Labor Watch: Happy Due Date to Us

Today is Baby L's due date! It's the date we've been waiting on since we found out that I was pregnant back in September. It's hard to believe that it's finally here...and Baby Lamont is still cooking!

In celebration of this milestone, I got a manicure/pedicure and we had a delicious dinner of mac n cheese and ground beef (enjoying my last few days of eating whatever I want) and broccoli (see, I got my veggies). Tomorrow we have an ultrasound to check fluid levels and a Dr's appointment. Ironically, I had to call today and find out what time the appointment was because I didn't listen last week- I thought there was no way I'd be making it to that appointment.

I realize many of these questions have been answered in the other posts this week, but here's the 40 week summary...

**How Big is Baby?: To be updated tomorrow, post-ultrasound

**Maternity clothes? Please, no more!

**Total weight gain: Up 26lbs. But who cares at this point?

**Stretch marks? One, but Baby L is pushing out so I'm afraid there will be more.

**Sleep: Fine. Sadly not being awoken by contractions. Just a few pee breaks.

**Movement: Lots of movement most days.

**Food cravings: Things that I won't be able to have or want to have post-baby...Chocolate, lots of carbs and cheese, etc.

**Feeling: Pretty good. I'm a little frustrated that the baby isn't here but kind of excited to answer the "When are you due?" question with "today" or "yesterday"...but hopefully never "last week"...

**Emotions: Mostly I'm pretty happy, but I've had my teary moments. Better than last week! And definitely better since I accepted the fact that the baby will come on his or her own time.

**Health/Exercise: Walking, but running as much as I feel up to it. Trying to shake my body into labor. It clearly has not worked.

**Labor Signs: More false labor pains on Saturday and last night. Actually, I'm still carrying the baby pretty high and he/she is kicking my ribs so I haven't had the pre-labor "drop". But I don't think that means much because my mom said that none of us ever dropped. For those of you who care, I have not lost my MP (and if you don't know what that is, you don't want to).

**Next Doctor's Appointment: Tomorrow.

**Best moment this week: Mother's Day brunch at CoCo Sala. Have I mentioned that I have the best husband???

Labor Watch: STILL preg

Not much to report- some contractions Saturday that weren't terrible and went away. Sunday I was sad for a bit about not being a mom for Mother's Day, but Stephen cheered me up AND took me for a lovely brunch at a delicious chocolate-themed restaurant that I had been dying to try (CoCo Sala- I highly recommend it). How could I be sad when I have such a great husband and a baby coming any day (and with a chocolate dessert buffet!)?

Last night we found a lost dog- a sweet little male Yorkie mix. We spent about an hour looking for his owners (who we thought would be out looking for him). We brought him in and he drank and ate ravenously so perhaps he was missing for a while. He slept in our bathroom and didn't make a peep. Stephen brought him to the animal shelter today :-( Hopefully his owners will turn up there and claim him because we certainly can't have another dog (and this emotional mother-to-be can't think about him being left at the shelter...or worse).

Today jogged some (like 12 minutes total), walked, and went to work. Overall I feel great. We'll keep you posted about Baby L being in the 5% of babies who come on their due date.

Labor Watch: Still Preg

Despite eggplant parm, tons of walking, and gardening/weeding this morning, all I've got is a backache. We're going to enjoy a beautiful day and hopefully find an outdoor bar to watch the Yanks/Sox game (GO YANKEES).