OK, I will try not to let 24 hours go by without a blog post until the baby's born.  

I started writing one today (about writing report cards) but it's still in "draft" stage and I'm too tired to finish it now.  Maybe tomorrow.  

I am also planning to do a post with my reading list for our 18-week literature-based Civil War study.  Now that we've finished it and I know what we can realistically accomplish.

But it's bedtime now.  So.  No baby yet.  I continue to have labor-type contractions now and again, no more than two or three in a row.   I have made my peace with them and am not discouraged at the moment.  Instead I am

  • Counting my blessings, 
  • enjoying a few last days of relative calm, 
  • trying to keep the house clean, 
  • wondering when I am going to find time to make a few rice bags as I can't find my old ones and am all out of rice, 
  • psyching myself up for a posterior labor,
  • eating lots of iron-rich food (well, lots of food in general),
  • trying to train Mary Jane to sit in a different spot in the van and sleep in a different spot in the bed,
  • and counting those blessings again.

Stick around…


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3 responses to “Not yet.”

  1. Thank you from those of us who are excited for the news, but don’t want to be bugging you as we’ve been there that last week with people calling saying, “No baby yet?”
    We check often. Let us know if you need anything. We are praying for a healthy baby and mom and a safe delivery.

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  2. Do you know for sure that he is ‘sunny side up,’ or are you just mentally preparing since he’s been moving around so much?

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  3. He has been posterior the entire time. It is really, really obvious, not just to the midwives, but to me too (feet and hands poking out of my belly all the time). There is, of course, hope that he’ll turn eventually (most do in labor). Everyone tells me that posterior doesn’t really make the birth harder, but that it makes labor longer and more uncomfortable, which isn’t very cheerful to hear. Still, I’m just grateful he’s not breech anymore.

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