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“Your baby rivals the average rutabaga in weight — about 1 1/2 pounds. (Length: 13 1/2 inches, head to heel.)” – Babycenter.com

Alright, here it is people, the nitty gritty, blow by blow of the hours leading up to the birth of our beautiful baby boy. Proceed with caution – there may be more information than you want. 

Saturday:
40 weeks & 3 days pregnant

I really needed to get out of the house, so when we were invited to hang out at the beach while our friends surfed, I jumped all over it. We packed up a quick lunch, took the dog and spread a blanket on the sand. It was so relaxing and I’m glad we did it. It was there that via my Facebook iPhone app. I found out our friends John & Angel had their baby that morning. I was initially pretty jealous because that was her due date and I had already gone well past mine. It wasn’t fair. I was ready to no longer be pregnant, and most of all I was ready to meet my baby.

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I had always had 2 different dates in my head as to when this baby was due. Looking back I’m not sure if I got the Sept 8 date only from a baby website, or if an actual medical person also told it to me. The other date I was given was Sept 10, and that is the date that the midwife is going by. SO… I’m only going on 2 days late now, not the 4 as originally thought. Which all in all I guess doesn’t matter much. It at least gives me more time before they medically induce, which is good. I was just so attached to the Sept 8 date for some reason. Gotta let it go!

Today I have someone from Sapana Acupunture (in Berkeley) coming over to induce me. The midwife yesterday gave us the go ahead to get started on that. At this point in the pregnancy, the concern is that the placenta might be running out of nutrients and wearing thin, and the sac running low on amniotic fluid. So early next week I have an appointment to determine how everything is holding up. They will do this through fetal heart monitoring, and ultrasound. We are all hoping that the baby comes before that appointment. 

My friend Houston had a dream last night about Sept 13. Although he has been pushing for a Libra (Sept 23 can you believe that!?), 9/13 = good strong mexican power numbers, so he’s on board with that. I could do Sept 13! And with the acupuncture, perhaps I will!

40 weeks.

Today is officially the baby’s due date. So far today, no baby. I did however have a single contraction at 5:43 this morning. It hurt way more than I thought contractions were going to. I waited up for another 45 min or so to see if there was another one, then fell back asleep. So either I slept through some more contractions, or that was it for this morning.

I just ate some granola with fruit and the baby is squirming away. Hopefully he’s practicing his entrance speech or something useful to being born.

Here is a morning pajama photo of the belly on its due date:

Eye yi yi, what a day!  

Eventually I was hooked up to the fetal heart monitor for about an hour when it was determined mother and baby were just fine.  phew!  So that is super good news, but a long day.

39 Weeks.  

The days just keep ticking by.

Yesterday I thought I was never going to be able to make it another week (much less 3), but today I feel like it might be possible. Everyday is different. Today I even organized crafty supplies and cleaned off my desk. I also got started on a new screen printing design. I’ll post it tomorrow once the screen has dried and I can print something. 

I still haven’t packed my bags. For some reason I keep putting it off, like its wasted energy or something. Its difficult to even know what I’ll need as far as clothing. I think I might just be happiest in a hospital gown for a few days. Then as long as I have my baby and my toothbrush, I’m good to go!

37 weeks

Today is 36 weeks! Pretty exciting. We are getting down to the nitty gritty now. We waited a bit long to hire a doula, but we still have a few options. We are setting up meetings with them now. Aside from that, I am pretty sure we are ready. We at least have all the “stuff”, and what a lot of stuff it is! I realize we didn’t have to get it all before the baby comes, but it just seemed easier to have it off my mind and to be able to not leave the house for the next 2 months, if thats what fancied me. 

Things to do this week (baby related):

Pack my bags, make sure the car seat fits in the car, take professional pregnancy photos, finish doing baby laundry, hang decorative robots

According to Baby Center…

“Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. He’s shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected his skin during his nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of his first bowel movement.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term.” Yay!

 

35 1/2 weeks

post dinner photo (tired and stuffed like a christmas pig)

The restaurant printed up a couple menus just for us…

The meal was delicious, and I somehow found room for 3 courses and glass of Navarro Vineyards Gewürztraminer grape juice.