I know, I know...it has been ages since I posted on here. I think it's a sign of how much I am done being pregnant! The newness has worn off and now I am just large and miserable...hard to be witty on blog when you hate to pull yourself out of bed! But enough whining...let me update everyone on the craziness of the last few weeks and the days to come!First, let me get the big news out of the way....we have a name!! For those who haven't heard yet, our son will be Gavin Michael Spencer Keyes. Kevin still isn't 100% on board with the 2 middle names yet, but since this will most likely be the only child, we needed to kill to birds with one stone on the middle names. Michael is for Kevin's step dad who passed away and Spencer is obviously my maiden name. I didn't want it as a first name (thanks Spencer Pratt for tarnishing the name) but it works in the middle. We both liked the name Gavin, as it's not super common, but not totally out there either. Plus with his rockstar persona he can easily be compared to Gavin Rosdale (singer and husband to Gwen Steffani)!
The picture attached is me at 38 weeks, 3 days. Many people didn't think I would make it this long, myself included! I think that is what's making the waiting game that much harder. My last ultrasound was on Aug 5th and the due date that was calculated then was 8/19. Well that has come and gone. The date is inaccurate because we are just having a giant child. He was measuring at 7lb 9oz at that point and still had a month to simmer! My doctor is doing another ultrasound Thursday to see where he is at now and then we'll talk about if we need to induce due to size. If he is gaining at the rate they said (at least 9oz a week) he should be 9lb 5oz this week. I think that's plenty big!! Luckily my doctor doesn't push c-sections unless they are necessary so unless there is a problem during labor we're going to try and do it the old fashioned way (but with some drugs of course!)
Because I thought Gavin would be making his debut a little sooner, I tried out some old wives tales to no avail. There is an Italian restaurant here in GA that is famous for it's eggplant Parmesan causing women to go into labor. I went to their website and got the recipe and we made it at home. Nothing. I have been taking Evening Primrose Oil because it's suppose to help soften the cervix. Nothing. Walking a bit even though I am supposed to be off my feet. Nothing. Doing the deed that got us to the place even though I don't want to. Nothing. So...I guess Gavin is already proving to be stubborn and working off his own agenda. :)
Besides all the baby hoopla, we closed on a house earlier this month. We are so excited to have a nice bigger place to move into once the baby is here. All of our stuff was moved in last weekend so now we just need to unpack and organize. Easier said than done at 9 months pregnant! I do a lot of supervising! We got most of the nursery put together yesterday and are going back tomorrow to do some more. The last 2 weekends Kevin and my parents did some painting, plus we had tile laid in the master bath. Everything looks good so far and as it comes together I'll get pics out.
On a less positive note, my dad has to go in to the hospital tomorrow to get a stint put in his heart. For those that don't know, he had a quintuple bypass 10 years ago and now his arteries are clogging again. We all have our fingers crossed that they will be able to just go with the stints and not have to do another bypass. We tried to lighten the mood by saying he and I could be roommates at the hospital if we could get Gavin to come tomorrow too...but don't think that's going to happen. Thank you to all who have already put Dad in your prayers!!
Ok folks....I'll post again after my Thursday appointment. I really have no excuse since I have been off work a month for not being on here more other than sheer laziness! :)
