39 Weeks

Not much has happened this week. For Christmas, Levi and I kept it pretty low key. We went out to see “We Bought a Zoo” Christmas Eve then opened our presents Christmas morning. We didn’t set up any decorations this year, for fear that the baby would come and we would have to take them down afterwards. I felt kind of sad that we didn’t have a tree, so I woke up really early on Christmas morning and drew this on the back of some wrapping paper.

We went to church and had a really nice musical program, then took Tilly to the dog beach. I think Levi was pretty excited to be able to tell people that he went to the beach on Christmas. J It was kind of funny seeing how protective Tilly was of us. She normally NEVER barks, but whenever another dog came close she ran after it barking her little head off. Silly thing. We weren't sure how she would do with the water, but she seemed to like it just fine. We went to our friend’s house that evening for a delicious dinner and games.

 I saw my midwife on Thursday and talked about how hard we’ve been trying to induce labor. Really, we’ve been trying EVERYTHING since Christmas to get this baby to be born in 2011. I wanted to know if we’d made any progress, so my midwife checked me (they don’t normally do that until 40 weeks at this office). She said I was thinned out 40% and opened up 1 cm, which is very normal at this stage. She also stripped my membranes (another thing they don’t do until 40 weeks here) just to give a little boost to the whole induction process. I was pretty crampy for 24 hours after that, but nothing regular and it subsided pretty quickly yesterday. L One cool thing, though, is that while she was checking me she was touching the baby’s head. I don’t know if that’s even abnormal or anything, but it hit me just how close he is to entering the world and being with us.

Like I said, not much has been happening. It’s just sort of a waiting game at this point. I’ve had a cold all week that finally started to clear up yesterday (yay!) and I bought some things to decorate the baby’s wall. I didn’t really care for the most part that we don’t have another bedroom to use as a nursery, but I feel kind of bad about not doing anything to decorate, so I’ll be decorating the wall in our bedroom that has his pack ‘n’ play against it. I’m pretty excited about it!