Still Waiting . . .

Well, no baby yet. I do feel like I’ve got everything ready now, just about. I got all of the baby clothes out and put onto the shelves, and I set out the coming-home-from-the-hospital clothes, Courtland’s new red fleece manta (blanket) that I made him, the infant carseat, and the winter carseat cover, so those are all ready to go to the hospital. I scheduled a photo of all 5 boys for the end of February. And I got down the basinet and put it out in our bedroom. And I went on eBay to find a baby book for Courtland (since the baby books that I’ve used for the other boys have been discontinued at the Hallmark stores, so I have to find one online if I want it to be the same size and style as the others). I found one that would work and I bid on it, but I just found out that I didn’t win it on eBay. So, that’s the only thing I don’t have ready yet, I’ll have to find another baby book. Maybe that’s what Courtland’s waiting for – he doesn’t want to come until we have everything totally prepared for him. :)

I have been feeling like I’ve been pretty good about being patient for the end of this pregnancy (probably since I know from experience by now that it is more work and you get less sleep after the baby comes, no matter how uncomfortable you get at the end of the pregnancy). But I have to admit that when I had those contractions for two hours a week ago and I thought we would be heading to the hospital that night to have the baby (since none of my previous pregnancies have ever had contractions for that long that have just stopped like that before) that I have been a little less patient since then. Not that I’ve been really impatient, but I keep thinking that any little thing could be the beginning of labor. After a week of that (and not really having any more contractions to speak of) I have decided that it’s not going to happen. This pregnancy has been different than my last couple – I haven’t had Braxton Hicks contractions since nearly as early on as I did with Camden and Isaac, and now it’s almost the end and I still am not having them regularly at all (not even having them every day). So, now that we are nearly a week from the due date, I have decided that this baby may wait for his induction date to come (at least we have an induction tentatively scheduled for February 10th, the day after the due date, so that it’s not just a wait for who knows how long until the baby finally decides to come). We’ll just have to wait and see (but at least thinking that way is better than thinking that it is going to happen every day between now and then and being disappointed when it doesn’t happen yet). [Although I am glad that it looks like he won’t come today, since it is Eli’s birthday and I didn’t want two of our kids to have to share a birthday – even having birthdays a day apart would still be better than having to share your special day, I figure]. Anyways, I think that no matter how hard you try to be patient, that once you get down to the last week or so it gets hard not to have it on your mind all the time, especially when you know what a big change it will be for you and your family. So, I guess I’ll just keep waiting . . .