Term Limits

I'm sort of one day early, but I'm calling it since going into labor in the next 12hrs really isn't going to happen. But we are now full-term on the baby at 37 weeks! I wasn't terribly worried about going into pre-term labor even with with the onsie, twosie contractions, but I am still relieved to hit this milestone. Since we were not planning to birth in a hospital and have instead chosen to use a birthing center with Nurse Midwives, this makes it possible. Only normal pregnancies are allowed to use the birth centers, so any high-risk complications like pre-term or multiples are by default sent to the hospital and for good reason, so I'm not knocking it. One big hurdle crossed for us this week.

In anticipation of this milestone too, John and I spent Saturday in the house prep mode for "if the baby comes today what do we need" which included a shopping trip for some random items. But this weekend we now have the diaper changing box together, the pack n play (where the baby will sleep in our room to start), clothes washed and folded, and everything else all setup and ready to go. The last major item is putting the car seat in the cars and getting the diaper bag in the mail (at least for the what needs to be done now catagory).

Otherwise the weekend was busy with me giving a Monopoly whopping to John, Brent, and Alicia Saturday night who were all simultaneously trying not to go bankrupt to me. They all went into don't lose mode and it didn't work out so well for Brent which ended the game. Sunday was Texans tailgating and game with my work this time and then Jen M's baby non-shower for the twins. Busy weekend but a good one.