Due Date Week

I can’t believe I’ve made it to this week. It’s kind of surreal. I am now 39 weeks and 3 days and am due this Friday. This week I’m feeling very grateful. Not only because it’s Thanksgiving, but because I have been healthy and well this pregnancy and my baby continues to grow and kick inside me. 

I finished work yesterday morning. It was a great last night and it went by smoothly; all my coworkers were begging to check me and get things going so they could be around to meet this little one! I didn’t let that happen, mind you. I would like some days of rest prior to having this baby. I couldn’t imagine working a 12hour shift laboring patients and then sending myself into labor right after. So, needless to say I’m taking the more natural route. I am letting things take their course and trusting that labor will ensue when it should. After all, I want this baby to come when he or she is ready. I don’t want to force anything on it just yet.

I am so grateful for the time I’ve been pregnant…Seeing that this is probably the last time I will do this, there have been many moments where I’ve just focused on my belly and the miracle growing inside me. I try to take time out every day to just enjoy my one on one time with Summer, too. Realizing that soon it will be four of us in this house and the dynamic is about to change in a big way. I’m doing my best to enjoy every moment and to focus on the present, knowing full well that contractions can start at any minute and I will be giving birth. It’s such an exciting prospect. I know I am present at labors and births every day I go to work, but something is very different about going into the hospital and being on the other side. There is something empowering about labor yet extremely vulnerable too. I wonder what will happen and how it will all transpire. I have great faith and put my trust in the higher power to get me through it. 

I am also thankful or the love and support of family and friends. The texts come in daily asking how I’m feeling and if anything is happening yet. Everyone is on pins and needles waiting to hear the news. I feel very loved and cared about. The village I choose to surround myself with is amazing and I am so very blessed to have them in my life. 

This could very well be my last Maternity Monday post. It has been lovely to be able to chronicle my pregnancy and have an anonymous group of readers along with me for the journey. Thank you to all of you out there who have read my posts and supported me through this! I feel all the positive vibes coming my way. I look forward to sharing the news of our new addition soon! Until then…

Be Well,

LEW