Baby, Come Out

Since Thursday, I have just been absolutely dying for this baby to come out. I have had some pretty good contractions here and there, which always start to get me excited and thinking, "This is it, I'll be in the hospital in a couple of hours." Then the darn things just stop on me. I am trying to stay moving to tell my body that I am ready, but my body is still holding off. Each day that passes I feel a little more discouraged. I know it is silly. I know that baby can't stay in there forever. I know it will be soon. But even though I know all that, I just want to meet my baby already! My body and my mind feel very tired. I am sore in all kinds of places and sleep is not the easiest these days. But more than being tired of being pregnant, I am just aching to hold my baby and see it's little face and hands and toes and smell it's skin and feel it breathe and all those amazing things that I have been looking forward to for these long months.

34 weeks pregnant

That means only 6 weeks left until we meet our new baby! I have not been documenting this pregnancy well at all. It is hard to believe that I have been pregnant since last July. As usual I was plagued by pregnancy nausea from about week 8 until week 18. Since then, things have been pretty smooth. I had leg cramps. My other pregnancies I would get the nighttime charlie horses in my calves, but for some reason this pregnancy they struck me in my right inner thigh. Ouch! My only other complaints have been the run of the mill bloody noses, snoring, heartburn/acid stuff. . .you know regular pregnancy stuff. I have always been blessed to have pregnancies with no major complications or sickness. I enjoy the excitement of my baby's movements and growing. This time around we decided it would be fun to leave the gender of our baby a surprise until the birth. We are so excited to meet the little one and find out what we have! Here I am this Sunday after church.