So the blob will be evicted on April 4th if he does not decide to come before then. Went to my midwife appointment today, and she checked things, still having contractions, a bit more ready, but not much. However, looking at my chart she saw they didn’t want me to go to term with the blob because he is so big. Which makes me quite happy.

So she went to check to see when we could schedule an induction. Monday and Tuesday were both full in Labor and Delivery, but Wednesday they had room. So Wednesday April 4th the blob will be appearing, if he doesn’t decide to come before then. I check in Tuesday night, and they start the induction drugs on Wednesday morning, and hopefully he arrives in short order after that.

It is so nice knowing we have a day when he will definitely be here by. I don’t mind if he comes before then, but knowing he will be here by that day is just nice.

So last Friday I noticed I was having contractions every 3 to 5 minutes for a minute. Okay general knowledge says to call when that happens. So I did and got to go to Labor and Delivery, where it was determined, yes you are contracting, no nothing else is happening, bye. Sunday they were a bit worse and I could actually feel them and the baby was moving less then normal, so back in we went. Found I had an UTI, got 2 liters of fluid and antibiotics and sent home 8 hours later, yay or something.

Still contracting mind you. They didn’t stop or get much worse, so Wednesday went to my Midwife appointment, still contracting, nothing else had changed so got a make your appointment for next week, bye. By this point in time contractions are getting really annoying, since it has been 6ish days without them stopping. Thursday shocking I was still contracting, and today yep, still contracting. Nothing really changing, but still contracting.

And there is nothing I can do about it. I am just hoping the blob decides he is ready to show up soon (today would be nice) so the dang contractions will stop.

Had a measurement ultrasound today. Didn’t get any pictures, should have asked, oh well. Anyways he is definitely a boy, no question at all about that. Oh and he is a big boy. At 36 and a half weeks he weighs 7 and a half pounds. Eek! and the general growth of babies the last month or so is half a pound every week, which means he could be over 9 pounds when he is born. That is really kind of scaring me. I’ll get to have another ultrasound in about 2 weeks, so we can check his size again, since if he is still really big at 39 weeks, I’ll probably end having to induce, which I really would prefer not to do.

Then again to be fair I would prefer to go to sleep and wake in the morning with a newborn next to me, rather then go through any labor. I still have this anti-drug thing going on, and I have a feeling from what I’ve heard if they do induce I am going to want an epidural, which isn’t a happy idea, but I’ll deal if it happens.

In other news he has a ton of hair can’t tell if it is thick or thin, but there is a lot of it, which is kind of an odd thing you can see on an ultrasound. Anyways it appears I have a huge blob arriving soon with a lot of hair. Eek!

So I meant to do this, this past weekend, but didn’t end up doing so. Anyways my bags are now packed for the hospital, so I guess that means I am ready whenever the blob decides to appear, at least bags packed wise.

They are missing a few things, I need to make a mix cd or 3 of my various iTunes music for relaxation during labor (or some such thing). I also need to wash one more outfit for the blob to possibly come home in (okay so I over packed for him at the hospital, but baby clothes are soooo cute). I also need to charge the battery in my camera and the big camera so they won’t run out of batteries once the blob arrives. No I am not taking pictures of his birth, ick eww. I am taking newborn pictures though since he’ll be out then and cute (all babies are cute it is the law).

I think I’m mostly ready though, and packing the bag makes it even more real, since that means I am expecting him to arrive soon. Still holding out for him to arrive on his due date though since I just think it would be cool if he arrived on Easter since I was born on Easter.

The blob is coming soon, hence all the blob related posts. I’m sure once he’s here it won’t get much better, sorry (well not really, it’s my blog about my boring life so I can write about whatever I want too).

The crib and changing table arrived on Friday, yay! So now he has somewhere else to sleep (he had a co-sleeper and a pack and play already, he’ll probably start in the co-sleeper (bassinet) and end up in the crib when I can’t sleep with him right next to me. The crib looks really nice and the changing table is decent. We’re still waiting on his dresser, it is suppose to arrive sometime the middle of this month, so hopefully it will be here before he is. Overall though his room is almost all finished, yay!

We had the breastfeeding class last Thursday, best class of the three we signed up for. The person leading it was knowledgeable, the info seemed relevant and useful to have, and overall it didn’t feel like a waste like the other two classes we did. Definitely a nice change. Oh and for once I wasn’t the one with the furthest out due date, though I was second furthest out (but there were 2 people there due 1 day before me and 1 due 2 days before me, so I really wasn’t that far out at all).

My last OB/GYN appointment went fine, I’m down to weekly appointments, eek we’re getting close. I get another Ultrasound on Thursday because they want to check on him and see how big or small he is at this point. I’ll be 36 and a half weeks then so we’ll see how he looks and such.

Otherwise, we’ve been working on the house. We put up some shelves this weekend, bought baskets for various places, tried to put up the new closet system and realized that the master closet butts the firewall, which is a pain, since now we need to find cinder block drill bits (fun or something). Dan also put together the baby swing last night and it looks good. So hopefully we’re mostly ready for the blob whenever he decides to appear.

