I am 38w3d and Silas is VERY engaged. They did a scan on Tuesday and they are guessing he is almost 7 pounds [could be off by a pound either way] and my fluid looks good. I was getting worried that I was slowly leaking but it's just pee! LOL! My maternity leave started on Monday and we decided that I will be a SAHM. So, I am taking my full leave but I do not need to return at all. Actually, I am on "vacation" because I had almost 50 hours left but my ML will start when he is born. I was starting to get nervous about going down to one income but DF makes good money and we got a real blessing today! While DF was working away, his boss came up to him and commended all his hard work and gave him a $1 raise! He just got a $1 raise in August and now they gave him another!
We're getting antsy and I'm hunkered down at home because the weather is bad and I'm afraid of slipping on the ice. But we're going to do the last touches on the nursery this weekend. Clothes are washed but need to be hung. I still need to pack our bags! My mom is bringing me a big luggage bag and her crochet stuff.
Also, I switched to a midwife because my OB was a total bitch! She made me feel so pressured into letting go of my birth plan because it would "make things complicated for the staff" and she didn't support anything I wanted. Which was, labor at home as long as possible [she said that if I wasn't hooked up to a monitor, they couldn't know what was going on with the baby and wanted me in as soon as I thought I was in labor], have a drug free labor and delivery and have immediate, un-interuppted skin-to-skin. Needless to say, I would do whatever I needed if we were in danger. There's more about the OB I hated but the above was enough to make me make the switch. My midwife is AMAZING! She is 100% on the same page as me and I didn't even need to tell her my plan. She told me how she likes to do things and it WAS my birth plan! She made me feel a lot better about induction, too. She said she starts it very low and slow and only turns it up until she sees progression, then she lets my body do the rest. Most doctors will crank it on high from the get-go and keep turning it up because it will get things done faster [way harder on mom and baby but at least the doctor is home for dinner...].
Anyways, I'm just sitting here waiting. I have a feeling he won't be late. I'm due the 23rd. I'm the most nervous about crowning and how badly it will hurt. The nurse and midwife both said that I always looked so relaxed and that it's the "laid back" moms who have easier labors. They said the ones who are all cocky, thinking it will be a day at the park, almost always have the tough, long labors. I found a lot of comfort in that, lol!
Although, it doesn't really have much to do with *when* you go into labor - but it does help because babies head presses against cervix. It just isn't a big indicator of *when* the big delivery day will happen.
