Am I for sale? Do I have a size?

I have a condition afflicting my skin. For weeks I didn't know what I was dealing with, but as the situation progressed the more concerned I became. After doing some research online we have discovered I have what are called "skin tags" on my body. The only kind of tag I had ever heard about was a price tag or a clothing tag. Apparently skin tags are fairly common in pregnant women. They are irritating and so ugly!! Mine luckily have stuck to the armpit area so they are not on display for the whole world to see. We found a picture of someone that had them on their eyelids and it looked so gross!! For those of you who do not know what a skin tag is, it is a skin growth that is between 1 mm and 5 cm long. Mine are all in the 1 mm range. They serve no purpose except to be ugly. I have noticed that they come and go, so I'm hoping that when the pregnancy is over they all just disappear forever!! I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and I am thinking of bringing up the fact that I don't like my skin tags and I should be allowed to be induced in order to get rid of them quicker. I'm sure my doctor will be understanding (too bad sarcasm doesn't come through in writing)!

Gettin' Myself In Shape!

I have been talking a lot about how much walking I've been doing and running the stairs at home with the laundry, but today I had my workout for the year! The weather has been poor in our neck of the woods and people are running behind. Well, I got to work this morning to find that the one and only person who has a key to turn on the elevators at our building had not made it in to work yet. So that left me with one option - the stairs. I work on the 7th floor of my building. Throughout my whole journey up the stairs I kept thinking that if I go in to labor I'm not going to be able to make it back down the stairs, and I was also thinking that I couldn't deliver the baby in the stairwell, even though I'd probably get my name in the paper which would be kinda cool. No labor symptoms yet though, so I don't know about all of these suggestions that are supposedly supposed to get labor going because nothin's working here. I thought for sure if nothing else worked then climbing 7 flights of stairs would surely get labor going. Ugh.

Getting Desperate!

I know that I still have 5 days to go, but I DO NOT want this child to come 1 day past the due date, so I've been doing everything I can to make sure that labor gets under way as soon as possible. Over the weekend I did a lot of walking around stores and my legs wore out before I was ready to give up. Unfortunately, that did nothing for me. I was up and down the stairs with laundry a ton of times and still nothing. At the advice of one of Ben's aunts we went bowling yesterday. At first I felt like my water could have broken just by picking up the bowling ball, but still nothing happened. I don't think that this child wants to be born. She has decided that she'll come when she's good and ready and not when it's convenient for me. The weather has turned very icy and windy which I've heard can induce labor (old wive's tale, I'm sure) but doesn't look like much fun to drive to the hospital in, but if it works I'm all for it. All for now, I've got to hit those stairs!!

Why Not Today?

I think that today would be a good day for the baby to be born. It is, after all, her original due date today! I have been feeling very confident that it won't be long until she decides to show her face, but as each day passes it makes me feel like she's never going to be born. Why does it have to take so long???

We're Ready

We are all set to go!! All we need is for this child to decide that she's ready to be born. The suitcase is packed and in the trunk of the car and Ben installed the carseat yesterday. We keep trying to coax the little one out, but she's just not ready yet. Everyday I predict that "today will be the day" but so far I've been wrong everytime. Maybe today!! I know that I have a due date for a reason, but I just don't care. We are so anxious to meet this child! I'll have to start rearranging the furniture to see if I can get labor started!!

There's definately a baby in there!! 

38 Weeks 

Baby's Room. 

Baby's room (a little messy still). 

Photo Update

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to let you know that I am having problems with the program I use to load photos onto this blog. I have photos of my belly and the baby's room that I'd love to share with you. I will keep on working on it and hopefully I'll figure out what the problem is : )

16 More Days

I had a pre-natal appointment yesterday with one of my doctor's nurse practitioners. She checked me out to see how I'm progressing. I am 80% effaced (I need to be 100% to deliver) and I am dialated to 2 cm. I'm thinking "Wow!! It didn't take much effort on my part to get to this point, so the rest of this should be pretty easy!!" However, people having been laughing when I tell them that. They must not have progressed as well as I am!! I asked if she could tell how soon I'll deliver, but she couldn't. Apparently labor and birth is not an exact science so I could be sitting with these same measurements for awhile or I could progress rapidly at any point. There is just no way to know for sure. Ben's frustrated that we can't have an exact answer. So maybe we'll have a baby by the end of the weekend or maybe we'll have a baby in a couple weeks. Either way we'll keep you posted!

The Waiting

I am going to make reference to a Tom Petty song called "The Waiting" in which the lyrics say "The Waiting is the hardest part." That should be my theme song now. I have heard over and over and over again that the last month takes the longest!! I have been trying to take it just one day at a time and think that every day I'm just one day closer, but then I start counting down how many days and weeks are left (2 weeks and 5 days) and that just makes it much harder to wait for. I'm getting so impatient and anxious for the big day!! I told Ben that hopefully the baby will take after me because I like to be on time or early for things, so maybe the baby will come early. I have a doctor's appointment this Wednesday and I, of course, have my fingers crossed for news that I could deliver early!! I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas, it just can't get here quick enough!!

It's All Coming Together!

Last night Ben finished painting the nursery!! It looks so good!! Since he didn't finish until late last night we are going to work on getting all of the little one's things moved in there tonight and tomorrow. I can't wait to get it all put together. It's so much fun putting together a baby's room. After this all we have to do is wait for her to get here. Hopefully she's not planning on being fashionably late!!

The Nursery

Okay, so I was looking back at my previous posts and I saw that at the end of September I wrote that we should be moving all of the furniture into the nursery in about "two weeks." I just have to laugh at that!! As a married woman I should have learned by now that when there is project in the works there is NO determined finish date. The room is coming along though. The walls have one coat of paint on them, the trim has all been refinished, and the floors have also been refinished. I'm going to go out on a limb with this and say that HOPEFULLY by this Friday I will be able to move everything into that room. I think that Ben should have plenty of time to get the rest of the paint up on the walls by then and that should do it. He knows that I'm getting very anxious about having the room completely ready before the baby comes so I do feel confident that the room should be ready for me by Friday. I just hope I'm not wrong.

Hee Hee Hee Hoo

We finished our weekend of Lamaze Class yesterday. I thought it was going to be mostly learning how to breathe and watching videos of women giving birth, but we also learned some relaxation techniques and how our loving and devoted husbands can help us get through what looks like is going to be the most painful and uncomfortable experience of our lives. No, I'm sure it will be just fine. I just can't believe how much closer we are getting to the due date!! As of right now I have 3 weeks and 6 days to go!! We took a tour of the birthing center for class too so that we could see how the rooms are set up and what all of the equipment is used for. We learned, thankfully, that all of the birthing rooms are completely soundproof. Kudos to the man or woman who came up with that idea!! Well since I have so little time left people keep telling me that I could go anytime (hopefully not until I'M ready), but I will keep you posted if anything exciting should start happening!!