Oh boy, I think I'm finally ready to admit that I'm sick of being pregnant. I was feeling pretty good until the last few days, now all the aches and pains are setting in. I went in for my 39 week check up this morning and was hoping that I had progressed enough to be told "it won't be long" but not so much. I have been dilated to 3, 70% effaced since last Thursday and nothing new today. I was hooked up to a fetal monitor for about 40 minutes today to make sure that baby is OK, I haven't been feeling a lot of movements yesterday and this morning and the heart rate was lower than it normally is. My blood pressure was quite a bit higher today but not high enough to induce. During the first 10 minutes on the monitor the baby's heart beat only spiked once, I guess they were wanting it to happen twice in under 10 minutes so they "shocked" my tummy and that got things rolling. Still no movement but the heart rate increased and all was well so eventually I was sent away. No contractions were detected during the monitoring either.
I was told last week that this babies tend to be like their siblings as far as due dates go, I had Kaitlyn at 39 weeks and 2 days, if we follow that schedule I expect this little one to be along Saturday, we'll see!
I feel almost ready. I started a new position at work and will be working from home in August, just doing the last minute things to get ready for that. The nursery has been cleaned out and the crib is back up. I didn't unpack many clothes because we're not sure if we need to be shopping for blue or unpacking the pink. We bought a yellow coming home outfit a few weeks ago and some plain white onesies, it's so hot that this baby will probably live in onesies for a while anyway. The car seat was put in the car two weeks ago and Kaitlyn has finally adjusted to be crowded out in the back seat, I think she is looking forward to being able to poke the baby from her seat, she was moved into the center so we could leave room on the edge for the dog. Hopefully that works out otherwise she'll get moved behind the driver's seat and the dog just won't be able to leave the house!
Tis the season for pregnant women, I know about 16 people pregnant now and almost 10 that have already had babies this year, it's scary to know that I'm next! I'm past the anxiety of being pregnant and raising a child, right now I'm focused on the actual labor. Hoping that everything goes as smoothly as it did with Kaitlyn. I love my doctor so I really hope she is on call at the hospital when I deliver however I know she is only there next Wednesday, I'm hoping it doesn't take that long for me to go into labor.
