38 Weeks

Oh dear, I'm big.   Lots of contractions here, last night they just kept coming and I thought I might be headed to the hospital eventually, but once I laid down they went away.  I guess we are about ready for Jellybean to get here.  Most of the bags have been packed except for last minute stuff, I have a list of at least 4 people I can call to watch Pumpkin until Granddad and Grandma get here and I've got all his clothes washed.  Doesn't seem like he will be here next Monday, but I guess it will happen one way or another.   Still got a lot of back and hip pain.  As the Dr. said last week, "he is just laying on your spine".  She also thinks a lot of the pain is from the fact that he is big.  I told her I was hoping he would weigh less than Pumpkin (9 lbs 1 oz) and she basically said she thought he would be bigger.  Oh great, I'm giving birth to a toddler!!  At least my platelets are going back up.  I have the same issue this time as last time in that when I'm pregnant, my platelets go down and once I deliver they go back up to normal.  It is not life threatening, but if they go too low, since I am having a c-section the anesthesiologists won't do the surgery without knocking me out.   They were almost to that point a week ago, but we got the prayer warriors going and the numbers are doing better.  I will be checked again this week and hopefully I will be out of danger of sleeping through my son's birth.

37 weeks

I've made it to 37 weeks, only 2 more weeks until my c-section is scheduled on February 27th.  I'm pretty uncomfortable and can't move around too much because of hip and back pain.  It will be worth it to see his little face, but I do look forward to being able to turn over in bed without feeling like a beached whale.  At my Dr. appointment last week there were no signs of labor, no dilation, etc.  My pastors wife was sure I wouldn't make it through the week and she says surely it will happen this week.  She doesn't know how stubborn my family can be.  Pumpkin was 12 days late, I don't know why this one would want to come out any earlier.  But, he has been served his eviction notice so his time in there is limited.  He is still a busy boy, especially in the late evening.  He keeps us entertained with his gymnastic movements just like his big sister did.

A couple weeks ago, a friend of ours at church threw us a baby shower.  Unfortunately, A and Pumpkin didn't get to go as she spent a couple hours in the emergency room the night before with croup.    She is fine, but she had to have some breathing treatments and some steroids while at the hospital.  She is a croupy girl, it seems to go straight to croup when she gets a virus so I usually keep medicine at home, but had used the last of it over Christmas while we were at Auntie T's and Uncle N's.  Anyway, I now have a refillable prescription for the meds so we hopefully won't end up in the emergency room again.  Here is a picture of the cake topper.  It just cracked me up and I keep it by my sink and it makes me smile (it's made of some kind of plastic - not sugar).  Mmmm, the cake was very tasty, too.