I am 38 weeks this week- this is the week that both Jude and Gideon arrived. New little baby could come at any time now. It seems surreal, now that I am down to the final weeks, days, or even hours. It's now time for the waiting game, where I need to always be ready in case the baby decides to arrive, yet on the other hand I need to keep myself busy and distracted because it really could be a while yet. I have had no false alarms so far this pregnancy. I haven't had even one of what I could call a true contraction- only completely painless Braxton-Hicks. In this regard it feels like my first or second pregnancies, where I felt basically nothing until the day the baby arrived. I wonder why that is, on baby number seven. It's all right though; I'm definitely not complaining.
I'm praying this time for a (relatively) quick and easy labor, since, as I've mentioned before, I have always had those pretty standard 7-10 hour labors that were very intense the entire time. It's kind of just dawned on me what I will soon be facing and while I am thankfully not too freaked out, at the same time I am a bit nervous. Please, God, give me an easy time of it just this once! Whatever happens, though, I'll get through it like I have with the other babies. It's always worth it in the end, isn't it, no mater how the baby arrives?
