The Daily Hailey

Nope, I haven’t had the baby yet.

Normally, we would have attended church this morning, but feeling a little discouraged, I decided to avoid having to answer all the questions and just stay home. I know me, and I know that having to say over and over again that I am, in fact, past my due date would either cause me to cry in front of everyone, or just break down once we had left. So we stayed home.

I was so excited this morning, though. I woke up at 6am to pee, and I realized that I had been having contractions all night. Real ones. Painful ones. Obviously they weren’t horrendous because I would fall back to sleep once they were over, but I had them pretty much all night. When I woke up at 6am and realized this, I got really excited to start monitoring and timing them. And then they quit. I think I had one more all day. Sigh. So I went from hopeful to hopeless pretty quickly. I’m just hoping it bodes well for delivery in the near future! However, I was more than annoyed that my contractions had quit, so I was awake. Brady woke up shortly after and we watched some Netflix. As tends to happen on mornings like these, I was exhausted again by about 8:30 and Brady was then wide awake. So I slept for TWO HOURS while Brady detailed our car. Dekker slept the whole morning away, which helped. We all took our time getting up and getting ready for the day.

We had my parents over the for the afternoon and evening. They came and played with Dekker until he (and my dad) needed a nap, and then Brady, my mom and I went downstairs to watch Pitch Perfect. I love that movie. I always feel somewhat uplifted after watching it.

Supper was around 6:30, and was sooo delicious! I had prepared honey chicken on rice, and my parents brought fresh corn on the cob!! There was the perfect amount of food, with one one small container of chicken and sauce leftover. I hesitated even keeping it, but there was too much chicken in it to throw it away. If it was just sauce, I would have considered it. But no.

Dekker had a pretty solid meltdown after everyone left, so figuring it was only ten minutes before his normal bedtime, we’d get him ready. He cried the whole time. We opted out of bedtime playing and cuddles as well, and just put him to bed. He was finished. Going to bed it hard. I get it. And really, lots of kids struggle with bedtime from a very early age. We’re only really starting to see it in these last few months, so I can’t complain.

Ok, the day is done, and the bath is run. Woah, accidental rhyme. I did enjoy the day, but my request for all of you tonight is this: My doctor is on call TOMORROW and not again until next week. I would LOVE for her to deliver me, and if I don’t have baby girl tomorrow I will delivered by another doctor from her group. I was delivered by a different doctor last time and it was fine, but I really love my doctor, and would also love to have this baby in my arms. So PRAYERS FOR DELIVERY TOMORROW would be much appreciated!

** Last thing! Thanks to everyone who replied to my Facebook post about wanting to crochet. I’m excited to get on some projects, being that its officially fall!