Are you ready?

"Are you ready" is a question I've been asked a lot in the last month, and I'm sure anyone else who is around 9 months pregnant is bombarded with this question as well.

Generally, people won't accept any answer other than yes. Even when I say no.

Pregnancy just hasn't been that bad for me and I'm not at that so tired of being pregnant point. Sure, it's a lot more difficult to do certain things (like put on my own socks) and there are some things I'd like to do that I can't even do at all, but it's not that bad. I just want Will to be as healthy as possible and if that means me being tired and achy, that's fine. Plus there have been a few things we still needed to get before he comes, though right now I think we're just down to getting a rocking chair.

However, since no one would accept my answer of "no, I'm fine," I've started saying "yes, I'm ready." They really seem to like it when you emphasize how ready you are, it just gets them all excited and who am I to deny them such joy?

For a few days I did go through a period of being very ready, all due to a doctor's appointment Thursday. At said doctor's appointment we found out that Will's weight is about 7lbs 8oz, I asked the nurse to repeat the numbers. 7lbs 8oz, this is with 3 weeks to go!

Let's just say I was a bit unnerved by this (because unnerved seems like a classy, more respectable word to use than "freaked out," "nervous," or "really, really scared"). I'm thinking, "how much bigger is he going to get?" and hoping he will come early. If anyone asked me "are you ready?" in the couple of days following this appointment, I wanted to shout an emphatic, "yes!" But I'm not a very emphatic person, so that did not happen. Add to this the fact that everyone with whom I shared the weight had to comment on what a big boy he is going to be.

Then I get a weekly update email from one the the pregnancy websites I'm subscribed to and it says that at this point the baby is probably gaining .5oz a week. So of course I calculate this and figure that if this weight gain were spot-on and he went exactly to the due date he would weigh 8lbs 3oz. That's not so bad. Then we go to the obstetrician yesterday and she says his weight is just at the top of the mid-range. That's not so bad, I guess. Then I talk to my mom to tell her how the appointment went and and she now thinks the weight isn't so bad, after-all, I weighed 8lbs 4.5oz at birth.

So now I've calmed down about it quite a bit and am no longer in that "okay, come any minute, please" state. The doctor did check my progress yesterday and said his head was down, at 0 station, I am not dilated and am 70% effaced. She said I could go in to labor tomorrow, but that 1st babies typically like to wait until their due dates or later. Later is fine with me.

(side-note: later tonight we should have the internet at our house! So instead of seeing other people's pictures with my posts, or no picture at all, like this post, you'll get to see more pictures that I actually took myself.)