Waiting for baby orange

I have not forgotten about this blog and all of you wonderful ladies in my computer (that is where you live, right?!?!) I am simply too exhuasted to do much more than for which I am currently responsible. Work is a bit difficult right now and my boss left, so my transition to maternity leave got a whole lot more complicated. The class that I teach will be done in 3 weeks, and that cannot come soon enough. I think if I was not teaching, the fall would have been easier. I accepted the offer to teach again this semester in March, who knew I would be 8 months pregnant towards the end of the semester?!?!?

I am 32.5 weeks right now! It is great, but I am ready to be done. I am apparently carrying a huge child. Several women have asked me if I am having twins. (Is it ever appropriate to ask that?) And by ultrasound and fundal hight I measure 3-4 weeks ahead. I keep telling the OBs that we "grow em big" in my family. I was a nice round 10 pounds! I have ample hips though and I am not too worried about a 10 pounder. The doulas we hired are keeping me sane about this and helping me deal with the OBs who are itching to slice me open or induce me before my due date (Jan 7)...neither of which I want.

I am still working through how I want to deliver. Of course my ultimate goal is a healthy child, but I hope to be able to accomplish that with as few medical interventions as necessary. I am excited to work with the doulas and I hope they can help guide me to make the choices I want for me and my child. I am thinking about going epidural free.....we'll see.

We finally ordered nursery furniture, that was a cirus. I kept putting it off. I am not one for the evil eye, but I still felt like I was tempting fate. No matter, it is done. And with my mom's help I have all the essentials for the firth few months. To be honest I am not really sure what all that is, but there is a big pile of baby stuff in the soon-to-be-nursery. So slowly we are getting there.

Mr. M and I are starting to freaking out about what it means to be parents. Getting and staying pregnant were such consuming activities that I am not sure we really understand what awaits us on the other side. Maybe you never do though, until you get there!

Anyway as soon as class is done I hope to have more time to blog and such. I have so many things to say. And I am hoping to convince my OBs to put me out to pasture a few weeks before the due date. We have very generous disability and maternity policies at my work and it would be a shame not to use them to their full extent...right?!?!?