we wait and see....

PSA

This is a public service announcement and I am terribly sorry if it comes off horribly rude but it's for every one's own good. I have shut my phones off for the time being. I have been in a down right terrible mood as of late and need as much quiet as I can get which is already difficult enough with 3 kids in the house. I am just having a really hard time with my phones ringing every 10 minutes with the same questions and while I completely understand and appreciate that everyone is very well meaning I just can't seem to have a conversation without being horribly nasty to whoever it is that I'm talking to. Again, I am sorry but I just need a break right now.

With that said, I am still very pregnant and with my due date quickly approaching we are all on edge. I have my 39w appointment this afternoon and doubt that there has been any change. I was contracting more between weeks 29 and 35 than I am now which is very frustrating to say the least. My blood pressure is all over the place and I have been having really bad headaches/migraines for the last couple of days and am very sick to my stomach so I haven't been able to eat much of anything which is depleting what energy I do have very quickly.

I will update more later today if anything interesting comes from my appointment. Otherwise, stay tuned! We might just have a baby sometime before he is due to leave for kindergarten!

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As for us... still pregnant! I am so ready for this to be done but at the same time I am just dieing for him to get super fat so I can have my little chubby man! We had some storms roll through today and it caused me to have a ton of pressure and some stronger contractions but not much has happened since. We have known for a while now that little man is posterior so I started some techniques from Spinning Babies to encourage him to spin around to the proper anterior position so that his head engages and makes these contractions more productive. Why I didn't start this a couple of weeks ago is beyond me, but hopefully it's not too late and he does what needs to be done. If not, chances are pretty good that we are in for a long and hard labor. Here's to a weekend of spinning babies and hopefully lots of rest before he makes his appearance!

We made it full term!

Now he needs to GET OUT!
Hehe!
Now we just sit and wait. I contracted painfully all day long yesterday and finally went into Labor and Delivery at 11:00pm only to find that my cervix is still where it has been. The nurse, who I know from my mom's group, and I have decided that my cervix is just broken.
Little man is getting nice and fat and is definitely putting way too much pressure on my already screwed up pelvis. I know he will be completely worth it all in the end but I am just so very ready to see his sweet little face.
Dr. P is leaving the country tomorrow for a whole week so I'm sure that he will be born sometime while he's gone, that's just how we roll around here. Can't keep things simple :O)
Everyone is getting overly anxious.... and crabby.
Here's hoping for a baby by next week this time!