Our amazing friends celebrated baby girl's soon to be arrival with not only an awesome baby shower (I need pics Lou) but an after party too! Marc and I have been so humbled by the generosity of our friends! Between our work, friends and families we have literally been given everything we need to bring this child home!
We have finally finished her room. We love the way it turned out. She will never fully appreciate all the loving help and work that went into her room but I sure do.
The rest of our time has been filled with cleaning and baby prepping. Yes, her clothes are washed and our bags are sort of packed! Now all we need is her.
Dr. Seuss is one of my all time favorite authors. I don't think there is a book of his I do not love but Oh the Places You'll Go is one that I have related too 1,000 times in my life and right now we are in the "waiting place."
"The Waiting Place…for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting. "
But Baby Girl Price
"No! That’s not for you!Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying. You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. With banner flip-flapping, once more you’ll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you’re that kind of a guy!"
-Dr. Seuss
Despite Mexican food, this eggplant parmigiana http://www.wchstv.com/gmarecipes/eggplantparmigian.shtml, storms and every other natural tip to induce labor, we are making no progress or showing any signs of labor! She is apparently perfectly content where she is. Each visit to the Dr. ends with a reminder that she could be a week late. Marc and I are so ready to see her face!!!! The anticipation and waiting is driving us both crazy but wait we will. We have been so lucky throughout our pregnancy that we shouldn't start complaining now.
I did have a small scare today but again we were reminded how perfect her heartbeat was and how far away we still may be from labor!!! As a fairly active girl, I have never had an issue feeling her move until today. I did not feel her at all from the time I woke up until 10:30 a.m. 20 minutes after the phone call to the Dr., I was in Dr's office with the Doppler that picked up a perfectly normal heartbeat. Just to be sure everything was okay- I had a NST - which again showed our little girl's perfectly strong heartbeat. Apparently, baby girl was just very very tired today! We are so glad that everything is okay. The Dr. also checked my amniotic fluids which were still great and showed no other signs of labor.
So here we sit in the waiting place but we know we can't stay here forever! I promise my next post will have pictures, hopefully of our newborn!
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