38 wks...Will he ever come out??

Now, I know I have no right to complain at 38wks about being tired of pregnancy. I know there are plenty of people that have had to go over their 40wks and be induced. I also know that things could be worse... (I won't mention what those "worse" things are for fear of women who have never had babies are reading this and would be completely horrified). I do feel lucky that my pregnancy has been hassle and issue free, besides a few aches and pains that are to be expected.

Part of what aggravates me is the fact that my midwives are still argueing about my actual due date. Originally, it was Oct 16th. I had an ultrasound at 18wks and they changed that due date to Oct 25th...ok.... I can handle that. When I went back to the midwives they said that wasn't right, that we needed to go by the 16th....ARRRGGGG. SO this whole time I have been going by the later date to keep my brain accepting of the later time frame -just in case it was, in fact, correct - but in the back of my now pea-sized brain I keep putting myself one week ahead. This all increases the frustration.

Oh yeah, the other part is that I am 3cm dilated, 90% effaced and at -2 station. For those of you that don't know what that means...it means I am about to drop a baby at anytime!! So wish me luck, pray for my sanity and that this baby decides he is not that comfortable where he is ;-)

37 weeks and getting ANTSY

The title truely says it all...;-) Nick and I are just waiting at this point to find out what our little guy is going to be like.

36 wks and Still Smiling....Barely

Huge, huge, HUGE...that's the one word to describe the past week- and the following weeks, I am sure. Little man is ready to come soon. To say that we are ready for him would be, well, it would be false ;-) We're getting there though!!

Here is the most current picture:

34wks...Good Lord!

We are getting to that point now where every little pain, ache, contraction makes you wonder... 'is this it??' Slowly, but surely, we are getting things in order around the house. All the neutral clothes that Siena had are now out of storage and arranged in drawers by size. New pump tubing has been purchased (for the breast pump) and we have a place to put him if he decides he would like to sleep...doubtful, I know ;-)

So, we are getting there. Now, if only we had a name for him....

Getting Siena Ready for Baby

I have a lot of friends who have recently had babies and since we have our own arrival coming somewhat soon I thought it would be a great idea to expose Siena to some *little* babies. (Also, I love hanging out with my friends - who needs any other excuse than that??). Here are a couple of pics from one visit - we had a great time...

Siena trying to figure out who our visitor was


Who do we have here??


Siena saying "baby!!!"