38 weeks pregnant today
T-14 days until baby is "due" to arrive
I will probably have a baby in my house 2 weeks from this moment. That is so crazy to me. I can't wait to see what he looks like and to give him oh so many kisses. I don't think I will go overdue, but I'm having ZERO signs of impending labour, so I feel like he will come in week 39 - close to my due date. I have no real reason for making that assumption though ;),
Aside from just waiting for this little guy to introduce himself to our family, these were today's graces:
1. I got to sleep in a little today. Jeff got up with Carter. It was only about 1/2 hour longer, but it felt nice to just laze in bed for that extra time.
We have been really busy since the beginning of September with house renovations and things have finally slowed. All I really have left to do is clean the house, though I know what doesn't get done won't matter one iota to the baby, so while I am going to try to get some good cleaning done in the days I have left before he comes, I'm going to try to spend more fun time with Carter.
Because of Carter's cold, I have also just not been sleeping well at all. He wakes up in the night coughing - manageable coughing, but enough to keep me awake and checking in on him. Because of how busy we've been and how much sleep I've been losing at night, I'm totally exhausted and so, even though I slept in a little this morning, by 11:00 a.m. I was totally beat. Jeff and Carter were watching a movie in the theatre room, and I decided to lay down again. I slept, off and on, for another hour and a half. I woke up feeling much better rested, but it sort of highlighted for me how behind on sleep I am. If possible, given the fact that baby could show up at any time, I'd like to try to stay as caught up on sleep as I can, just so I'm not going into the physical marathon that is giving birth and then immediately caring for a newborn already low on sleep and overtired.
2. Jeff spent the whole day at home, with us, today. Because we've been working on house renovations, he's been mostly MIA doing stuff related to that. This is the first weekend in as long as I can remember when he didn't have to be doing anything or be anywhere. It was so nice to have him home. It was nice that I was able to rest while he hung out with Carter and it was nice that he and Carter were actually able to spend some time together.
3. We took Carter swimming tonight. We haven't gone - the three of us - in forever; for sure not since the summer and it was so fun. It's good exercise for him and Jeff and I enjoyed being in the water. Normally, I have him in swimming lessons, but we were on vacation the day that registration opened for classes and I literally used my phone to register - which was extra challenging because I would lose and re-gain internet connectivity as we were driving through the mountains. Because of this, I registered about 6 hours after registration was open and the classes fill up so quickly here that the sessions for September - October were already full and my only option was the November-December session. SO, while our plan was to register him for the September- October session and not register him for the November-December session (because we knew we'd be extra busy and tired with a newborn in the house), this was not to be. Anyway, he had a great time and cried when we left, which made me realize that we really need to make a point of going more often.
That's it. That was Saturday. A good, kind of sleepy-lazy day, but a day that provided some much-needed catch up on rest for my pregnant self!
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