How I'm feeling...

At this point (38 weeks) I am feeling grouchy and tired most of the time. I am definitely at the end of this. My body is not comfortable at this point. Baby is crowded and so am I. I feel bad for my family. I am not much fun to be around right now.

We are getting very ready for the baby to come. I finished the last of the burp cloths and blankets that I wanted to make today. I've got a bag packed for the hospital. The pacifiers are sterilized. The baby's room is cleaned up. I think we are finally ready with the preparations we wanted to make. Now we just wait (and maybe hang some pictures with this new method I want to try out).

On Wednesday I was dilated to 1.5 and the doctor estimates the baby's weight at 7.5-8 pounds. I've had some contractions since then but nothing that is consistent or very painful. We're ready to try 2 new labor inducing ideas that we heard about recently. One is rubbing a certain part on my feet. The other is eating eggplant parmesan. My mom has some obligations tomorrow afternoon so we are going to wait until after that for the foot rub. Maybe I'll get eggplant parmesan early next week if we still have no baby.

And my friend, Chris, that was due the same day as me had her healthy baby girl last Saturday. Allie and I were a little jealous when we heard the news!