Week 40 update

Having never made it to 39 weeks, I never thought I'd be drafting a 40-week update.  But here we are.  Last week I was 2 cm, 75% effaced, and -2 station.  Same this week.  I thought I was progressing more but I guess not.  I've had some contractions but they always go away if I rest.  Baby's heartbeat was in the 130s.  

I know I'm only at my due date but with the other kids coming early this wasn't the expectation so it's just hard to be patient.  BUT, huge praise that I got all my business and classwork done.  I took my final exam on Friday and have been free of schoolwork since then for the first time since quitting work.  I almost don't know what to do with myself especially since the kids are at VBS every morning this week.

I also got more baby prep things done - installed the car seat, washed the swing and bouncy seat covers, finished organizing the nursery - I have never been so ready for a baby.

After the appointment today, Martin and I got to go out for lunch - Indian buffet, of course.  So there are some perks about all this waiting.  We've also watched some movies and I started to get a jump on some of my required volunteer hours at the kids' school.

I guess the hardest part of waiting though is that the longer I wait the less real it seems that I'm actually going to get to take a baby home from the hospital.  After so many "not yet"s I'm having a hard time believing this is really going to happen.  I just seems like it will be like last time.  No reason to think that just my anxious heart I guess.  I do realize though that I keep adding on to prayer request about the timing of his birth.  First it was after I get my classwork done, now it's that I want the right doctor and nurses to be there and that Dylan and Lydia won't have to miss their activities.  So if God wants to answer all of those I guess it takes time...:)