Eviction Day is Coming!

This week has been crazy busy for the Early's! We've been getting ready to have our families in town this weekend for the Easter weekend and somewhat patiently awaiting the arrival of lil Ben! We had our first "false alarm" on Wednesday night too! I was having contractions that started getting closer and closer together. So close that they fit the criteria for me to call Labor and Delivery. They had me come in just to get checked out but ended up releasing us since I wasn't dilating anymore than at my last check up. So home we went, and after a good nights rest my contractions went back to being irregular !

We had our 39 week checkup this morning and since I'm on a bunch of meds they decided to schedule me for an induction on the 5th! So unless this little guy decides to make an earlier appearance, we'll be having a baby next weekend!

Wiggles, Due Dates, and SNOW

So I'm a little past 38wks preggers and I'm already tired of it. Who am I kidding I was tired of it weeks ago and I've still (at a min) got at least one more week til my due date. I had a check up this past Friday ad good news is I was showing SOME progression in the dialate/effacing (for all you non-mommies that's a good thing) which as my sister lovingly told me "we'll that's further than I ever was!" My giant baby has found that his favorite place to hang out is bouncing his ginormous noggin off my cervix which causes this mommy to keel over wherever she might be standing or sitting.

Right now munchkin is in the midst of what I like to refer as his mid morning freak out. He has run out of space and thus must stretch and jab and kick and wiggle just to make sure there is no possible inch that hasn't been taken up by baby. It's usually not bad until he throws an elbow or knee (I don't really know its just pointy) in my side, which much like the head bumps to the cervix also cause me to stop what I'm doing and talk to me stomach in a stern voice "what are you doing in there?!"

Oh! And icing on the cake- the other pregnant lady in my shop who is due two days before me went into labor yesterday. So needless to say, Baby Daddy and I had Chipotle for lunch, a big bunch of pineapple for dessert, and I'm downing raspberry leaf tea like its going out of style!

Oh! AND it SNOWED yesterday ?! WTF March?!

Baby Watch!

We're a little more than two weeks out from D Day and now we're on baby watch! I have appointments weekly until I hit 40 weeks and then I think if I haven't delivered this kid by then Ill have check ups every couple of days. I'm feeling pretty good, I've been having more and more practice contractions. They don't hurt, most of the time they don't even really feel like anything other than my stomach's bunching up. When they start hurting is probably when I'll pay more attention to them :-) however the women in my family (my mom and sister) are notorious for not realizing they're in labor soooo we'll be paying close attention in the coming weeks!

Here's an updated belly picture! Me and the bump from this past Sunday. Not a huge change, just expanding as munchkin slowly runs out of space! I think he's starting to notice!

36 Weeks- Battle for Belly Room!

Today we hit one of our last markers- the start of month number NINE! I have officially been switched from the Lovenox shots twice a day to Heparin shots three times a day (yuck!). I have a pic of my beautiful stretch marked and polka dot belly but I'll spare you the details! The doc told me and Alex at our last appointment that basically from here out if I got into labor they're not going to do anything to stop it! Eeek! We're cramming to get the last of our baby prepping done, but I've caught myself a cold so I'm basically out for the count today. My awesome husband however is rocking at Daddy prepping, cleaning around the house and taking care of his really round and stuffy nosed wife :-) Baby Ben is running out of room and is not afraid to let his mom know it! The contortions that my stomach makes are freaky and yet very cool at the same time. Sometimes however, it goes from being cute to being flat out painful! He got me so good the other day I almost keeled over! Can't wait til I watch his little ninja moves in person!

Dual Use Monitor

We had to take Guinness to the vet today. Poor guy had a urinary blockage/infection and had to get a catheter put in. So until he goes back on Monday morning (the vet is closed on Sundays) we are on Guinness watch for the next day or so. In order to keep him from peeing all over the house he's been contained to the upstairs bathroom and we're making use of our new baby monitor! It's working so far! Lol