Counting down!

We're on the home stretch! I'm 37weeks/4days, 30% effaced, and not dilated quite yet, but working on it.

I had another midwife appointment today with an ultrasound and watched Ziggy roll and stretch and nap (we had to push him/her around a bit to wake him/her so we could measure the right movements). And of course, 10 minutes later as I waited to see the midwife Ziggy was dancing all over the place. Just another sign that this child has a mind of its own!

Plans are all in place at work for both Joe and I, the hospital bag is all packed and in the car, the dogsitter is lined up, the nursery is set and waiting with clean sheets and stocked changing table, and I am sufficiently uncomfortable and ready to face this thing called labor.

I think it's a cruel joke that the last month and a half I've already been so sleep-deprived. I think I make it to about 1.5/2 hours of sleep and then I have to pee and something hurts, usually my back or hips. And changing positions requires 14 sets of muscles from the outer lying body parts to leverage, lift, shift and turn!

I laugh at myself when I think, "Gee, I can't wait to be able to sleep again..." When will that be? 2 years from now? This is truly going to be an adventure.

Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Joe just has a few more days of tradeshows, but of course they are in places like Superior, WI. I hope his patience and his heart hold out (it starts pounding everytime his cell phone rings)!

Hoping for another post, with Ziggy's arrival pics, soon!