Continuing the Countdown

Wow! A lot has happened this month; I'm not even sure where to begin....

A major highlight of the month for us was most definitely our baby shower. This baby is so ridiculously loved already!! It truly is amazing and we feel so incredibly fortunate. We got so much great stuff for baby J and it certainly helped ease some of our anxiety, as we now feel much more prepared thanks to all the wonderful gifts we received. I also got a big surprise this week at work when my amazing coworkers threw me a little surprise "shower". They all bought the baby their favorite childhood book and I am so excited for the memories that will be made reading these books with our baby. All we can say to everyone is THANK YOU, even though those two words do not even scratch the surface of the gratitude we feel.

On another note, we've been on a bit of a roller coaster these last couple weeks when it comes to this little one's arrival date. Due to a change of insurance at Peter's company we have been put in a unique situation. We found out about three weeks ago that Peter's company was changing insurance providers as of Oct 1st which complicated things a bit for us because it means if the baby were to arrive prior to Oct 1st we would deliver at one hospital and after the 1st we would be at a different hospital. Sort of a messy situation for a few reasons that I won't bore anyone with. The result of this was that after speaking with our doctor we thought it might be best to have the baby arrive prior to the 1st as the baby is pretty much ready to go, measuring big, and not to mention I've been having lots of contractions. Therefore we scheduled an induction for Sept 28th (6 days from now!!). However, after finding out more about our new insurance coverage and just discussing everything together in the last couple days we've come to the tentative conclusion that we'd rather not be induced unless it's medically necessary and would prefer to wait for this baby to come on his or her own choosing. I was definitely excited to be meeting this little one so soon and so it's taking some time for me to adjust to the fact that it probably won't be on the 28th now, but I feel good about our decision and know that no matter what it won't be too much longer.

Well that pretty much sums up life lately for us! Now it's just a waiting game...this baby could join us any day!