Slacker...

I feel like such a slacker...for multiple reasons...first, I should have written this post before now to let everyone know how my doctors appointment went. SO SORRY!

The second reason I feel like a slacker is because I am being forced to continue with this whole "resting" thing...it is taking everything in me to chill out as that is not my normal state. My house needs to be cleaned, I haven't worked out in almost 2 weeks now, dinners need to be made and my job still needs to be done...however, I do want what is best for my baby and so I am fighting all of my normal urges to go at break-neck speed to get everything done and just..."rest."

The doctor said everything looks good, but I have continued to have contractions over the past week so they said they would feel better if I would take the next week and continue to work from home and take it easy. Next week will officially be 37 weeks and full term for my little boy so I am hoping then that they will tell me to knock myself out and do whatever I want...but we'll see how that goes :-). The next doctors appointment is Weds afternoon and I get my last ultrasound and they'll check my dialation at that point, etc.

I asked her if there was anything that I could do about the serious rib cage pain I have been having (I think my friend Merritt and I must have been seperated at birth as we seem to have very similar pregnancies, seriously Merritt - we might be related :-)...she said a heating pad for now and delivery is the cure. One of the nurses suggested it would get better after the baby dropped...I then informed her that Ty is in 0 position so I am pretty sure he can't go any lower! I feel kind of bad for the little guy...he's been like that for at least a week now and he is measuring normal size for a 36 week old baby, actually he's been measuring bigger than average...and yet my uterus is still measuring small...poor guy is stuck in a womb that is three weeks too small! It is no wonder he wants out of there!

Thanks for everyone's prayers - please continue to pray that he stays patient (and mommy does too). We need to make it to next week and then he can come join us and leave that cramped room for the one his mommy has been diligently working on!