Just Waiting

Well, I'm officially on maternity leave. With my company's generous policy of giving 6 months time off, me getting increasingly uncomfortable sitting in an office chair all day long and my labor seeming inevitable, I called it quits until July and Friday was my last day.

I was hoping to have at least 3 days to get a few things done around the house before this baby decided to make his grand entrance. Unfortunately, 5 days later I've gotten my wish and then some. At this point, I'm okay with not having any more time to get things done. I've ticked off so little off my pre baby to do list that it would be somewhat ideal to have more time to get a bit more accomplished but my energy level has been so low that it would probably take another month to get even just a portion of the list done. So, I don't care about it anymore. I'm ready to have this baby.

I had my weekly appointment today. It included an ultrasound and an exam. The ultrasound showed that this baby probably weighs in the vicinity of 7-7.5 pounds and it scored 8 out of 8 on the health checks it did. Already a high scoring tester. All right! While things look great and healthy all around, there's no knowing when this guy is coming. Next week if I make it to my appointment (god I hope I don't have to wait that long) she'll start doing some tricks that sometimes help your body go into labor. If I still haven't had the baby by the 20th, my doctor assures me that she'll do what she can to get me in to be induced asap.

Pretty cool picture of the face we got during today's ultrasound.
Hard to say for sure, but I think this is going to be one cute baby!

So, how am I spending my time? Shuffling around pretty slowly. Getting up and ready in the morning is just completely exhausting. It's pretty pathetic but standing up long enough to shower and brush my teeth is absolutely torture to my back. By the time I've had breakfast, I'm pretty much ready for a nap. When Dylan goes down for his afternoon nap, I'm usually not far behind.

In between sleeping times, we've been doing a little decor work on the guest bedroom. It's going to be seeing some folks sleeping in it pretty soon and there's not much more to do to make it "done" in my mind. Over the last 5 days, we did one little paint project in there and bought and installed a new light fixture. If baby waits another day, it's possible I'll even have a completed room picture to show!

More importantly, I've been trying to get the nursery decorated. Everyone keeps saying that it doesn't have to be done now and I know and agree with that. Bambino's not even going to be sleeping in there for a few months and won't care how it looks for much longer than that. However, time is not something I'm going to have more of once said kid comes around so it would be ideal to get it done now. I'm pretty much doubting completion will happen, but progress is happening slowly but surely. As I've spent a lot of time and energy on planning this room, I won't give away the full theme of it, but I'll show what I did today on it for your sneak peak:

Other than those things, we've had a few play dates, hung out at home a good bit and I just move from location to location trying to find some position that will give me some kind of comfort for a small bit of time. I have to admit, I'm feeling pretty lousy and ready not to feel this way anymore. I'm ridiculously tired, queasy a good bit of the time, having lots of back pain and lots of pain in lots of places I just don't want to talk about publicly. I'm a mess, have been for a while and hoping not to be for too much longer.