Kathy chasties the boy for keeping here prisoner in Canada for 3.5 weeks.
Second Grandchild!!
Its big out here!

Finally!

It's a Boy!!

So apparently the castor oil worked this time and we have a new little soul in our house.
At 4:44pm today a little boy showed up with the cord wrapped around his neck twice. Once they got that sorted out everything was fine. He is 7 pounds 5 ounces and was 52 cm in length.
He has been looking around a fair bit and is very interested in nipples. Anne and the baby are doing fine.

So the midwives have gone and Anne, Maya, the baby, and myself are sitting in bed eating.

No we have not picked name yet, it will probably be a week or two. It took that long for Maya's name.

Looking at him now is far less scare than it was when Maya arrived. What is much more scare is foreknowledge of the mountains of diapers. :P

In related news, today Anne pushed a 7 and a quarter pound thing out of her vagina today. Ouch!! :(

More castor oil....

Tring MORE castor oil today plus some other stuff with the midwife. This is crunch time as the babe is just about 42weeks gestation and risks assoicated with going post term rise around now. I had a dating u/s around 6weeks so we know the dates are right. It would be really nice to have a baby 07/09/28.

Awkward Questions

I feel like when you are married with no kids and everybody asks constantly when you are going to have kids......re 'when is that baby going to come'.

You just want to start hitting people after awhile.

Big Baby

By the time this hesitant baby boy comes out it might be setting a new weight record.

Not the day

We thought today would be the day, but it was not to be.
Anne started the day off early with a good dose of Castor oil. Then a second before the midwife showed up for another stretch and sweep (the fourth so far) and then a third.
While she suffered most of the obvious side effects of that wonderful stuff, she did not suffer the one we wanted: labour.
So she is now sleeping beside me still pregnant, and without suffering any major or regular contractions throughout the day.

So if she is still pregnant on Saturday, she will have been pregnant a month longer (four weeks anyway) with this child than she was with Maya. That's crazy.

The child should come soon though. Health-wise, everything is 100% ready to go and looking good. The kid is just chillin' in the uterus "Man, this is nicee, i LIKE it in here." I hope he doesn't dawdle like this when he gets older :)

BreastFeeding

I would really like to be actually breastfeeding next week to celebrate world breastfeeding week.

Flying

Yep...STILL pregnant

First

To bring on labour tonight I went to see Hairspray at the local multiplex....sat through the whole darn thing. But while there I got a drink and popcorn. I have never indulged myself so much in my entire life. Either I'm going to weigh 200lbs or we are going to go broke feeding me before this baby is born.

The Wait

So there is a lot of waiting going on 'round these parts.
We are still waiting for Anne to have the baby. Still no labour, still not dropped, still not nothing *sigh*
Also waiting for Kathie, Anne's sister who is visiting for the birth, to sudden go berserk from the boredom of waiting for Anne and do something crazy. How crazy? I don't know, but Kathie crazy would probably be something like flipping out and dying her hair blond or something like that. Truely frightening.
And then, as of this evening, will be waiting for my Xbox 360 to get repaired as it Red Ringed and off it goes.

But if anything, the baby should definitely peek its head out this week sometime for sure (of course I've been saying that to people for the past 3 weeks :)

Due Date

Well today is my due date..and still no baby, although not for lack of trying.
-Evening Primrose oil taken in a variety of ways.
-Homeopathic remedy given by the midwives.
-Maya has been allowed to nurse and play with her mommies as much as she wants.
- 10km walk.
- Bowling.
- As much sex as Luke will willingly participate in.

I have said that I would never do the caster oil route again but right now it is looking attractive. The wait is killing me. If anybody else has any suggestions speak up.

I am eager to have this babe. Luckily I am not to uncomfortable, just as long as I do not get up from my supine position. Any sort of bending just is no fun. Really what I'm eager for is my body.

Freak Out

Well Maya had her first major freak out. This morning the first thing she said was she didn't want to go to school anymore and she didn't like school. Thus, she dressed crying about going to school, ate breakfast crying about school, brushed her teeth crying about school, got her hair done crying about school, was dragged to school by both of us crying about school, and finally as we were walking out the door crying about school.

