One Week Countdown!

Today I am just one week away from my estimated due date of May 4! This week can go one of two ways. It will either go by very quickly or very slowly. Either way, I will probably be running around at the last minute, trying to get everything done and ready.

Now that I am just one week away (give or take) I am definitely feeling more anxious and excited. Surprisingly, I don't feel very scared. I think at this point I am just ready to have him out of me and see what he looks like, finally get to hold him in my arms instead of in my belly. That is my focus, so all of the fear and anxiety is kind of secondary right now. I am sure it will be a whole different story once things actually get going and I've been in labour for a couple of hours. I will probably be a mess at that point. But, for now, I'm mostly just excited and ready to meet my baby.

I really hope that I go in to labour on my own, though. At my appointment yesterday, the doctor said that if I don't have the baby by my due date, we will definitely talk about induction next week. It's not that I'm afraid of being induced, I just know that knowing when it will happen, and having time to prepare myself and think about all the things that could happen will probably cause a lot of anxiety for me. So, I am definitely hoping that I go in to labour by my due date.

Having said that, if I go one day past May 4, I will be begging for the induction! This little guy isn't staying a moment more than he needs to! I'm ready for him to come out and I'm pretty sure he would enjoy a little more room to practise all of those crazy moves. He's getting quite cramped in there.

I still feel like he is a huge baby. Yesterday, my belly measured at 41 cm, or 41 weeks. Yikes. I am 39 weeks today. However, the doctor continues to insist that he is just the right size baby for me. I definitely hope he is right, because one of my biggest fears about delivery is having to push out a ten pound baby. I am hoping for a 7.5 lb baby. That would be my ideal. But, like everything else, I will just have to wait and see.