39 weeks!

I finally have a few pictures of his room! I really, really, really wish we could paint but at this point it would be more trouble than it's worth. I'd like to find a larger rug and a few more decorative items for his dressers/walls, but I'm not in any rush to get those things before he arrives.









I had my 39 week appointment on Wednesday. I wasn't able to see Dr. Coleman, but it was a quick and easy visit so I didn't mind too much. I had progressed to 4cm dialated & was still 50% effaced. She told us you have to be 4cm in order to get admitted to L&D so the next time I was having consistent contractions to come on in. She recommended coming in when my contractions were 5-7 minutes apart for 2 hours or so. Silly us left there thinking he was practically on his way!

That night I woke up about midnight with some contractions. I timed them until about 2AM before I decided to wake up Randy. We came out to the living room and over the next hour they started to die down. Not knowing what was ahead we went back to bed about 3AM to rest while we had the chance. I think it was around 5AM when I woke up again with more contractions. This time we decided to call L&D just to see what their opinion was. The nurse said my contractions needed to be 3-4 minutes apart for 3 hours. Okay, that is completely different than what the doctor had just told me! I was a little frustrated, but at the same time I didn't think it was the "real deal" so we headed back to bed. I ended up calling into work that day. There is no way I would have made it after being up all night!

It's weird, but I don't have very many contractions during the daytime. But the second I lay down at night they start to kick in. They have gotten stronger every night since Wednesday, they are more painful and they are definitely taking my breath away. I just hope when it's time to go into L&D that it's obvious! Heck, before I was worried about my water breaking at work and now I'm kind of wishing it would happen. At least then I would 100% know that it's time to go :)

Below is a picture of my big ol' belly from this afternoon.



We're waiting as patiently as we can! Hopefully he'll decide to come sometime soon. Randy and I both have a 3 day weekend so we're just going to relax, hang out and wait on him. I go back to the doctor on Wednesday so we'll see if I make it to then or not! Thanks for checking on us and I can't wait to announce that he's finally here!!!! :)