Good morning all. Just a quick note to let you know that Boo was born around midnight this morning. He weighs exactly 8 lbs. and is 20.5 inches long. Jana and Boo are both doing well and should be home tomorrow.
Still pregnant…
There hasn’t been too much to report this week. Little and I have been enjoying the warm, sunny days with lots of visits to the park and outside play time. Matt planted flowers in our flower beds over the weekend and some in pots last night; it is nice to see the color outside the windows after the drab winter. Little refers to the flowers as “da-da’s fowfers” everytime she sees them. Now we’re gearing up for more rain this afternoon and tonight and a few-day cold snap (hopefully the last of the season).
Hope you are all having a wonderful week!
Today was our 37 week doctor appointment and everything looked good – my blood pressure, baby’s heartrate, etc. She approved my birth plan and confirmed that he is definitely still head down.
But how do you reply when the doc says, “this isn’t going to be the smallest baby I’ve ever seen?” On one hand, this is a good thing because I’m sure she’s seen some pretty tiny ones in her years of delivering babies. On the other hand, I’m not so sure about delivering a big baby (especially since I hope to deliver unmedicated, but we’ll see how that goes).
She asked what size Little was when she was born and when I said 7 lbs 1 oz she said that Boo is about that size now and will probably be bigger than that, especially if we go three more weeks. The doc who delivered Little “guesstimated” her to be much bigger than she actually was, so we’ll see if this doc is more adept at determining size based solely on external signs.
The only question that remains (or at least the only one that comes to mind) is whether or not we’ll make it through these next three weeks. According to my “progress report” today I’m at about the same dilation/thinning as the day Little was born. Guess we better get a hospital bag packed and the car seat installed!
Yesterday Boo and I had our 36 week doctor appointment. 
That means that if he holds out for the due date we have just over three weeks before we welcome this little man into the world. If he is on a schedule like Little it will be about two weeks. I’m torn between being anxious to meet him and wanting him to wait a little longer because, you know, we aren’t really prepared to bring him home (read: his room isn’t finished, clothes aren’t washed, we have no diapers). But, alas, as my friends keep reminding me, he really won’t care if everything is finished.
Anyway, we are now to the point where it is okay for him to come whenever he decides it is time. We’re making some progress in that direction and he is confirmed to be head down. Guess now it is just a matter of waiting patiently for our precious new son.
I don’t know exactly when it happened. It could have been a Thursday or maybe even a Monday. It was probably a gradual parting; one of those things that happens so slowly you don’t even realize it is happening. All I know is that one day I looked down and my belly button was gone. It didn’t leave a note. It didn’t say goodbye. I hope it comes back one day.
Random thoughts of a wife, mother, Christ follower
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