We went to the ultrasound appointment yesterday and the baby is doing great, got a perfect score in fact. So that gave me a one week reprieve to go into labor on my own. I need to have the baby by next Wednesday or that is when the midwife wants to have a final induction/c-section conversation.
Prayers…prayers…prayers!! (no pressure or anything…)
All right…we need prayers. The baby and my body have made absolutely no progress toward labor whatsoever. Labor is, for whatever reason, not spontaneously happening on its own and it is starting to concern my midwife (and thus me!).
Tomorrow morning I’ve got an appointment for an ultrasound and non-stress test to find out if the baby is still doing well and just is camping out for a longer than normal period. We’ll also find out approximately how big the baby is too! This is actually a concern of the midwife’s, that the baby is really, really big and is not engaging in the pelvis…potentially because it can’t. In the medical world that means c-section. EEK!
So please say a prayer for this labor to begin, for the baby to be like 7 pounds and for things to progress naturally, albeit quickly!
My now five night ritual of contractions continued last night. Dave hasn’t gotten much sleep the past two nights because of me tossing and turning trying to get comfortable through contractions and then of course he’s wondering if it is real labor starting. I’m not sleeping much at night, but at least I can sleep during the day whenever a nap feels like a good idea.
Last night my dad called and said, “so the calendar says here that a baby is due today”. Yup, I’m just part of the 95% of gals who do not deliver on their due date.
So me and the incredible movable baby belly are just hanging out again today.
So I’ve been really bad about updating the blog lately due to fatigue and general impatience with a computer that was behaving slowly. The computer is fine now, but I’m still fatigued so updates will probably remain pretty random until after the baby is born and things settle down.
In baby news, there really isn’t any. Baby is doing great. I’m still doing fine. Due date is TOMORROW!! I have been having contractions, but they are either far apart or stop after a couple of hours. Let me put it this way, we’ll have a baby by August 9th because that is probably the last day my midwife would let me go past my due date.
Today Dave and I are actually taking a day at home to ourselves!! Probably one of our last for a long time. We’ve been busy running baby errands or generally getting ready for weeks now. I think our work has paid off though and we’re pretty ready…or as ready as you can be for a first baby!
Prayers are totally appreciated these days. Especially for a safe, natural and healthy delivery of a healthy, happy baby!
Every once and a while God seems to like to reach out, grab a hold of me by the heartstrings and remind me of something. So today I’m reading through some blogs I like and came across this quote:
IT is wholly impossible to live according to Divine order, and to make a proper application of heavenly principles, as long as the necessary duties which each day brings seem only like a burden grievous to be borne. Not till we are ready to throw our very life’s love into the troublesome little things can we be really faithful in that which is least and faithful also in much. Every day that dawns brings something to do, which can never be done as well again. We should, therefore, try to do it ungrudgingly and cheerfully. It is the Lord’s own work, which He has given us as surely as He gives us daily bread. We should thank Him for it with all our hearts, as much as for any other gift. It was designed to be our life, our happiness. Instead of shirking it or hurrying over it, we should put our whole heart and soul into it.
— James Reed, Joy and Strength for the Pilgrim’s Day by Mary Wilder Tileston, p. 39 The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
ARGH! Lately, I’ve been using my tiredness and body aches as an excuse not to keep up with things, especially around the house. Now, I know better. But this quote reminded me that even in the everyday stuff I am supposed to do it with excellence and cheerfulness. Not perfection…only God is capable of that. But with excellence and cheerfulness because I’m doing the work God wants me to do.
Okay, I truly am not a summer sun person because I really, really don’t like being hot. This “summer” has been so horribly rainy with just enough humidity in the air to make it mostly yucky, but with temps that don’t go beyond like maybe 75 on a “hot” day. So today, I’m actually relishing in the sun and warmth. I never thought I was one of those folks effected by daylight, but today I even feel better as well has feeling like I have a little pep to my emotional state.
I took a little mini-drive this morning with the sunroof open, came home and even energetically put the final coat of paint on the baby’s dresser/changing table. The dresser is basking in the sun drying right now. This is be a happy surprise for Dave when he gets home. He doesn’t like painting. And as willing as he is to do things for me to make me happy and keep me from getting too pooped these days, I know he’ll be thankful he doesn’t have to tend to that last coat of paint.
I’ve noticed something new with both of my cats. Bailey spends almost all his day either in the same room, next to me or sitting on me. But lately, he has been REALLY attentive and needs picking up all the time. Riley even has started sitting on my lap. He is not normally a lap cat. He’s a walk by for a petting, briefly sit near you for additional petting and then move along to sit elsewhere and sleep type of cat. Lately, if I sit in Dave’s chair in the living room I will frequently find myself with Bailey draping himself across my belly and Riley sitting along side me. Dave and I can’t figure out if the cats know “something” is amiss with me or if this is just a new needy phase they both entered at the same time. It sure will be interesting to see these two guys with the baby.
Well, the sun is still shining (a new 4 hour record!!!) and I am still feeling pretty good so I’m going to go clean my living room and hopefully dining room before my body aches too badly to move.