Week 40: Yep, still cooking a baby!

Well I my due date. I'm still cooking a baby and there is no real leading indicator that baby is coming anytime soon. I was only 1cm dilated and 70% effaced. So progress was being made but nothing saying today. Which I knew but everyone else didn't quite recall that babies come when they want and if a baby comes you'll be informed otherwise quit asking if baby has arrived. No news is really no news. 

I was okay not going into labor today though. I actually had hoped it would be late Sunday or Monday or the following week as my least favorite doctor in the practice was on call today and Sunday. I really didn't want to encounter her upon delivery if I could prevent it. But after Sunday I was good to go. My favorite doctor was on call Monday and the rest of the week I knew who was on call and would have been okay with any of them. I would go back to the doctor on Monday when I was officially overdue for a nonstress test and Ultrasound. So for now we wait. 

Week 38: Are we done yet?

Since we knew our pre-baby days were coming to an end we tried to get out as much as possible. We went to the Precinct with my family as one of my must have pre-baby meals. We also took advantage of every other opportunity to get out of the house including dinner with friends, trivia, FC Cincinnati soccer games, etc.   

Other than keeping busy and my belly growing daily and everyone asking if baby had arrived yet the last few weeks were uneventful. I still was walking a ton and sleeping as much as I could. 

Week 36: New hobby- operation walk a baby out!

This week started the weekly doctors appointments and the start of some really long walks around the neighborhood. I was trying to get at least 10,000 in each day but at this point I was getting in 12-15,000 a day. I was at this point pretty bored as we had completed all of our before baby projects so I made walking as much as possible my new hobby. 

Baby is officially getting big. I have less and less space for the little thing and it was definitely telling me it was cramped inside!  I just felt totally uncomfortable in my own skin and I knew I had several weeks left!