Thirty Eight

I looked so puffy in this picture I cropped it....all that really matters is my stomach anyway, so here it is at 38 weeks. My weekly Dr's appts are now in full swing. As of March 4th I'm dilated to a 1....woo hoo, she thinks I will have him a few days after my due date which is March 18th, and she thinks he weighs in the mid 6's right now. We have an ultra sound this Friday to confirm exactly how big he is. Thankfully she doesn't want me to have too big of a baby and she wants me to be "open" to an epidural. A few months ago I signed us up for a Labor and Delivery class and a Breastfeeding Class. The Labor and Delivery Class was awful to say the least. It was 2 different Tuesday night 3 hour classes. In our first class the teacher walked in and we knew it was going to be a long 3 hours. When she pulled up the first slide that said "Birth Is Natural" I knew Al was going to kill me....lol Needless to say we only made it through the first class for an hour. We tried again the following week and watched a movie on labor that was probably made in 1980. It was stressing me out watching it....I would rather just go with it than think about all the awful things that could happen. After the movie we left, but we did make it 1.5 hours that night!! I knew it wasn't going to be easy to convince Al to go to the breast feeding class, but since he is such a great husband he came anyway. Thankfully we had a different teacher and the 3 hours flew by. Everything was super interesting and worth learning about. It was a little awkward holding the dolls up to your shirt, but hopefully I will remember the proper holding positions from it.

Al even got to have a healthy chocolate donut and chocolate milk for breakfast. The class was a success!!