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@sarah.clarisse: Congrats!! I'm glad everything worked out and your little man was in charge Rest up as much as you can before heading home!

@sarah.clarisse: Congrats! Glad to hear it all went well!!

@sarah.clarisse: Congratulations!! I admit I'm a little jealous!

So, DH had to put my shoes on for me today... I am SO OVER being at work....my hips hurt for like the first time....and I really want a nap. That's my whine list...what's yours?

@Ash: I have no official end date...whenever Baby J decides to show is the end for me!

@Ash: I know. It's such a long ways away for you though! It'd be easier if you were delivering there, wouldn't it?

Is it bad that I'm kind of over baby hiccups and getting kicked? He's not even kicking me in the ribs or anything painful. I feel kinda guilty.

@ShootingStar: I've got one kicking me from the inside and another kicking me from the outside...good times! Over it is an understatement lol.

@Maysprout: Sounds like your plan and LO's understanding is similar to ours. I think our LO's are similar in age? DS turned 2.5 yesterday.

I'm also not sure if DH will stay the night either. We live about 15 min from where I'll give birth and I think that part will really depend on what type of delivery I have and time of day (DS was born right after midnight so it made sense for DH to stay, plus it was our first). The rest I think we will go with the flow also, but I think it world be better for him to meet her in the hospital as well.

@NeekieRose: Oh wow, what a roller coaster!! Silly baby! I know what you mean- I've mentally prepared myself for a C-section as well.

Speaking of that, my C-section has been scheduled for November 14th!! My OB practice has 11 doctors and I have 2 favorites. I was able to get one of my favs to do the surgery, so I'm happy about that. Eeeek, That's less than 3 weeks away!! And only 2 more weeks left of work AHHHH!! Things are getting real!

@Mrs. J: I'm hungry and I'm exhausted, even though it's only 10:30 in the morning and I've already had a nap. Meh. I've been conking out on the couch every morning after everyone is out the door and Tractor Girl just watches Disney Junior for an hour. Or 3. But I wake up exhausted every morning and I find that if just go ahead and nap in the morning, I can actually get some stuff done in the afternoon. Today's project is to finish shampooing the living room carpet. But anyways, exhaustion, that's what's on my whine list. Thankfully my tail bone is feeling 80% better and back to feeling physically well. It's not like I won't be exhausted after I have a newborn or anything, lol. Oh, and speaking of having a newborn, I've been having some humdinger contractions. Nothing timeable, but I've never had contractions like these without actually being in labor. And yesterday, there were a few times I went to the bathroom and so much painful downward pressure that I seriously wondered for a minute or two if I was going to have a baby right there in one giant contraction or something. Which totally scared me because I'm not ready yet!!!!

@anbanan15: My littlest one is a little older than yours (2 3/4, lol), but since we're having a home birth, we have child care lined up and the kids will be here at home when Cricket comes (planning for the birth to happen in the basement, so they'll be on the main floor and not have to around the actual birth at all, if they don't want to be), so they'll get to meet him/her pretty quickly after the birth. I don't foresee any issues. Both kids have a pretty good idea about what's going to happen and that there's a baby coming out and that the midwife will come to help and so on. LOL, so I'm probably the only one who finds this rather hysterical, but the other night DH was giving the kids baths and he came to me laughing and shaking his head and saying, "Desi watches too many birth vids with you!" Apparently she'd laid back in the tub and pulled back her legs and said, "Ok, now the baby can come out!" LOL, hey, I'm a birth junkie, so what can I say besides, "Learn 'em young!"

@anbanan15: She'll be 2.5 in a month so pretty much the same age.
@FarmWifeGina: Haha. We don't watch birth videos but she did figure out more than I thought. She was saying her tummy hurt and she had to go poopy so I was explaining that the poopy was in her tummy and that when she sits on the potty she pushes it from her tummy out her heiny into the potty. So then she asked about baby being in my tummy and getting pushed out - had to explain it won't happen on the potty but she didn't seem interested in that part.

My only whines right now are that I want this master bath/bedroom renovation to be over and done with! That and I really could have used a nice glass of red wine yesterday after dealing with family stress. I think when the baby comes we just aren't going to let anyone in our house

So fun to hear everyone talking about final days at work, and such. I'm still 4 weeks out from my last day at work. I'm only at 35w2d right now. So you're all giving me a glimpse of my future.

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@lilteacherbee: A date! You have a date!!! And your preferred doc too!

@ms.janedoe: Um, when are you due? Because that's some legit nesting going on. The mucous plug may not mean a lot for time, but it does mean your body is doin' it's thang, getting ready to open up for a baby to come out!

@FarmWifeGina: 2 weeks from today, November 8th! SO freaking crazy!

@sweetooth: Ooooh, will do, I'm kind of looking forward to having DH out for awhile tonight--I'm thinking my night will consist of a pizza and trashy TV...

@ms.janedoe: Oh boy, that's some serious nesting. I'm just waiting for that to hit me so I can be productive again.

@lilteacherbee: Yay for having a date!!

My boss was commenting today that she was little worried because the baby was looking really low. (She wants me around as long as possible). I think some of it was my outfit, but it was good to hear I might be making some progress. I think my last work day will be 3 weeks from today. And then I'll take the following week off and should be induced some time that week (11/20-22). In a way I am hoping I make it to then because it'll give me a few days to rest, whereas now I'm just exhausted. But on the other hand I'm so tired of being pregnant and ready to be done NOW.

Ugh....the hospital just called to go over all the details for the c-section on Tuesday. Since we don't know yet if we are cancelling it, the hospital obviously still thinks everything is going ahead as planned.

It is not helping that I have talked to a number of women who have had c-sections who are telling me to just go through as scheduled. DH had a number of people tell him the same thing yesterday so he is leaning in that direction....I'm so conflicted!

@lilteacherbee: Yeah, that's the plan. Depending on her position on Monday afternoon we will decide. But I feel like I wouldn't be justified in deciding to go ahead with the c-section if she's head down on Monday. My sister (who is currently 11 weeks pregnant with her first) just told me it would be a "cop out" to get the c-section. Yet there are others who have actually had c-sections that have said to just do it!

@FarmWifeGina: By hot baths, does that it can go over the 100 degrees you're supposed to normally stay under while pregnant?

@FarmWifeGina: Well I haven't taken a bath in while because I'm afraid of trying to get in an out of the tub! But at week 39 I'm gonna try to pull out all the stops and see if I can get baby to come naturally instead of by induction.