39w Update

Woo Hoo! My due date is only 1 week from today! Today we went to Travis’ Uncle’s wedding. It was nice to have a Saturday off for once. I don’t remember the last time I didn’t have to work on Saturday. It was a challenge keeping Trevor quiet during the ceremony. We kept shoveling cheerios into his mouth and trying different things to captivate his attention. Luckily the ceremony was short and he hardly made a peep. Everyone commented on how wonderful he was. There were 2 other little ones there that weren’t quite so quiet.

There were some older kids there that entertained Trevor with their antics. One girl especially kept Trevor occupied awhile by standing on the other side of the glass door and making faces at him and when he would put his hands on the glass she would jump back like he pushed her. He laughed so hard, I think he would have played this game all afternoon.

Gosh it was difficult to get some lunch in his tummy! I had him sitting on my lap and tried to get him to eat some chips and ham sandwich and he was doing so so. Daddy decided to add some potato salad to the plate. I had already tried a spoonful of it and he spit it out onto the table and pushed it away. Trevor doesn’t do so well with the spoon yet. He proceeded to pick the salad up with his fingers and deposit it on the table then smeared me with his potato salad hands. So he ate a little bun, spit out the ham, shoveled in the chips, and of course devoured the cake. And of course while I was trying to get lunch in his tummy, I was pretty unsuccessful in getting food in my very hungry tummy! I was happy when Trav brought in his stroller and strapped him in. Finally, I was able to get a little to eat!

During the reception I had a few contractions but it wasn’t anything different than what I’ve been feeling for the last month. The car ride home was another story. I had a few strong contractions. I lay down on the couch once we got home and timed them. They were coming every 9 minutes like clockwork. I’m thinking, tonight might be the night and that it would be pretty cool to have a baby on St. Patty’s day. :o) I called the midwife and put her on alert and she said to go to Labor and delivery if they got to be 5 minutes apart for about an hour. She told me to rest and take some Tylenol.

Contractions weren’t terribly strong or painful, just very uncomfortable. I finished packing my bag (yeah I’m a procrastinator) packed up my bathroom essentials just in case, uploaded pics off my camera so I’d have an empty memory card, charged the batteries in the cam corder and camera, charged our phones, and a bunch of other piddly stuff. All the while contractions stayed at 9 minutes.

Around 7:30pm I laid down to try take a nap, sure that we’d be heading to the hospital in a few hours as that’s about how long it took for the contractions to speed up with Trevor. I tossed and turned for awhile and finally fell asleep. When I woke up at 11pm I laid there for awhile waiting for a contraction to time. ~Sniff sniff~ they had stopped. Travis said maybe I shouldn’t have lain down and then they wouldn’t have stopped. My thinking is that it’s better if they are going to stop then stopping AFTER we got to the hospital.

So I’m a little sad that we aren’t heading to the hospital tonight but hopeful that these contractions have done something for dilating me. I have an appointment Monday afternoon so we’ll see. Last week I was dilated to 1 ½, the 2 weeks before that I was at a 1cm. I’m hoping for a 3 at least!

Hopefully tomorrow will be my last day of work for awhile. :o) Monday and Tuesday is my “weekend” So hopefully things will happen before I have to go back to work on Wednesday. I especially want it to happen next week as my Regional Manager is supposed to be visiting sometime next and I’d really like to have an excuse to not be there.

A big part of me is really nervous about leaving Trevor for a few days. ~sniff sniff~ He’s only been away from me overnight 1 time and that was long ago and daddy was home with him. He’s been really cranky and throwing a lot of tantrums lately. I wonder if he knows that things are changing or if he’s just entering his terrible two’s a little early. I’m not only nervous about leaving him but how he’ll deal with things. I know it will probably be a small period of adjustment for him and that he’ll grow to not remember life without her. But in the meantime she’s going to rock his little world big time and it makes me a little bit sad for him. :o(

On a lighter note… I typed up a “day in the life of Trevor” schedule type thing to assist Grandma and any other’s who will end up caring for him while I’m in the hospital and it’s nearly 3 pages long. LOL, I guess I went into a lot of detail! I just want there to be as much consistency in his life as humanly possible in the days that follow.

Anyway… that’s enough for me tonight. My fingers hurt from typing this and the schedule and it’s way past my bed time. Think happy thoughts for us!