Well, at least I hope it's the last post!
We'll be 40 weeks tomorrow and I'm getting soooo anxious to meet our son (still sort of weird saying that!) I can't remember if I mentioned it in my last post but we decided on a name: Zackery Greyson, and we'll call him Greyson! I'm excited to see who he looks like. I hope he has Zack's hair. I was born bald but Zack had the cutest fuzz :).
Of course, like all baby stories, thigns haven't gone quite as planned. My doctor, whom I've had since the beginning, told me in April that'd he'd be gone some time in June, but come to find out he meant he'd be gone for weeks 39 and 40 :(. I was pretty bummed about it at first, but really I'm ok with it. I had my first appointment with his back up doctor last Wednesday and I like him. He has "lady hands" lol, which I take to mean he's gentle. At least I hope so! Plus, I know for the most part you should care who your nurses are in the hospital, because they're the ones who'll be checking on you and hanging aroudn most often. BUT if Greyson decides to lead me on even further and doesn't come until next week, I'm pretty sure my original doctor will be back!
So as of last week, I had no cervical progress from the week prior. I was still 1cm and 70% effaced. Which is better the totally closed up and long still, but I had hoped to be a little more dilated. I know technically it doesn't mean anything really; a woman can walk around being 4cm for weeks before her baby comes and on the flip side a woman can be totally closed up until labor starts. But still, it's nice to know something's been happening. I've been having lots and lots of Braxton Hicks contractions. They aren't painful but they're pretty much constant now. And I've had more pressure since the baby's getting lower. Today's been the first day when I've thought that labor could be close. I just feel sort of "off", and my back's been achy and sort of crampy all day. I don't know. It could just be me wanting to see something that's not there yet. I do have another doctor's appointment set for Wednesday and am going to ask them their policies on induction. After all this time I guess I always figured I'd deliver early so induction was never something I really thought about. I can go 41 weeks but I'll be so mad if I have to go 42+! PLUS my Dad and Snoopy in on the 8th and will be here for 5 days. I'll be so sad if they come all the way out here and there's no baby to show them! Fortunately, I don't think that'll happen, but it's always a possibility.
All of the older moms in my life (well and I know a few younger moms, too) have been telling me that I have to nest first before the baby will come. They are all telling me that they scrubbed their kitchen floor like maniacs the day before they delivered. And they say it won't matter how clean the house is before that happens or how tired, etc, that'll I'll still do it. I just don't know! I feel like I've been nesting pretty much nonstop for the last couple weeks! I tell them I'm a sporatic nester. You know, I'll tackle one odd-ball project at a time. And what's more, is I've KEPT things clean, lol.... Those of you who know me well know that I'm pretty disorganized (though I CAN tell you where everything is!). I just can't see myself driving home from work (yep, still working) with an insatiable urge to scrub my ceiling. But maybe it'll hit me, and everyone can tell me they told me so. I also think that I might not get hit with the extra burst of energy since I've been working, then coming home and cleaning a little something and making dinner and then going to be only to wake up at 5am the next morning. Who knows?
I don't mean to sound like a super-mom-woman, that title I still reserve for my sister-in-law Amy, who worked HARD up until delivery of her last baby and then went back to work as soon as her job would let her. No. Last week I worked half-days and am planning on doing the same this week. I'm just so tired lately that I need a nap in the afternoon! Plus we hired a new lady to take over my spot so there's not a lot for me to do. I have to talk to Zack about it still, but I think this might be my last week there anyway (if I make it all week). And if Greyson still isn't here by next Thursday I'm not going to work since my dad will be here.
As for what we're planning on doing after the baby? I'm taking at least 3 months off from working, and then hopefully will find something part time (again, my mom might have a job for me where I could bring the baby, or there's another doctor's office in town who's expressed interest in hiring me, OR I know my current office would take me back, OR I'll try and find something in the evening so Zack can watch the baby while I'm out). I refuse to pay for DayCare though. Maybe I'll be eating my words, but we'll see. The only option I see where I would pay daycare is if I worked at this other office in town, since they only work Tues, Weds, Thurs, and Zack has Weds off anyway, so I'd only have to find something on Tues and Thurs. I need to make friends with more local mommies so we can swap kids when we have to work! I need to find a cool mommy group.... (*ahem Beth!* lol, we seriously need to get that going....)
My mom calls me at least 2x a day now, just to check how I'm feeling, and sometimes I'll call her an extra time. My poor mom has an unfounded fear that we're going to forget to call her when we go into labor. Seriously, what girl who has a decent relationship with their mom is going to forget to call her? We need our mommies when we become mommies! And she has this other fear that she won't hear the phone ring or something, so she's also given me the neighbor's phone numbers, just in case. lol....
Let's see, what else? I can't reach my toes anymore to paint them, so I've been splurging and getting pedicures. That's so nice! It'll probably be the last time for let's see, about 18 years? :D. Oh and I've bought a Cinch *sheepishly hides her face*. It was a little expensive, but all the other post pregnancy belly binders I looked at you had to buy a couple of sizes once your tummy starts shrinking, and this one is adjustable, so I thought it's worth it. And if it doesn't work, I'll sell it on ebay. TONS of girls buy these, I know for a fact. But if it DOES work, you best believe I'll be posting postpartum pictures of my belly.
To wrap up, we're all nervous, excited, anxious, ready, NOT ready, worried, happy, and just SO ready to meet this little person we've been thinking about for the last 9 months.