Only it wasn't just crying about school, it was kicking and screaming, and running away down the street.

From attachment parenting to letting your child cry it out with strangers. Ahhh want 40 weeks of pregnancy will make you do.

Birthday Boy

It is Luke's big 3- 0 this weekend, and I have nothing planned, no present purchased. I feel like such a terrible wife. I am actually focused on creating another birthday boy but perhaps if others wanted to make a fuss I'm sure he would appreciate it.

Still Pregnaet

Yep still growing a baby inside my uterus. It is getting bigger and bigger, thus my vagina will never be the same. After I had Maya I had a major emotional breakdown about the state of my vagina....but i'm sure that is too much information for most.
Anyways am trying to have the babe. Taking evening primrose oil, had some sex, went for a walk. Blah Blah I'm going to take the homeopathic the midwife can give me. I refuse to take caster oil.

My main goal in having the baby is to be able to lie on my stomach.

Maiden Name

Read the last three paragraphs- Ditto that.

First Day of School

I tried.....

I think I am reasonably well read. I try to read a differently range of authors, and subjects, fiction and non. My dirty secert is an addiction to British chick lit. American sucks but because it is British I can't get enough. I also try to make a special effort to read Canadian fiction. One of this years Canada reads was Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neil. I couldn't finish it... to depressing,and I think it was tainting my mind. I see enough dispair, hear too many sad stories to want more in my leisure time.....and actually I try not to get involved. If I do not really need to know why a patient is bizarre then I do not find out.

My baby is a little girl..

I'm surprisingly experiencing a lack of emotional about Maya entering the 'system'. Although with the Montessori school is slightly less institutionalized. Have I ever mentioned how I think the 'system' failed me.

I teared up slightly when we dropped her off and was eager to pick her up early in case she was in the depth of dispare... but otherwise I kinda am focused on other things right now. Did enjoy a trip to owen sound with nobody else offering their two cents about what we should be listening to on the radio. Maya only likes girl singers. And I got to linger at the health food store with out somebody begging for a treat. .... and I didn't have to answer endless questions all day but I know my freedom will be short lived.

Maya did great. We know she stamped dinosaurs on a pieace of paper, she played house with a girt named faith, what she had for lunch... and that's about it. She is quiet about what else she did. Whatever it is she is eager for more on Friday. She will be going three days a week.

Oh and in case anybody is interested she came home from kindergarten and nursed, now she can wean.

Giddy as a schoolgirl

So we sent Maya off to school this morning. She is going to J/K at the Montessori school down the street. For that last week she was been telling us how excited she is for school and can't wait to get etc, etc.
So last night we tell her she needs to have a bath so she will be clean for school in the morning. Then it started and in between great sobbing heaves she says, " I don't want go to school", "i won't like school", over and over. We managed to get her clean anyway and get to bed.
So after I read her a bedtime story and and sitting in bed with her so she will go to sleep, she finally says, " I think I do want to go to school daddy, I'm going to go and tell mommy". So she jumps out of bed and runs downstairs to tell Anne. Then she comes back upstairs and promptly falls asleep.

This morning she was quite excited and very cooperative the whole morning. We walked with her to the school, and Maya smiled the whole way. When we got there school she did as the teacher said, put her stuff where she was supposed to and then sat down to do an activity with the other kids. She didn't even look at us as we left. We were definitely more nervous then she was.

So our little girl has her first day of school. It feels a little strange.

Names

For ANOTHER baby related post....

Anybody got any boy names ....we are at a serious loss. We can not think of a name that is somewhat unique, has two syllables, is not boring, and we both agree on. If by some act of God the testicles seen on the u/s were actually very swollen female genitalia we are all set with a girl name but Lord we do need help with a boy name.

Naked

So if anybody wants to see my naked pregnancy shots, and the non naked ones for that matter let me know and I will send you a link. It is only good for one more week. I am pretty open so if you are interested in seeing my pregnancy breasts in all their glory this is your lucky day. Besides half of you would have seen me naked in change rooms, skinny dipping, me changing on the beach before.

Actually I'm kinda surprised at the amount of people who are not interested. Guess I'm not as hot as Luke makes me out to be.