I’ve officially moved to the couch at nights and I’ve gone from not sleeping at all to sleeping for a few hours. I’m really uncomfortable and finding it hard to get into any comfortable position. I’m not allowed to lay on my back and I can’t lay on my belly, so I’m forced to pick a side. The problem with picking a side, is that if I lay on my left (the desired side) the baby kicks into the couch all night and it’s extremely uncomfortable, not to mention that I feel like I’m squishing him. I can lay on my left, but then my face is buried into the couch and it’s kind of awkward. So, I’ve started laying sort-of on my left/sort-of on my back in the “crook” of the couch. This is accompanied by a plethora of pillows, blankets and of course, Anakin. Not only am I uncomfortable, which is making it difficult to sleep, my brain is also on overload and racing thoughts are preventing me from getting any rest. Lately I’ve been spending hours reading the baby boards, researching cloth diapers, looking at baby names, thinking about photography props and packing (and re-packing) my hospital bags in my head. Then, when I do finally fall asleep, I find myself dreaming about breastfeeding cats.
This week Glen turned 27 on the 28th, which coincidentally, was the birth date of my new niece, Evelyn. Forever Glen and Evelyn will share a Birthday. Glen and I made dinner at home and I got a small cake for us to share. I gave Glen his Birthday gifts which was a nice pair of slippers and a “baby manual” which is an amusing book that’s written like a car manual. He thought it was hilarious and he could easily relate to how it was written. I also gave him this adorable Dad-to-be card (that I actually bought over a YEAR ago and what I had planned to give to him when I found out I was pregnant).
Over the weekend, I went into Nesting overdrive. Here is what I got accomplished: Cleaned the kitchen, went shopping for a TV stand, Did 4 loads of laundry/folded/put away, vacuumed house, scrubbed hard wood floors, vacuumed new basement carpet, removed remodeling tools and trash from the basement, filled up our giant hutch with books & DVD’s, scrubbed fireplace and window sills in basement, assembled pack n play and bouncer, moved baby items to nice clean basement, cleaned out bedroom junk drawer, made homemade strawberry lemonade and baked a peach/blackberry pie from scratch. The house looks nice and the basement remodel is progressing nicely.
My pie
Basement Progress
I tried many “Old Wives Tales” over the weekend to help bring on labor, and it didn’t do much at all. I had spicy Thai curry, Pineapple, stayed really active, and took a hot bath. This morning I had my weekly doctor’s appointment and I did make some progress from the previous week, but it was very little. My cervix is currently dilated to 2 centimeters (it was stretched by the doctor to 2 cm, and it was slightly painful/uncomfortable accompanied by some cramping), and I’m 75% effaced, which simply means that my cervix is softening and preparing for labor. So, when can I expect this little one? Well, that’s still completely up in the air! Really it could be any day now, but from this morning’s progress report, it seems likely that I will go past my due date. As of now, I have an induction scheduled for 8/11/2011 at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. So, I will either go into labor before or on this date. Either way, in less than 2 weeks from today, I’ll be a Mother to a beautiful baby boy!
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