In other baby news, we think we’re going to try cloth diapers. We both sort of wanted to use them from the beginning but got talked out of them by various relatives. We decided we still want to try and see how they work, even though everyone claims they are a lot more work. So we ordered a couple to see how they work, and figure if they don’t we’ll go disposable since we haven’t made a full investment in cloth diapers yet, until we see how they go.

Other then that not much new going on here, just getting everything ready for the blob to appear.

Well I took my 3 hour Gestational Diabetes test and didn’t pass. Sigh, I was really close to passing to, if my blood sugar had been one lower after 3 hours I would have passed (it needed to be under 140 it was at 140). I got my testing kit and such and it is tons of fun to prick my fingers 4 times a day, really, highlight of the day right now…

In other baby related news, my baby shower was on Saturday. It was nice, had lots of fun, saw a bunch of my relatives and got a bunch of nice gifts for the baby. I love the scrapbook album my aunt made me, it is great.

My Mom came to the house on Sunday (after the shower on Saturday). My sister was here for about 10 minutes too till she had to go to the airport to catch her plane home. It was snowing Sunday so she didn’t get to spend much time here. My Mom has been here since Sunday though. Sunday we had plans, but because of the storm we didn’t get anything done. Monday we went shopping, bought some IKEA furniture for the living room and dining room and a bunch of baby stuff, that we needed for the blob. We also went out Tuesday and bought a couple of nice carpets to put over the wood floors we just had installed on the first floor. They are really nice, atty picked them up. My Mom also cleaned the house some getting our bedroom in order (we’ve been procrastinating about it) and worked on the blob’s room some though there isn’t much that can be done in there until the furniture arrives. She also painted the front hall and the dining room, and has decided our walls suck (which isn’t a surprise since they do). She leaves tonight so we’ll have a fairly quiet weekend, though we’ll be putting together the IKEA stuff and setting up the living room and dining room.

Other then that not much new going on.

From my sister. She is coming to the baby shower, but since she has to fly up from Atlanta she shipped the gift to us. It is our travel system (stroller and carseat combo). It is really nice, but really really big. You don’t realize how big they are in the store since they are surrounded by a bunch of other ones, but in the dining room it is much more obvious. It is really nice though and we need to check and make sure the carseat fits in my car correctly then we’ll throw out the box.

Other then that not much else going on, had my Midwife appointment on Friday and a measuring about a week ahead so just right. the baby is already head down, which is nice, hopefully he won’t shift in the next 8 weeks.

We went shopping to IKEA but they were out of the pieces we needed, hopefully they’ll have them in soon. Did a bunch of other errands as well. Other then that, big storm suppose to be coming through the area starting this evening, so we’ll see how bad it is. Otherwise I live a pretty boring life right now.

So we dropped K off overnight last night. Mainly because he was super hyper and it was super cold so he won’t be getting a walk and we didn’t want to deal with him. Nice thing about having a dog instead of a baby, though that will change in 2 months or so eeek! Took over an hour at the store though, we picked up his various medicines at the Vets and had to wait a bit to get them, then we checked him in fairly quickly. However, we had to go sign up for group training for him (the Intermediate training class) and had to wait for the trainer to see if we could sneak in the full class that starts tomorrow rather then the one that starts in a month and won’t be over before the baby was born.

Went out to dinner after that, waitress was eh, fairly slow, food was decent or as decent as Red Lobster ever is. Then went grocery shopping so we now have food in the house which is a good thing. Called my Mom when I got home and talked to her for awhile. Apparently she may be up this weekend, eek guess we need to clear out the guest bedroom some so she can sleep if she actually comes. Looks like my baby shower is confirmed for the 24th of Feb at least at this point in time. Should be nice to see everyone then, will bring the two older gaming machines we’ve replaced, one for my Grandparents and one for my Aunt’s school since we don’t need them anyways.

Not much going on with my parents, not that much going on here either other then that fact atty is now an official employee at his job, yay! We are pleased. Yay cheap health insurance again. That’s about everything. The blob is good, and kicking and I just passed 30 weeks on Sunday, dang it is starting to feel close now…

So I went to take the test yesterday, wasn’t expecting 3 vials of blood to be drawn, but I can deal with it. Got the results today, I failed. Blegh that means I have to go back next week for the 3 hour test and 4 blood draws that is just going to make my day (plus the whole fasting from midnight till it is over thing is going to make me sooo happy). Sigh, oh well, hopefully I’ll pass the 3 hour one and not have to worry about it again until the next time I end up spawning.

Well we think we’ve decided on the blob’s name. We are 99% certain it will be Desmond Kiran, we’re still discussing last names though because we really aren’t sure what we want to do there. Most likely he’ll end up as Singhal, but could end up as a Rosenberg or even something completely new, we just haven’t decided yet.

The other thing I need to do is come up with a Hebrew name for him. Fortunately there aren’t any relatives he has to be named after, unfortunately this means we need to come up with a Hebrew name for him, without naming him after someone, which would have been easy since then you just use their Hebrew name. *Shrug* that’s life I guess, and I’m quite happy that no one has died that he needs to be named after, so all in all finding a Hebrew name for him is a good thing. Now I just need to figure out what it will be.