Just an Update

I’ve gotten several calls this week from family and friends asking how everything is going so I figure it must be time for a quick blog update.  As of this Friday (Oct. 8^th) I will be 38 weeks.  Which means only two short weeks until my due date.  It’s hard to believe it’s almost here!  As of yesterday, I am still not dilated or showing signs of having her anytime in the real near future.  She is head down, in position to be born, but that’s about it.  My doctor said, “Boy you have a small little baby in there!”  She estimates that she currently weighs about 5 ½ pounds.  A small baby is good because I’m a small person and would really prefer not to have to have a c-section. 

I’m still feeling really pretty good.  Compared to the sick feeling I had the entire first trimester, the third trimester has been a breeze.  I should knock on wood because I don’t want things to go downhill from here, but overall right now I have very little to complain about.  I still wake up by 6:00am each morning to go swim laps for 40 minutes and then I pretty much stay busy doing whatever I need to do throughout the day.  My biggest complaint would have to be the lack of sleep that I’ve experienced.  I have to get up for the restroom a lot and my back hurts at night, so I tend to be up at least once every two hours and sometimes I’m not able to fall back asleep.  Charles said that is God’s way of preparing my body to get up to take care of the baby and I have no doubt that he is right about that.  Some nights are better than others which means some days I feel better than others.

The baby room is all ready, our bags are packed for the hospital, we graduated from our childbirth class, so now we’re just waiting for our little girl to arrive.  For whatever reason, I just don’t feel that she has any plans to make an early appearance.  In fact, it’s hard for me to believe that she could be here in as short of time as two weeks from now.  Maybe she’ll just wait and be a November baby like her daddy.  :)