Well, I finally missed a blog week.  I felt badly about not writing one last week but I just kept putting it off and here we are at the end of my 38th week so I thought I’d go ahead and just combine the two.

The best thing that happened during this week was that Alan flew into Columbus this past Friday.  His boss ended up working with him to allow him to be able to come home for about two weeks for the birth of the weeha.  It’s not something that happens very often, so I’m very grateful that his lieutenant colonel did what he could to get him back to me during this time.  He’ll definitely be getting a thank you letter from me!

Family is starting to let us know that they’ll be coming to visit, which we’re both excited about.  We know that people have their own busy lives, so it means a lot that people make the effort to come out for such an important event and we’ll always remember those that make the trip.  Philip and Kendra, Alan’s older brother and his wife, are going to come during the first week of February while Alan is still here and my family will be coming closer to the end of February and beginning of March.

All day Thursday I was having pretty regular contractions that were about 10 minutes apart…I thought that maybe the weeha was about to make his exit out of the womb but they slowed down quite a bit after I took a bath.  And, although the contractions were fairly close together, they weren’t as painful as I know they’ll be when it’s time to head to the hospital.  Since then, I’ve been having contractions daily but still nothing too regular.  I’m hoping that something will be happening soon though…

Normally, doctors will start checking your dilation by doing a pelvic exam beginning at 36 weeks.  I’ve been opting out of these checks because they didn’t sound particularly comfortable to me and because I figure I’ll have enough going on in that general area when the weeha does decide to make his appearance.  He’s going to come when he wants to come, so there’s no use on me just checking the progress of things.  That said, when I mentioned to my midwife during my last appointment that I had been having regular contractions, she wanted to check me because three other women were in labor that day.  I told her to go ahead if she needed to know if I was close for planning purposes.  The exam wasn’t as bad as I’d imagined and she informed me that although I was just about fully effaced, I was only about 1 centimenter dilated.  So…things were happening but not enough to alarm her that I might be their fourth delivery of the day.  I have another appointment with my midwife this Tuesday and Alan will get to go to that one.  We’ll let you all know if anything happens before then…

This week Ed informed me that the baby wants to come out.  How he knows this…I have no idea.  Maybe he has some  type of communication with the weeha that I don’t know about.  But, I told Ed that I want the baby to come out too so at least we’re all on the same page!  Ed then wanted to know if the weeha was going to be a friend for him and I assured him that he would probably want to be friends but that he’s going to be very small for a while so he may not be much fun.  Ed’s next question was if the weeha was going to come out on the floor…to which I replied, “God, I hope not!!”

So now it’s just a waiting game…today marks the beginning of my 39th week.  I both can and can’t believe that our son will very possibly be here within the next 7 days or so.  We’ll let you all know as soon as we do!!

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