Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Almost there!

I am 35 weeks along now!  Two more weeks and I'll be 37, which means the baby is officially considered to be full term, although the due date is at 40 weeks.  I'm a little overwhelmed, but I'm finally getting pretty excited about it.  I'm ready to get this baby out.  Partly because I am getting increasingly bigger and more uncomfortable, and the weather is getting increasingly warmer and more unbearable.

Oh and its a boy by the way.  I was disapointed about that at first and it took me a little while to get over it.  I'm pretty sure I only want two children, so this was my only chance to experience the mother-daughter relationship from the mother perspective.  My relationship with my mother is so great, I really wanted to pass that on to a daughter of my own.  I also wanted to give my mother a granddaughter.  Who knows, I just might decide to try one more time.  But the way I feel right now, I don't see that happening.  Plus there's a good chance I would just end up with a third boy, and that would just be...too much.  I was really hoping for a break from cars, trucks, trains, and vehicles of all kinds.  Maybe this one won't be into those things.  But really, there are a lot of reasons that I'm glad I'm having another boy.  I can't wait to meet him.  I'm hoping he comes early, and I have a feeling he will.  He is much more active than Emmett was, and I have a feeling he won't be content to be cooped up in here much longer. 

Things are looking good for a VBAC attempt.  So far he's been measuring normal size for his gestational age.  I have gained significatnly less weight this pregnancy, and actually got a compliment from my doctor about that last week.  He is also in the head-down position.  As long as I go into labor naturally and don't have to be induced, we should be good to go.

Emmett slept in his big boy bed last night!  I am so proud of him.  He went to sleep on his own and slept through the night, until almost 9:00 which is actually later than I would like him to.  But he still took his nap on time, also in his big boy bed!  He's just now starting to wake up.  My biggest fear about it all was that he wouldn't stay in bed.  But we got an extra-long safety rail that goes almost the entire length of the bed.  Its also a day bed, but a low wooden one that has rails around three sides already.  So I think he honestly doesn't realize that he could possibly climb out.  He'll probably eventually figure it out, but for now it works.  So that's one big step in getting him ready for the new baby.  The next step is getting him potty trained, which we have started on, but haven't gotten real serious about yet.  I figure we'll give him the rest of the week to get used to the new bed before we start potty boot camp.  Don't want to overwhelm him with too many changes at once.  I think once he sees how much more comfortable underwear is compared to diapers, he'll be glad to make the change.  Lately he messes with his diaper a lot, like its bugging him.  And he'll pee in the potty most of the time when we ask him to, and sometimes he asks to go on his own.  So we've got a good start.  I think he can do it before the baby comes and then we won't have two kids in diapers at once.  But we'll see.

So everything is going well!  I still have a lot of work to do to get ready, but I'm getting closer to being there.  Now that Emmett is out of the nursery, I can really work on getting the nursery ready.  I need to get all the baby clothes out and washed, get clothes of Emmett's put away, set up all the baby stuff again.  I'm actually excited to do all of that.  More nesting!