Week 38

HOW FAR ALONG?    
38 weeks, 2 days.
Only 8 days to go (c-section is scheduled a few days before actual due date because baby is still breeched)

THE PLAN    
The section is scheduled for 11am. Pending everything goes well, the baby should be delivered, all checked and cleaned and me sown up by Noon at the latest.  At this point, expect a mass text from Michael to say mom & baby are healthy (God willing!)

I will be in recovery for 1 hour max. Thanks to the new hospital and their policies, we will be with baby the entire time (IF all is well and IF baby doesn’t need to go to the transition nursery or NICU).  During this hour, we’ll be partaking in a lil special time between just the 3 of us. I will also attempt the first feeding at this time (thanks again to the wonderful Woman’s Hospital and their excellent prioritizing to mom and baby – their mission is to have the baby to breast within 1 hour of delivery – c-section or not. Love this!)

After my recovery and when we are all settled in and comfortable, we are going to at that time invite the family into our room for Michael to do the big introduction. The intro to my family will come next – because of the distance, they will not be able to be at the hospital – so, virtual introduction it shall be.

Shortly thereafter, any of you wonderful friends who are available to be at the hospital that day will be welcomed into the room.  The majority of you (or shall I say 99% of you) that live out of town who won’t be at the hospital, expect to rec’v another mass text with pictures…..accompanied by name. Boy or Girl??? Ahhhhh

So….sometime around 1:30ish is when all of you will be ‘in the know.’   This time table will undoubtedly be off cue, but this way, at least y’all know what we’re thinking in terms of the rough plan for announcing the big news to everyone.  Also, for those of you who do plan to come to the hospital, I’d hate for you to be there at 11am, but not get to see us for hours after that. 

HOW AM I FEELING?

Emotionally:  I think I’m nearing the end of my freak out (anticipatory anxiety anyone?) and feel the excitement phase creeping along.

Michael?  He’s been more than excited for a while now.  His main concern is that we haven't picked the name yet!!!!  Ahhh. I cannot believe we're waiting til the last minute on that one!

Physically:  better than I’ve felt in 2 months!  This must be that last kick of energy pregnant women are flooded with in their last couple weeks.  (Granted those kicks of energy are followed by extremely tireness, but I’ll take it!).

I am sad to announce, however, that I have officially reached the end of my working out while pregnant rein.  I have not had a true “work out” in a week.  As I suspected they would, once hitting month 9, my workouts have been deduced to just walking Pepper every day (some days faster than others) with long stretch sessions afterward.  

I’ve been using those energy reserves for other things – like stocking the freezer with delicious, healthy meals like this:

TOTAL WEIGHT GAIN?

33 pounds.  Whew. Cutting it close with the 25-35 pound healthy gain range. Remember those pounds in the bank I wrote about early on?  Good thing! Because I’ve been rocking out 2 pounds a week playing catch up.  Have I mentioned how fun it is to tie my shoes?  I should have invested in those velcro ones we joked about, Reagan!!!

HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK?

Being finished (for the time being) on all house projects. There are still a few things to knock out (drapes in dining room, throw pillows for living room, pictures to fill frames in breakfast area, lots of things in the keeping room), but at this point, I’m over it.  Had a little productive/nesting weekend and am satisfied enough with the status to throw in the towel.  Sounds funny for that to be a highlight, but trust me – it is!  Peace of mind is priceless.

Speaking of…

OPERATION DECO – UPDATE

We finally finished painting our shutters and door. And by "we" I mean Michael!
You see, when we first moved in, the builder wouldn’t allow us to have the color choices we wanted, so we settled for a bad maroon’ish color that looked horrible with our bricks.  Bricks, that mind you, came out NOT looking like the ones we choose at all.  Anywho - it was time to repaint (due to normal weathering) and we received permission to paint them a darker shade to look a little better with our bricks. Here goes:

We also made a little further progress in the nursey.   (sorry...again, I can't figure out how to rotate the picture!)

 

Ole Pep – gotta get in on the action!!!

 

LOOKING FORWARD TO?

Enjoying our last week as a married couple sans kids?  Soaking up as much relaxing, quiet time as possible.  Since I’m not really capable of doing a whole heck of a lot and neither is Michael for that matter (his back is still recouping from an unfortunate incident with the tailgate trailer), we’ll probably be soaking up a lot of sofa time! 

 

Until next time....and by the way, the next time will more than likely be post baby!