36 weeks

(I just updated the blog so be sure and check out the other 3 posts after this one)

I am 36 1/2 weeks!! Baby Connor is growing like a champ and making his mommy more uncomfortable these days. I now feel the need to sit down more often and be off my feet. Holding Ava is becoming more challenging and afterwards I usually feel aches. I had my first dr. appointment last week where they check to see if I am dialated any and I am already 2 cm dialated, 50% effaced, and Connor's head is very low. Things are on their way and that is so exciting to me! I do hope and pray however that he doesn't come too early. My dr. said that it is common with second pregnancies to already be dialated to a 2 at this point and that it is very likely that things will stay the way they are for awhile. Maybe it is just mental but ever since the dr. visit it seems like I have been feeling more pressure and experiencing more Braxton Hicks contractions. Mikey and I have decided, for many reasons, to induce this time around. Our induction date, although not officially in the books until this Thursday's dr. appt, is set for Saturday March 10th! My doctor usually doesn't work on Saturdays but since she will be out of town a few days leading up to my due date she said that she would come in so that she could be the one deliver Connor. She has seen me go through so much with this pregnancy and my last one where I miscarried that I would be so sad if she wasn't right there by my side to deliver Connor. She is one of the sweetest and most compassionate doctors I have come across. It just feels right to induce so that I can guarantee she will be there, I will have someone to watch Ava, and that the granparents will have some time to meet and spend time with their grandson before they have to leave town and go back to work. Of course he could come before the scheduled induction date but we are hoping not! Either way we are excited to meet our little guy! He will be here so soon!

Here are a few pictures of Ava and I for comparison sake.

16 weeks

36 weeks

We took the rest of the baby equipment out of the attic and as expected Ava has had fun testing them out and putting her babies or herself in them.

A lot has changed since the first time I put her in the baby carrier.....

and now..... (tear)

She is going to be the sweetest big sister. I love this little girl to pieces!!!!!!