Still here... 40 weeks and 2 days... meaning 2 days overdue. I went to the doctor today for a non-stress test to see if the baby is still doing OK in there, because sometimes when one is past their due date, conditions start to deteriorate and the baby stops thriving. In my case, both the little guy and I are doing great. So great that my doctor couldn't write me a note to stop working because she had no medical reason to do so. So PRAISE GOD for our health. However, if this test was for the mama's stress, I might have failed it after hearing I needed to return to work tomorrow. I am generally up from 3am-5am, which is not cool when you get up at 5 for work, and I've been having back pain from standing all day. But my blood pressure looks good and I feel pretty good, so back to work I go... until I have NST #2 on Thursday!
I do have an induction scheduled for Sunday evening/Monday morning, but I'm really praying he comes before that. Would you please pray for that? Merci :-)
I'm doing all I can to make him come out on his own. I am not really a fan of this whole "nesting" business. I am not a cleaner in general, so I wondered if I would ever have the urge... and the answer: not yet. I like to organize though... and cook... so I figure since I spent a good 6 or so weeks working like crazy at school organizing and planning to be gone for maternity leave, that may have been my way of nesting. I honestly don't care if my kitchen floors are clean. My husband is the one who does a lot of the cleaning, so perhaps that is why? I however, have been very concerned about making sure we have enough food and household products to last us for awhile... because you know, we live oh so far from the store?? (hah.)
Perhaps I nested today by cooking? I made chicken salad for lunches tomorrow, a casserole for dinner tonight and then I used the rest of the cake mix from my funfetti rice krispie treats to make these cookies:
(used yellow cake mix & added sprinkles to the batter... et voila, "funfetti").
Oh, and we got a new camera... I don't really know how to work it yet, but I still think the pics came out ok!
I made my own icing though, using the Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Buttercream frosting recipe. I cut it way down, using 1/4 cup butter, 1 1/2 cups or so of powdered sugar, 1/2 tsp of vanilla and about 4 Tbsp milk.
Here's what we are tentatively eating this week (hoping the little guy will show up!)
It's a fiesta at our house... lots of SPICY Mexican food to try to get this little man to come out!
Sunday: Tacos & Mexican Rice, chips & salsa
Monday: Green Chile Chicken Casserole, salad
Tuesday: leftover tacos
Wednesday: leftover casserole
Thursday: more leftovers or omelettes (mine will be with salsa to make it spicy)
Friday: Ravioli, Salad & Garlic bread
Saturday: frozen pizza
I was cooking a huge feast for T-giving and a few hours later D came... so you might be on to something with this cooking-as-nesting thing ;-) Thinking of you!
ReplyDeleteThose pictures (and cookies) are beautiful! Good luck Jen, I am praying for you! Bisous!
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