Almost there... I hope!

Okay, the doctor said today "Any time... for real this time!" (we'll see) This morning when I went in I was dilated to a 2 now, and 80% effaced and my plug is completely gone now. So he gave me the option to induce on Monday but I told him I would wait and let it just happen. I still have had zero contractions since last week... so he said I might just be the type that will get them all at once and just go into labor. Little Gavin is so dang low in my pelvis, during my exam today he said he had to move his head up to measure me. I thought for sure last night Gavin was going to push on my bladder so hard that it would just pop! Its getting too squished in there for him. So the doctor also predicted between 7-8 lbs now... So what do you think... Before next weekend?

Update

Well... crap. Just got back from the doctor and I am about the same as where I was last week. No progression. He said probably within the week... but we will see. I wasn't very happy about that news cause my contractions have started coming a little more intense, and I have serious back pain and crotch pain... so much pressure... I dont want to go another week! Ug. So... its the waiting game.

Baby Update!

Well, I had some exciting news this morning at the doctor! First off... Im a little retarded because I had my own due date wrong all this time... its actually Oct. 3rd, and I have thought it was Oct.9th for how long now... so I looked at all the ultrasound pictures and it has the Oct. 3rd date on all of them! So that was a pleasant surprise! I told the doctor I'll just keep it Oct. 9th in my head and if he wants to come early that will be a nice surprise! So Dr. Langford measured the baby's head and chest and everything looks real good! He has a slightly larger head than normal! (yeah for me!) He is weighing at 6 lbs 14 oz as of right now. Then he measured my cervix and said that I am already dilated to a 1 and 75% effaced. YEAH!!! Dr. Langford says he is thinking within the next 7 to 12 days little Gavin will be here!!! So... we will see. Its closer than we thought! Ive got to get cleaning!

Labor Day Pool Party

I know its been a long time since I have posted anything... I just feel like I dont have much to put on these days. My ultrasound pictures are getting harder to see because everything is looking a little smooshed! Only 4 more weeks! I thought since I wear my bathing suit 75 percent of the time these days I would take my 9 month photo in my suit! It has been so bloody hot here! It was well into the hundreds (like 106+) all last week, and the nights are only cooling down to like 75ish... with no breeze at our house. I feel like my bones are boiling in my own body. I was really excited to go to work and sit in the air conditioned office all day, but I just started working half days now until I go on maternity leave... there goes the free ac. Its hard for me to stay off my feet in the middle of the day, I feel so unproductive... like I have to be doing some kind of work! I feel lazy... even though I know its best to not do anything.

My doctors appt's have been going well. He will start measuring me at my next appt Friday. Little Gavin is just so low, I have a constant shooting pain in my legs, and it hurts my back to be up for too long. (or sitting for that matter) Last appt the doctor said "if you were any lower the baby would be coming out" (i wish he would come out!!! Im ready) I have so much pressure down there that I think he is trying to come out. Sleeping is still alright... kinda. He moves so much in the night, pushing both in my ribs and against my bladder at the same time we like to say he's doing the Maniac dance. Ren likes to talk to him all the time, and when he does he moves around a lot. So... just a few more weeks! I cant wait to just have him here. If i get a cool picture or video from my appt Friday maybe I will post it. Im just excited to post actual Gavin pictures! Soon enough I guess.

Baby Shower!

Last Saturday my friend Alexandra threw me a really wonderful baby shower! Thank you all again for coming and all the great gifts! Alexandra had a really good idea of instead of a greeting card to go with the present, to give your favorite children's book for little Gavin with a message inside, and I got a lot of great classics to start his library! We played the guess how big Jessica's belly is game... 39 inches as of right now. Nellie did the memory game where you have to try to remember all the goodies on a tray, and we played a nursery rhyme game. My friend Justyn brought a chocolate fountain with all kinds of goodies and fruit to go in it... LOVED it! You can tell cause in most of my pictures I'm shoving my face with food! It was a really good shower! I got a ton of clothes, some essentials like bottles, blankets and a 4 tier diaper cake! It was all very appreciated and needed... thank you all again!

The 8 month picture!

Holy Cow! I feel like a cow! I have officially POPPED! I keep thinking, I have 8 more weeks... where is he gonna go, I already feel ginormous! Its now hard to bend over... I still get wicked butt cheek cramps at night and I can feel every little move he makes... and that is a lot. The other night i felt him push on my spine I think. My legs went numb and I had to sit up real fast and shake them out... then they did that tingling thing... woof. Makes me happy to know he is healthy and active at least. Ren is so good to me, he always rubs my feet at night cause my arches KILL by the end of the day! He is so excited that Gavin is almost here! He is sucha good man!!!

San Fransisco

This past weekend Ren and I went to San Fransisco with some friends of ours Tom & Alexandra! We wanted to take a quick trip before Gavin came, and San Fransisco was one place where most of us had never been and was quick enough that we could drive there. So we were there from Friday to Sunday, and crammed in as much sight seeing we could in 3 days... with me being almost 8 months pregnant... it was tiring, but well worth it. So Friday we did the Jelly Belly factory tour and got ourselves a ton of belly flops... then made our way into the city and ate lunch at this restaurant called The Stinking Rose, which was pretty much everything on the menu completely smothered in garlic... I think we had the smell of garlic seeping out of our pores the entire weekend! They even offered us garlic wine... We walked around Pier 39 at Fisherman's Wharf and went to the Alcatraz tour, which was pretty intense. Those people were pretty dang wicked, and had it pretty rough. Ugh! It was cool though. And the people working there let me take the handicap carts up the hill since I was pregnant! We ate dinner on the wharf and went back to our hotel after that cause we were pretty pooped. Saturday we did a lot of just sight seeing. We drove over the Golden Gate bridge and went to Sausalito, went to China town and ate lunch with Brandon and Laurie... and I thought China town was really cool... crowded... but cool. We drove down Lombard St, went and saw the Painted ladies (the row of famous Victorian homes... where Full House took place!) Oh... how could I forget Ghirardelli Square! That is a fantastic place! So the one bummer thing about the trip was I had to pee all the time... I don't think I have been in that many public restrooms in one weekend in my life! And I gotta say... I think gas station bathrooms are getting cleaner... just something I noticed since I used so many! We had a ton of fun! It was the perfect little mini trip away!