Andi’s exciting life.

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and our baby has still not made his appearance. I honestly never expected to go this late, and my patience is definitely running thin. I still feel perfectly fine, but I’m just sick of waiting and wondering when I will go into labor. My midwife set my due date at November 25, which I don’t agree with based on my dates, but now I’m overdue even by her date. I have an appointment tomorrow when we will talk about induction options. I have my fingers crossed that I will go into labor before my appointment so that we don’t have to make that decision.

Happy Turkey Day, everyone. This is a weird Thanksgiving for me because it’s my first ever when I’m not cooking anything at all. As I mentioned in my last post, we’re going to a friend’s family’s house for dinner. I offered to bring something, but my offer was declined. We’ll take some wine or beer so as to not show up empty handed, but I really would have been happy to cook something. It just doesn’t feel like Thanksgiving without cooking, but maybe when we get to their house and start eating I will get into the holiday spirit.

Traditionally, Matt and I put up our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving, so hopefully we will get to do that tomorrow unless I go into labor tonight. It’s weird that even the smallest plans are tentative for now because this baby could really decide to come at any moment. It will be nice to get our decorations up before his arrival though so that he can come home to a Christmas tree. I’m sure he’ll be way into it, as long as we hold him 12 inches away from it so that he can barely make it out in black and white with his underdeveloped vision.

I’m glad I didn’t buy him a newborn Thanksgiving outfit because that would have been a waste. It was tempting because I saw a lot of cute things, but he clearly didn’t need an outfit for today. After he is born, we’ll go get him some cute Christmas outfits. I thought it would be fun to shop with him for those instead of getting them ahead of time. We’ll also take him to the fabric store to choose a fabric for his stocking. If you’ll remember, I made stockings for the rest of the family and I’m looking forward to making one for the baby, too. We’ll have to see what his personality is like to figure out what kind of fabric suits him.

I’m going to get myself ready in preparation for our upcoming feast. Hopefully my next post will be about how labor has started!

It’s the end of the night of my due date, and no labor for me so far. I’m surprised that I’m really OK with that. I was pretty anxious last week when I was thinking it was going to happen early, but seeing my due date come and go has been no big deal for me. I know he’s going to come in the next few days on his own or I will probably be induced at the end of next week, so he’ll be here soon one way or the other. This way, Matt and I can still enjoy Thanksgiving dinner before we welcome our new baby into the world. We’re going to a friend’s parents’ house in Sausalito for dinner tomorrow, which will be nice I’m sure. It was sweet of them to invite us since we don’t have any family in the area and I didn’t want to plan to cook at our house in case the baby decided to come on Thanksgiving.

I was also thinking that our baby might be cuter at birth since he will be born a little after his due date. He will have had time to fatten up more and maybe be a little chubby. I expect him to be 8+ pounds by the time he is born.

Thankfully, I’m still feeling pretty great. My cold is pretty much gone with just a little residual stuffy nose. I’m still able to walk a couple miles each morning with Matt and overall feel much better and less uncomfortable than I expected at this point. I’m ready for pregnancy to be over because I want our baby boy here on dry land and I want to get my figure back, but I really can’t complain about being pregnant because I have had such an easy time. Let’s all hope that my labor and delivery goes as smoothly as pregnancy has!

I installed our baby’s car seat about three weeks ago. I spent a good 30 or 45 minutes putting it in, trying to get it tight enough and at the right angle. I felt like it was in there properly, but I kept hearing and reading that at least 80% of car seats are installed incorrectly and should be inspected by an official car seat technician. Since I didn’t want to be a deadbeat parent, I called and emailed multiple police and fire stations to try to get an appointment with someone. We finally heard back from someone at the Brisbane fire department and took it there today for inspection.

As it turns out, I rule at installing car seats. He actually looked shocked and said he had never had anyone get it in there so well on their own. He asked me how I got it so tight, and I told him I put my knee into it and pulled the seatbelt as tight as I possibly could. So, the inspection lasted just a few minutes because he didn’t have to change anything. It felt like a waste of time, but at least now we don’t have to feel ashamed when our fellow new parents ask if our car seat is official.

