38 Weeks!

It's about time for baby! I am 38 weeks and baby girl is hanging in there. Go figure! My contractions have become almost constant throughout the day, but only annoyingly intense in the evenings. We've had a few "false alarms" where I was in a lot of pain with contractions about 5 minutes apart, but then they just go away. I am exhausted. My cervix was unchanged yesterday at my 38 week appointment, so we decided to do a dose of prostin to ripen my cervix even more before we start the pitocin induction. So I am going in Wednesday night now instead of Thursday morning. Hopefully she will be here by Thursday afternoon, though I am still praying she decides to come on her own before then. I was so disappointed yesterday after he checked me and told me I was still 1cm dilated after being in so much pain all week. It is frustrating to know that I was off work and on bed rest for SO long and now my body just doesn't want to go into labor despite the constant contractions. I was definitely not this impatient with Calvin, but I just feel like I have been in early labor for weeks and my body is tired! We spent the day today finishing her room, doing laundry, organizing the house, and even putting up the Christmas tree. It's crazy to think that this time next week I won't be pregnant and we will have a little girl in our house. Calvin is excited and talks about baby sister a lot. My mom is coming home Wednesday and we are excited to spend a few days with her after baby gets here.

On another note, Calvin has been doing much better with potty training this past week. He is FINALLY pooping on the potty and we didn't have one accident today. I am still not brave enough to let him sleep in his underwear, so we will tackle that after we get settled with baby girl at home.

I will post pictures as soon as possible and Korey will try to keep everyone updated during the induction if things move slowly. 5 days and counting!