The 40th Week is FINALLY Here!!

Hey everyone! I can't believe it...the end of my pregnancy has finally arrived! I feel like I have been pregnant FOREVER! Since my last blog I have finished my visits to the doctor and set a date for Theresa to be born! I have also taken my maternity pictures! My third and fourth doctor's appointment's were the same...I was still 1 cm dilated and my cervix had made no progress annnnd I didn't gain any weight! I was still 183 lbs! My last appointment, on September 3, I was still 1 cm dilated but my cervix had softened and was lower and Theresa was lower too!...oh and I gained 4 more pounds! lol So now I am 187 lbs which brings my total weight gain to 42 lbs!! At my second to last appointment I asked him if we should start talking about inducing and he said sure but it couldn't be before her due date, which I hadn't planned on doing anyways. I asked if we could induce on Sept 9 because I wanted her birthday to be 9/9/09! but he doesn't work on Wednesdays so that was out. He said what about Sept 12? I said no way because I don't want to risk her being born on September 11 and because my cousin Krystle will be leaving for Europe for 3 1/2 months on Sept 12 and she is going to be in the delivery room! So we decided on September 8, which is her due date! So it worked out pretty well! So this all means that I have 1 more day of being pregnant! It's insane!

For everyone who doesn't know what inducing is or how they do it, I will explain! Tomorrow, September 7, I will go to Touro hospital around 9 pm and they will get me hooked up to the monitors and get me situated. Around 10 they will insert a quarter of a pill called Cervadil into my cervix to help soften it some more to get it ready for delivery. Around 2 am they will put another quarter in. At 6 am they will break my water and start the Pitocin which will start my contractions! And then sometime on Tuesday we will be holding our little girl in our arms! I am so anxious I can't stand it! Tomorrow Gabe and I are going to spend the day relaxing and enjoying our last day where it's just the two of us!

ANNNNDD....I finally took my maternity pictures!!! My sister Stacey does photography and took them for me...she did such an amazing job!! I was 36 weeks in the pictures! Here's some of them and there's some more on Stacey's website www.staceybreaux.com/katematernity.html

And here are my 38 and 39 week belly pics! I will take my last one when I go to the hospital tomorrow night!

Alright everyone...the next blog you read will be filled with pictures of Theresa and all of my labor and delivery details!!! Goodbye pregnancy....HELLLLLOOO motherhood!!! :)