post #100

I am officially in countdown mode. As much as I do enjoy being pregnant and having this baby all to myself… and as much as labor and delivery still scare the crap out of me… I am at the point where I am counting down the days (32!) until my due date. My back hurts all day every day. I wake up several times during the night either out of discomfort or the constant need to pee. My maternity clothes, which were literally tents when I purchased some of them in March, are starting to feel too small. I was in so much pain on Tuesday that I actually considered that I might have been going into labor – which freaked me out. Due to this minor freak out (oh, and nothing was even wrong!) we decided we need to pack our hospital bag this weekend just in case. We’re also going to the police station so they can install our car seat base and explain the gibberish instructions to us… we’re not stupid, we just prefer to have it done right, the first time, by a professional… and the hospital recommends it.

Speaking of the hospital, we went on our tour of the maternity ward last night after work. First of all, the labor and delivery rooms are much larger than the rooms in the family care center (post-partum)… which was weird because you would think the post-partum rooms would be more accommodating to visitors. On the plus side, the labor and delivery rooms are really nice and large and have windows and are all private. Can you imagine going through labor with another patient sharing your room? Not happening. One of the nurses in the maternity ward ended up being a girl we went to high school (and me, to college) with. Not sure how I feel about that. Steve is comfortable with it and said he actually prefers having a nurse that we know… but he did acknowledge the fact that he isn't the one pushing a watermelon out of his body so he probably doesn’t understand where I’m coming from. Other than that, we learned a good amount of information about what our stay will be like and how to order food and where our family will wait for the news… now baby Ryan just needs to keep cooking a little while longer.

Earlier in my pregnancy I had read about how dogs can sense that you're pregnant and their behavior towards you may start to change (ie. being overprotective, etc)... we laughed that off because there was no way our dogs were sensing anything. Until now. Luke is literally attached to me at the hip (more like my knee or thigh, I guess) and follows me around from room to room every waking moment. He lays his head across my belly when we're on the couch and he snuggles up to me with these eyes that can only read: "please don't forget about me"... it's so sad. I've tried to give him extra cuddles lately because he seems a little distraught.

My dad is coming back October 3rd – I’m hoping she can hold on that long! I think she can do it. I predict an October 6th birthday (one week past my due date).

Watch me be WAY off.