37 Weeks!

Well, here I am at home, 37 weeks and counting. So I've had a long two weeks but have felt great. Lighter on my feet, getting work done, conferences at 100% and parents happy about how things are going and completely supportive. Kids are great, only slightly frowning and correcting my poor decision making skills when I had a banana split at the Valentine's party. My favorite kid moment has been when I was taking them to lunch and as we stopped in the hallway to wash our hands before eating I sighed and commented "My goodness I'm starving!" to which my most innocent and compassinate little boy looked solomny at me and said, "Mrs. Bergin, you may be starving but there are children in Africa who are starving more." Yes, yes, sweetheart you are right. thank you for reminding me to have immense guilt at my selfishness. I haven't complained about starving again yet. Unless it was to Rob but that doesn't count. Rob is continuing to make dinner each night with delicious success minus only one meal selection and cleaning the house for me since I've been out late every night. Stacy attended our final Am I Mature Enough for This Class #5 and displayed the utmost calm and attentiveness to everything our teacher had to say that night. Sarah and Ed had Chinese food waiting for me as I rushed home from classes last week since Rob was out of town. It has certainly been a very busy last 2 weeks but things are great and I really think Rob and I will be ready to go after this weekend.

So I wasn't worried at all when I went in for our appointment a few hours ago. I didn't however anticipate exactly what happens when they "check you". So my doctor isn't here on Fridays and I had to meet with the nurse practitioner. I'm not sure what the practitioner qualifies as but I'm going to be asking my ER doctor friend. Anyway, now we all know that going for your check ups are not always the most enjoyable or relaxing of moments however seeing as how I've done them before I wasn't too worried. mostly worried about how Rob would handle it. Seeing as how I'm not sure who all is reading this I'm not going to go into details but let's just say she did not have a gentle hand in the matter. Rob was on the sidelines laughing hysterically as I made the most awful faces and started laughing myself, b/c apparently I laugh when I'm nervous, and I was nervous that I was going go be put into labor right at that moment! I mean seriously! How am I supposed to handle labor if today was already awkward and uncomfortable. I mean how fast to you have to check things? Can't we ease into it? She was more of a let's get this job done lady and I am more of a let's slowly and gently complete this job in the most organized manner possible lady. We didn't mesh well. I left feeling very unsettled at what had just taken place in that room. She also made many comments about my feet swelling which my doctor never does. He simply gives helpful advice. She went on and on. Well I'm sorry, I've been working 12 hour days and it took me an hour to shower and shave today so I haven't really had a chance to sit down!
So now I'm home and resting a bit before going back to work and looking forward to my appointment next week with my regular doctor with whom I will never cancel on again. in the three weeks i have left.
Oh, and it was all for nothing. Nothing is going on and I'm not even close so we are still on track for March 4th and no, we haven't picked a name yet!