Still Going Strong...But End's in Sight!

Today I am 40 weeks and 2 days pregnant and still going strong.  Throughout this entire pregnancy I was hoping that I would deliver before my due date so as the date came and went I seem to be left with an anti-climactic feeling.  It's getting harder to move around and I am also getting sick of going to work every day and having people ask me why I am still there.  Especially since my temp is doing most of my work and I don't have a whole lot of responsibilities at the moment.  The only saving grace right now is that the longer I go on this end the more into the summer my maternity leave will take me!

There was a fairly big thunderstorm that went through our area on Tuesday night and I actually felt a fair amount of contractions during that time.  I was hoping that they would continue to get stronger as time went on but as the storm came to an end and I went to bed everything seemed to return back to normal.  Talk about a let-down...

Because I was past my due date I had another doctor's appointment yesterday.  At the 40 week checkups, a non-stress test is usually done to see if it is safe for mom and baby to continue pregnancy.  So, I basically had to lay on the table for 20+ minutes with some monitors hooked up to my belly to listen to baby’s heartbeat, monitor contractions and get some good baby kicks.  Well, wouldn’t you know that our little teaser slept the entire time.  His heart rate was only about 126 the whole time and he didn’t move at all.  Next step was to send me to the hospital to have a 30 minute biophysical ultrasound done on baby to make sure everything was ok with him.  They scored him on if he made several breathing motions in a row, gave a big kick, had enough fluid surrounding him and a few other things.  Well, he passed this test with flying colors – an 8 out of 8!  So, I was sent home instead of being sent upstairs to the third floor.  What a nice 2.5 hour doctor’s appointment!  I’m not complaining, just a little annoyed but thankful that I have had two very healthy pregnancies.  Oh, and the sonographer did try to get me a couple of 3D pictures - a new thing for Ridgeview.  However, because he is soooo cramped for space his hands were in front of his smooshed little face and nothing looked right.  But at least I got to see him in 3D.

We still have a couple of really good birthday options before the scheduled induction date of May 8th.  Tomorrow, May 4th is John's birthday, Cinco de Mayo is May 5th, and my lucky number is 7.  Take your pick, little man or else we'll see you on the 8th!  (Megan never came until we had an actual induction date scheduled either.  And I completely agree with the doctor that I'd rather wait and let the baby come out on his own before he's ready.)

I'll finish up the post with a quote that our pastor read at church on Sunday and then we discussed it at Bible study Tuesday night:  Anxiety is the end of faith but true faith is the end of anxiety.  Hopefully keeping this in mind will help me give me patience to wait until Tuesday or whatever baby has in his plans.