Tomorrow is the due date!  I’m glad I read that only 20% of babies are actually born on their due date.  My checkup this morning included my first cervical check.  I’m 1 cm dialated and 50% effaced but Baby is still really high and hasn’t moved down into position, so right now it’s looking like the weekend may be it.  I had predicted Saturday the 5th for a while now… let’s see!  What’s your guess for the actual day/time?

Big Belly!

The couple of extra days will help- we’re getting ready but there are still things to do.  I haven’t chosen a pediatrician yet and there will always be things to do in the house still.  And there is still the issue of the name.

Things that we have completed though:

• The baby room is actually coming along.  I just wanted it ready enough to put clothes away and organize the amazing gifts we’ve received and have the changing table all set and for the most part, that is all done.  Josh set up the crib with the rain forest mobile we got and it really made it real that she’s coming!
• I think we have pretty much everything we need.  A few odds and ends- nursing bras, etc, but the cloth diapers are mostly in and ordered and between the two amazing showers I had- one in Maine and one thrown by the best coworkers on the planet- we’re good!
• The baby bag is packed and my hospital bag is at least completely planned with the list of what needs to go in it

I can’t help but be nervous, but I feel like it’s at least justified.  I am more excited to meet her though- I just want to know she’s ok and healthy and all of that.  I want to get a sense of her personality.  I’m very much trying not to think about the tragedies that I know about of things that have happened soon after birth.  Josh admitted to me last week that he too was nervous and worried.  “What if when she’s 13 she doesn’t want to go to the aquarium with me anymore?” he fretted.  What a great positive outlook.

I’m feeling ok overall.  Sitting in normal chairs and walking around for too long definitely gets painful and there are just a lot of strange sensations going on.  I went on maternity leave last week which has left me with mixed feelings- though being able to take a bath or nap in the afternoon has been really nice!  I’ve been trying to stay active in short bursts- I drove out to western MA 2 weekends ago for a  convention and did ok with the 18 hour day and 4 hours in the car, I helped cook Thanksgiving dinner, I went to a friend’s for games after Thanksgiving, went to Lowell’s Festival of Wreathes and winter festivities this Saturday with my mom and brother, went to Monday Night Board Game Night last night and stopped into work today for a couple of hours.  Trying to keep routines now before everything changes!

On my list for the hospital is my laptop so when the time actually comes, I can keep updates and journal my experiences!

So I’ve called 12/5 at 1:30 pm as the actual time- get into the pool now!