Day 3

Today is my third day overdue, and I’m feeling pretty good actually.

In an effort to keep occupied but not too busy, we made plans to meet my mom for lunch in Saskatoon. I had another one of those mornings where I woke up at pee at 6am and was too awake to fall back to sleep, but then I did sleep again at around 9am, which is super inconvenient. Either way, I was nervous I wouldn’t make for very good company over lunch, but it worked out!! We met my mom at Costco for lunch right around noon. For an added twist, our friend (and one of Dekker’s grandmas) Willa came as well, which was such a treat. We see her so rarely and probably won’t again until after baby comes, so this was a great lunch date with family!

After lunch, we did a quick walk through Costco and grabbed a few groceries, plus one impulse purchase. We LOVE the Kirkland coffee, so we bought a box of 100 K-cups of Kirkland Breakfast Blend coffee. Of course, this was a big risk, since its 100 cups and we’ve never tried this blend, but hopefully they’re delicious!! Have any of you tried them before?

We finished at Costco around 2pm and headed across the city to hit up my chiropractor for an appointment – hopefully my last before baby is born! Its been less than a week since my last appointment, so I felt kind of silly going in. I knew that lots of my pain was related to just how loosened up my body has become. And that loosening is a really good thing! But it hurts like you wouldn’t believe! In the night, if I shift, my hips pop in and out and in and out. Its excruciating. So getting up to pee takes SO much effort that I really struggle to get back to sleep. That plus my ribs plus my legs equals a really grumpy pregnant woman. Luckily Dr Mike could still work his magic and left me with some relief and still a bit more advice of how to carry myself for these next few days until baby comes!

Dekker was exhausted on the drive home, so as soon as we arrived, Brady took him in to change his diaper and put him down for a nap. He happily offered to carry in groceries after Dekker was down but I opted to make those few trips from the car to the house in an effort to get some exercise. There really wasn’t much anyway. Once baby was down and we were resting up, Brady gave me a half hour foot rub!!! It was sooo relaxing and exactly what I needed! Then he made my favorite comfort food meal for supper (chicken fingers and cheesy mashed potatoes) and we ate while Dekker slept.

Baby got up, pooped, ate, and played. When he was born we picked out puppies as “his animal” and while I know that sounds kind of silly, he has a nice collection of beautiful stuffed dogs that sit in his room. He’s really starting to love dogs recently and the last few days, he’s been picking puppies off his shelf and slowly spreading them out through the house. Today he picked the one that was given to him in the hospital. He fed it crackers, gave it kisses, and took it everywhere he took his cars, which is really saying something. Not too many things compare to his “zoom zooms.”

Our house is so quiet now and I’m feeling actually quite positive. Not so much positive like “baby is for sure coming tonight!” or anything crazy like that. Just happy with how the day played out, and I think thats all I can really ask for right now! We got out of the house, not too much, but the perfect amount. We picked up a few groceries, but just the staples we were out of. We didn’t do laundry or any real chores. We played a lot, and ate good food. And my FAVORITE thing about today is the realization that, if my body carries this baby until the latest date its allowed to before I’ll be induced, I will carry her for one more week. One. Seven days. I have carried her for over forty weeks now. I can do one more, no sweat.

Still have a tub and a snack ahead of me. Lucky girl, I know.