Waiting

We are at 39 weeks, finally! To me, it feels like it's been a lot longer than 9 months since we found out about our little bean. I'm pretty sure I peed on that stick like a decade ago! And now that we're in the home stretch it feels like time is moving at a snails pace! Or maybe it's just stopped all together.

This last month has been a bit more emotionally taxing on me. Since week 36, our doctor said we're at the stage where baby could come any day. And I spend most of my time over analyzing every bodily function and movement that I feel. I've never had contractions before (to state the obvious), so I wonder if that sharp shooting pain was a contraction. Hmm, maybe not. But maybe that cramp was! Well, I'm not sure about any of it, but I do know that my body's been doing lots of things it didn't used to, so somethings gotta be happening!!

Well as of our latest appointment yesterday, we're still waiting on dilation. We have NONE. I was pretty disappointed to hear that because baby's arrival is so highly anticipated. I've been trying to cheer myself up by telling myself that he's still growing into a happy, healthy little boy and that he really loves his little home that I made for him (but seriously kid, if you saw your nursery you'd be kicking to get out).

If the little man decides to continue laying low, we will plan an induction for May 2. But keep your fingers crossed and hope for dilation before that as I heard labor is much more painful that way.

In the meantime, if there's anything going on I'll update the blog. I'm now at the point where my phone calls are misinterpreted as being a birth announcement whenever my name appears on the caller ID. And then people just become disappointed to find out that I was only calling to talk :-P