6 Days Left (Hopefully Less)

Dear Sprout:
Well, there are 6 days left until your due date. I will probably cry if by then you aren't in my arms yet. On Halloween I had my 38 week appointment although I was only 37 weeks and 6 days, but I had a busy day on Thursday so I couldn't go right at 38 weeks. I was anticipating getting an exam and being checked for dilation, but when the nurse had me go in the room she said he wouldn't check me until 38 weeks. I was kind of irritated because I was curious to know what was happening down there!
Then that night on the way to pick up your brother from daycare and to get ready for trick or treating I was having some crampy Braxton Hicks contractions and a few were 5-7 minutes apart. I was a bit concerned but ignored them since we had a full night ahead of us! By the time we were done trick or treating with your brother, we had some dinner at grandmas and I just felt extremely tired out and my stomach was upset and I was still getting the contractions.
I went home, took a hot shower, drank some water and went to sleep. It all stopped then.
So life went on as normal. I am bouncing on the ball all the time. Grandma came over last Saturday and shampooed the carpet in our bedroom and your bedroom and helped get a few things organized for me.
Daddy FINALLY got down the pack and play, swing and bouncey seat, so I got all those cleaned up and ready to go. Well, not the pack and play, but maybe I'll do that this weekend. I got your carseat Bundle Me insert all in there and it hooked to the base so daddy just has to grab it and get it in his truck when it's time for us to come home.
All that I really have left to do is sterilize bottles & pump parts and buy new bottle nipples. I need to get you a crib mattress & mattress pad still, but that can be done anytime. I plan to redo your room depending on what you are. If you are a boy then we will do a sports theme and if you're a girl we will do an owl theme. I have everything I want for both all saved in my cart on Amazon ready to be ordered. Then I'll need someone to help paint your room. I don't want to keep it yellow.
I've been buying a few boy items and a few girl items here and there. I did buy a Thanksgiving outfit for you that can work for a boy or girl and then I bought a girl Christmas outfit since by the time you get here and I get around to shopping all the Christmas outfits will be picked over. And I bought you a boy onesie that matches your brother's shirt and then a boy fleexe sleeper and a girl fleece sleeper and a girl outfit. So we'll see what we get to keep and what needs to be returned!!

I had my 39 week appointment yesterday. I was eager to get an exam. I thought for sure all those crampy Braxton Hicks last week did something! So Dr. Dodard came in and did the exam. He said that my cervix wasn't doing much of anything and I was maybe a fingertip dilated. Then he did some swooshing around in there and said it would hurt a little but he was trying to help things along. I've heard of Drs "stimulating" the cervix to help release a hormone that will make you dilate....so hopefully that works. I expected to be crampy or maybe have a little something afterwards, but I didn't.
I have thought for a while now that you would be bigger than Teagan (7.13) so I asked the dr to take a guess at what he thought you might weigh. He felt around and decided that you'd probably weighed about 7.5-7.6 right now and that you definitely wouldn't be tipping the 8lb mark. So that was good to hear. I told him how I thought you felt bigger and he said it could be the way you're positioned. Your head is down, but you're still pretty high up.

We have a big weekend planned. Tonight I do my last Passion Party, well last one until after you're born and we're settled and I get back into things. Then tomorrow me, Teagan, grandma, Aunt Linny & Aunt Erin are all going down to Syracuse shopping all day. So that'll be a whole day on my feet. Which at this point that's what I need. Then Sunday I'm going to make a big pot of chicken noodle soup for daddy and Teagan to live off of while we're in the hospital next week (hopefully) and we're going to Great Grandma Cole's for an early Thanksgiving dinner celebration since Uncle Rocky is home visiting from Alaska. Then I intend to work a 1/2 day on Monday and afterward go get a pedicure and maybe a massage and then pick up any last minute things I need still. Then I hope to go into labor Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
That's the plan, so let's follow suit little Sprout! :-)
And in case this plan falls through, then I need to use my next 15 minutes of work today to get everything wrapped up...you never know, you could decide to come this weekend!
I love you to the moon and back and I can't wait to meet you!
Love,
Mommy