Happy Week 39, 7 pound mini watermelon!
So much to report about you and our lives together. Mommy had an OB appointment today and she is now 1 cm dilated, which is SOME sign of progress. The unfortuntate part is that you could come within hours or weeks. I’m excited to meet you; I’m just seeing Mommy very uncomfortable so I’d like her to feel better.
When Mommy visits the OB now, twice a week, she has to do her “routine,” which consists of a urine test and a weighing. She has been fine with finishing the routine except now that she can’t see where her pee comes out, and they give her a small Dixie cup, that she dribbles when she leaves her specimen. She’s tried to tell the receptionists and nurses that their routine needs to supply some women with bigger cups.
This weekend, on October 20th, Mommy and I will mark our first wedding anniversary! I wrote Mommy a love sonnet for the “paper” anniversary. I haven’t written a sonnet in a long time so it took some time to get it the way I wanted it. It was presented to Mommy on Saturday (1 week early) with a dozen roses. Unfortunately, I gave away our long-stemmed rose vase to Goodwill (I swear I didn’t do it but I can’t find it so it must have happened during one of my summer cleaning rampages), so I had to run with Clementine to QFC to pick up a new one. Mommy is in enough of a late term pregnancy stupor that she has forgotten about it.
Both your Grandmothers are checking in about every day now, wanting to hear of any progress. Grammy Nell is on the mend.
When I got home with Boo after our walk this evening, Mommy informed us that her mucus plug had come out. That is a good sign! The mucous plug is a snot-like membrane that serves as a stopper into Mommy so you don’t fall out! Losing the plug is another sign that you are on your way out very soon.
Mommy spent a long day at work along with a trip to the OB to do her “routine” and a stress test, so she wasn’t in the mood to fix anything for dinner. I took it on and prepared a creamy quinoa primavera with chicken.
I have a feeling we’ll be meeting you very soon, Lucky. Then you’ll have a new name. Rest well and see you soon.
Love, Daddy