Final countdown

One week from today is the due date. Of course, that may or may not be the day baby arrives. People at my office say every day "you are still here?" If no baby by next Friday, the 30th, I will stop going into the office but work from home until the child comes.

We think we might have chosen a name...it's been really tough to do. And some people might not like it and some people might have already named this child in their minds, but it doesn't matter. We will name her and that will be it.

I am feeling quite large and several of my maternity tops no longer fit. The weather has gotten a bit cooler - though not really cold - so at least it is more comfortable in that regard. I manage to sleep so-so and most days feel pretty good though there have been some really tiring days.

Watch the pregnant lady grow

In this post, we will show the progression of Sarah's pregnancy with profile photos taken roughly every two weeks.

March 1

March 15

April 3

April 17

May 1

May 16

June 2

June 18

July 1

July 15

August 1

August 21

September 2

September 15
(If anybody is reading this post, this could be the last picture of Sarah pregnant that you will see!)

Turned, Turned

Baby managed to turn on her own and is still head down. Two weeks ago she was transverse - so both head and bottom were up and nothing in the lower uterus and then a week ago she was head down. I don't know exactly when she did made it into that position but I woke up one evening with this awful pain in my tailbone and the doctor said that was a good sign that she was head down. He checked and she was! And is still that way today so the appointment on Monday is cancelled. They are fairly confident that she won't reflip but who knows?

The crib has also arrived - though in a box, not put together. We will leave that for one of the sets of grandparents to take care of putting together while they are here as baby will sleep in the cradle at the beginning anyway.

We have our list of Lexi carers lined up in case baby comes before the 27th. If she comes after that, Granny and Grandpa will be here and can handle Lexi.

Our tour of the hospital was cancelled due to Hurricane Irene so we are going to go this weekend and at least figure out where we need to go for labor and delivery.

Baby and big girls

Today Lexi wanted to play at being the baby. She pretended to cry and grab at things and wanted to cuddle on my lap. She also instructed me on what to say to the baby when she was grabbing at things in the store. She and Stephen are at a baseball game this evening. She seemed interesting in going until it was actually time to go and then she started crying. We made her go anyway. I hope she settled down soon.

The baby seems to be going well and we have the turning scheduled for Sept. 19. It's a bit close to the due date but we hope that there is enough fluid/room to turn her that date. Between the doctor's, the hospital's and Stephen's schedule, that was the first available date. At the monitoring on Friday, the technician said it looks more like the baby is in a transverse position than a breech position. The head is on the upper left and the bottom is on the upper right. No parts down in the lower half of the uterus. So we will see what happens now...will she turn now on her own? Who knows??