Week 40

Here we are in week 40 and no baby yet. I had my last appt yesterday and I haven't really progressed at all since the last check. I was told that they will try to do an induction on either Friday or Saturday if he doesn't come before then. I am not too happy about this development but I did eat spicy food on Monday. I had yummy Thai food and I walked around the mall for about 40 minutes. Today, I walked around the lake which is about 2 miles and then went grocery shopping and ran other odd errands. I am trying everything that I can to avoid induction, so we'll see what the rest of the week brings.

Week 39

This week I had my appt on Friday and the baby is still growing as expected. No real contractions yet and I am just hoping that I will not have to be induced. The midwife said that they will continue to monitor until 41 weeks 3 days. So he still has a few more days to get here on his own.

I have the hospital bag 95% packed and all of his clothes washed and most of them put away. I still have more to do though so we'll see how it goes.

Ori has been in summer school this week and it has truly been nice. The only problem is that when she is not at home all I want to do is sleep. Not very productive at all. My energy seems to be only in the mornings.

The great excitement this week was that Ori got her teacher and class assignment. I don't know why this makes me so happy but it does. It looks like she will have the teacher that most parents rave about and her good friend will also be in her class. I hope it turns out to be a good arrangement for her. There are only 19 kids in each class which is also nice.

I also took advantage of a nice sale on the uniforms and picked up a few more things. I am glad it is mail prefer so I can finish up even after the baby arrives without making the trek to the mall. My only concern is that it will fit once school starts. Growth spurts can be so unpredictable.

Week 38

This week we finally got our hospital tour. It was not really what I expected. They kind of went over the rules and then took us to a birthing room. The rooms are single occupancy and include a private bathroom and shower. The rooms are also fairly big. I was happy to hear that they strive to keep you in these rooms rather than the postpartum rooms which have a shared shower facility. They only use the postpartum rooms if they do not have enough space and then if they are really strapped they make you share a postpartum room. I hope I get a birthing room and I get to spend as little time as possible in the hospital. Even though the rooms are nice, I really am not a fan of hospitals.


This week the doctors asst brought up that ugly I word... Induction. Since I have no real progress she just informed me what the office's policy was. I hope it does not come to that.

I also started maternity leave this week as well. So far so good. Nothing has come up which I think means I prepared them well for my departure. I am still addicted to my phone though. I guess old habits die hard.

On Friday, they had a nice baby shower for me at work. People just came down and had some cake as I opened presents. It was really nice and relaxing. Unfortunately, since it was on a Friday there were a lot of people who weren't there but it was nice for them to throw me something.

Then on Sunday, my friends threw me another baby shower. It was a tea that was so nice. I really enjoyed it and I think the guests did too. We got to drink some amazing tea and eat some great scones and tea sandwiches. My favorite was the chicken pecan sandwich. Lovely!

Ori also started her classes for dance. She is taking a rehearsal class, tap class, jazz class and ballet over the course of 2 days. She really loves class and is exhausted afterwards. That is the best part.

Week 37

This is my second week of working from home and I can say that it has been challenging with a board 4 year old. We were only a week into summer vacation when she announced that she was bored. Luckily, I mentioned to another parent that I wanted to get her an activity book that she could work through during the summer. She mentioned that she had just purchased some for her kids at Costco. So I quickly went to Costco to pick one up. I got Ori the Kindergarten one and she has been happily working in that book all week. It is a pretty good one with letters, numbers and other activities that really seems to keep her busy.

We also finally took our maternity/family photos as well. That was really important to me since I thought I had not taken any with Ori but then later I found the photo album to prove that we indeed did take some with her as well. It is so funny how I can completely forget about certain things. Amazing! They were some good pictures. I can't wait to put them side by side in the house somewhere. That will be a lot of fun considering I did carry different with Ori than I am this time around.

We have loose teeth over here

I can't believe it, Ori not only has one loose tooth, she has two! I had noticed earlier that her bottom front teeth looked oddly spaced for some reason but I just chalked it up to being because her mouth was growing to accommodate larger adult teeth. However on Monday I noticed that the teeth looked rather strange. So I wiggled them and they were totally loose. Wow!

I, of course, asked her if she had hit her mouth on something and she said no..so I guess she is just loosing them. I almost started to cry. I wasn't that concerned that she was going to Kindergarten or that she was growing so fast, but her teeth..those made me cry.