Due Date Eve

    Jared made the comment this morning that today is our Due Date Eve! Tomorrow is my due date, though I am not holding my breath she'll come before or on that day. 

    She seems to have a mind of her own. During the day she seems quite calm and fairly normal. Then once it gets to the point I want to sleep, she decides to conduct her own Zumba classes in my stomach! Last night, she was going nuts for about an hour straight!

    But we are very excited for our baby girl to come, whenever that may be! I have another doctor's appointment for Thursday, if she isn't here yet. They'll check to see if it's safe for me to go any longer past my due date. Depending on what the doctor says, I may be induced Monday, the 16th. So no matter what, she should be here at the latest the 17th! Unless they decide I can go further past my due date. 

    I'm not patient enough to go any further than tomorrow. We've been dying for her to come for a week! I'm ready to be done being pregnant. I miss being able to bend over. Every time I squat down, it's almost impossible for me to stand up straight for the next hour!

    For the past few days we've had fun trying to get her out though. We've done the Eggplant Parmigiana from Scalini's, which is famous for putting women into labor and then delivering within 48 hours. I've vacuumed the whole apartment. We walked for almost 3.5 miles. For me being 9 months pregnant, that's a pretty good distance for me!

    We're still taking pictures, documenting the pregnancy. I'm still not very large, compared to other women, but I feel pretty stinking big. I only like pictures from my neck up...and even then I don't like half the pictures. But we do have a good one for Easter.  

I love Jared's Easter tie. It's yellow and blue!

    We also had a yummy Easter dinner. Ham, deviled eggs and rolls. Nothing too extravagant, but delicious and we have leftovers! 

We're trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the ham. Last night we put it in our mac-n-cheese. Tonight I'm going to attempt chicken cordon bleu, if this baby doesn't come first. 

    But, I have to keep telling myself, she won't come when I want her to. She'll come when she wants (unless it's the 16th, then she's coming out!).

3 AM

    For the past few nights, I have woken up around 3 AM each morning and find myself unable to sleep. It's getting really annoying. Poor Jared, I think, is getting pretty sick of it too. 

    Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations for helping me sleep better? I don't eat or drink right before bed, I make sure I'm in comfy clothes and I sometimes fall asleep quickly. 

    But sure enough, it's the third night in a row where I am up and about at 3 AM!

    I will also accept suggestions and recommendations of things to do at this terrible hour. Usually after being up for a while, I get hungry and need a snack. I just ran out of yogurt. Any ideas for a good snack?

    Being able to get back to sleep quickly and staying asleep will also help Jared. My tossing and turning only makes the night worse for him. I tried cuddling with him one night, but my arm around him just made him dream of a cat jumping on him. His scared reaction about scared me right off the bed!

    I would appreciate any comments anyone has for me! Even if they are silly or out of the ordinary! I just need a little help :) 

It's April!

    I can't believe it is April already! This pregnancy seems like it has gone by so quickly! Which is probably a good thing. I didn't have many of the pregnancy woes that usually make the trimesters feel like eternity. These last few weeks might seem to take forever though. 

    With the baby room pretty much done, my packing list for the hospital bag done and the countdown chain dwindling down to the last handful, I'm running out of things to keep me busy!

    People at work ask all the time when I am due, and how much longer I have. It's hard to not notice this belly when I walk around at work. It's so crazy saying I'm a week and a half away from my (first) due date! (If we go by my second due date I got from the doctor office here, we still have a little bit)

    Work keeps me busy and distracted, which is good. But they haven't made me a schedule yet for the month of April, with the fact I can have the baby at any moment now! I just have my schedule for the first week, but after that, I'm up in the air :) We'll see what the doctor says this week about me working...

    I have to be a little picky about when I work. It's nice when Jared can drop me off in the morning and I can walk home if I don't work til closing. And I'll work Saturdays because they are a partial day and not usually too stressful. 

    If this baby comes late, I'm going to be pulling at my hair for her to come. But right now, being in the same month as my due date is kinda freaking me out! April wasn't supposed to be coming along for another few weeks! Now it's here and the time til the baby comes is just getting closer and closer!

    A week from Wednesday is my due date. Oh my goodness. We'll see when she decides to come though. I really hope she doesn't wait too long. We are so excited to see her! And we have to see her before we decide on a name. Having a no-name baby is a little sad. But we'll manage!