Today is release day for the Nintendo Wii. I have been excited and eager to get my hands on this new console, especially with the new Zelda. The PS3 was released on Friday, and people lined up outside stores for days to get theirs on release day. Matt didn’t think there would be that kind of demand for the Wii. I found out that our local Target opened at 8:00 this morning and was handing out tickets for the Wii at 7:00. Matt figured there would only be a handful of people there that early, so we left our house at 6:45, thinking we would walk up and get a ticket with the other five dedicated people.

As we pulled up to the Target, we could see that the parking lot was awfully full for the store to be closed. When we got to the front, there was a line of people wrapped around the building, probably 100-200 people. People had lawnchairs and blankets and some of them surely had spent the night there. We laughed about how we clearly wouldn’t be getting a Wii today and left. Looking back, we should have hung around to see how many people actually got tickets and how many were turned away.

We then drove past the Best Buy to see the scene there. It was 7:00 a.m. at this point, and they were giving out tickets at 8:00 before they opened at 9:00. The Best Buy parking lot was almost full. We couldn’t actually see how long the line was because it went down the side and around the back, but suffice it to say there were a lot of people in line.

So, unfortunately, we aren’t getting a Wii today. We weren’t dedicated enough. It would have been fun to have lined up at 2:00 this morning, had that even been early enough, and been playing Zelda today. Oh well. Now I just have to stalk Amazon until they will let me order it.

I don’t think I ever mentioned this here, probably because I didn’t want to jinx it, but I had convinced myself that I was going to have this baby between November 15 and 17. Well, it’s November 18 and I’m still pregnant. I guess I’m not much of a fortune teller. I have extended my prediction to think that I will have him by the end of the weekend. If he doesn’t come by then, I will give up on guessing when it will be because it will be obvious that I have no idea.

Today’s appointment went well. The baby measured right on target, with my fundal height being 39 centimeters, and his heart rate sounded good without any weird rate decreases or anything like last time. The midwife said he is a moderately-sized baby, and she estimated that he is about 7-1/2 pounds. My body appears to be getting ready for labor, so that was good to hear. I have one more appointment scheduled for November 28, almost a week after my due date, but the midwife says she really doubts that I will make it to that appointment. I hope she is right!

I got a flu shot today, but I don’t really see the point because I am now sick with my second cold in about three weeks! As mentioned in an earlier post, we went to babysit our friend’s toddler on Sunday, and he seemed to be sick. He sneezed right in my face at one point, and I’m convinced that’s when I was contaminated with this virus. I woke up this morning with a scratchy throat, and I keep feeling worse as the day goes on. This especially sucks because I’m so close to having this baby, so it’s now very likely that I will be sick during labor and recovery. I asked if I would have to worry about the baby getting sick if I was sick, but the midwife said that wouldn’t be a problem.

I went to the grocery store today and got ingredients for a few meals to cook and freeze, so I’ll spend a lot of time tomorrow in the kitchen. I also got my wooden giraffe today for the clock, so I’ll paint that tomorrow too. The clock parts I got are too big for the giraffe, so I might actually just make a little giraffe sign for the baby’s door and scratch the clock idea. I’ll see how it goes.

Bring on the indignity of labor and delivery because my pregnancy embarrassment has already begun. Today over at our friends’ house, when I bent down to pick up their toddler, I ripped the ass out of my pants. Of course this happened before Robin and Sandy walked out the door to leave us for babysitting, so it was right in front of Sandy. I don’t think (I hope) that he actually saw my underwear at least. I heard the rip when I bent over and then stood and turned so that my rear was facing away from everyone. They went on their merry way while we stayed to babysit, and I raided Robin’s clothes to find some pants. I did find a pair that she wore when she was pregnant, but they were not very flattering on me and I felt highly unattractive for the rest of our stay there. I do have to admit that it could have been much worse and happened in the middle of the grocery store or something, but splitting your pants in front of your husband and male friend is pretty humiliating.

Matt brought me flowers Friday night after work.

Here is a quote from a medical report I’m QAing right now. Let your imagination run wild:

“He is currently facing a possible disciplinary action, and this is based around him having body odor.”