39 weeks

1 week to go! We have been ready for a while now, so at this point, we are just plain antsy. It is just a waiting game now. My day starts around 12 or 1pm (usually 1 as we get closer to the due date) and I start off with a bowl of cereal, chocolate milk, and cup of decaf coffee. By the time I finish breakfast, Meatball is ready to go potty, so I grab a "fake out bag" and we brave the heat. Jonathan has named said "fake out bag", because I will grab a plastic bag just in case someone is watching when Meatball poops. But then I just stall until they walk away so I don't have to actually bend down to pick it up and walk even further to the trash. Luckily, the apartment complex is usually dead at this time during the week. When we come back in, it's time for me to watch A Baby Story on TLC and cry through the two episodes.

By then, it's 2:00, and I'm ready for lunch. Afterwards, I can usually find the energy to clean up around the house. Sometimes, I'd rather lay down for a nap... these days will be over soon!! I finally muster up the energy to shower around 4, which gets me ready right before Jonathan comes home from school. It is the same thing every day, and I am going stir crazy waiting for the little one to get here!

Here is what babycenter.com has to say about us this week:

How Eli's growing:
"Your baby's waiting to greet the world! He continues to build a layer of fat to help control his body temperature after birth, but it's likely he already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds, a mini watermelon. (Boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls.) The outer layers of his skin are sloughing off as new skin forms underneath. See what your baby looks like this week."

How I'm changing:
"At each of your now-weekly visits, your caregiver will do an abdominal exam to check your baby's growth and position. She might also do an internal exam to see whether your cervix has started ripening: softening, effacing (thinning out), and dilating (opening). But even armed with this information, there's still no way for your caregiver to predict exactly when your baby is coming. If you go past your due date, your caregiver will schedule you for fetal testing (usually a sonogram) after 40 weeks to ensure that it's safe to continue the pregnancy. If you don't go into labor on your own, most practitioners will induce labor when you're between one and two weeks overdue — or sooner if there's an indication that the risk of waiting is greater than the risks of delivering your baby without further delay. While you're waiting, it's important to continue to pay attention to your baby's movements and let your caregiver know right away if they seem to decrease. Your baby should remain active right up to delivery, and a noticeable slowdown in activity could be a sign of a problem. Also call if you think your water may have broken. Membranes rupture before the beginning of labor in about 8 percent of term pregnancies. Sometimes there's a big gush of fluid, but sometimes there's only a small gush or a slow leak. (Don't try to make the diagnosis yourself. Call even if you only suspect you have a leak.) If you rupture your membranes and don't start contractions on your own, you'll be induced."