39 weeks...

Today is the 39 week mark. The last couple of weeks have been busy as far as the every day family life goes, but as far as baby news goes...nothing. sigh. lol. We had a great visit with my uncle Greg last weekend. He came up with my Aunt Nancy and Uncle Steve. It was the 1st time in 8 mos that I've seen him.  He looked really good, but sounded different at times.  It was strange to see my uncle but at times to listen to him and know that he was a different Greg.  I can't wait to see him again though...hopefully in the next couple of weeks.

Dawn has had an exciting week this week as far as school goes. The entire school got to go Valleyfair for a day this past week.  I thought it was just her grade, but it was the entire school had the option.  She had so much fun.  It was great to see the sparkle in her eyes from having so much fun.  She decided to be in Marching Band this summer. So it will be interesting how that goes, I think she'll have a blast. I remember how much fun it was.  She also this week go word that she is going to be a WEB leader next year.  It's a special mentor type position for the 7th & 8th graders to be for the new students and for the incoming 6th graders. It's really cool. Out of 600+ students in her grade, over 300+ students applied to be one, and it was narrowed down to less then 20 students I believe. So it's really cool that she got selected.

As far as progress goes in regards to the pregnancy...it's coming. Slowly.  I swear I think that Peanut is a girl, since things are progressing so slowly. My due date is officially 7 days away counting today.  And after seeing Dr. B on Thursday - we have a game plan.  If peanut doesn't show by next weekend, we talked about an induction date of either the 1st or 2nd week of June.  So either way by June 12th (I'll be 42weeks along) we will have a new addition to the family.  To be honest the last couple of weeks have been tough.  I feel like I'm having hot flashes all the time, I'm nauseated, feel like a beached whale and the list goes on.  I am having contractions, but they aren't regular...not the Braxton Hicks contractions.  I've made some progressive changes down there since I was in the hospital a couple of weeks ago, but it's been disappointing at the pace.  When I start Dr. B on Thursday, I know have permission to do stuff naturally to encourage labor.  But like he said, if labor isn't ready to start it won't go.  He even tried stripping my membranes on Thursday.  Oh lordy! Was that uncomfortable. No I didn't think it was going to be pleasant, but I did not expect it to hurt either. But as you can tell, it didn't work.

I've been drinking my red raspberry leaf tea almost every day, and squatting when the contractions do hit and get strong, so we'll see if that will work. I'm going to try a few other things this coming week to see if things will start. Ever since Thursday though, things are getting more and more uncomfortable. It would be great to hear at this coming week's appointment that I'm a 4 or 5cm instead of just 3cm. Next week would be a great time for this peanut to show, because my 3 main daycare kids are gone for the week. But as we all know the peanut will arrive on God's time, not mine.

God Bless