Still...Waiting for Lily Mae.....

I am getting the feeling that I will be forever pregnant! I remember being about 4 months pregnant and reading an article where a soon to be mom was about a week late and she was feeling that she was never going to have her baby. I remember thinking how silly that was. Now....3 days past my due date I feel the same way...am I ever going to have this baby!!!??? We Had another Doctors appointment yesterday and she said everything looks great...about a centimeter dilated and 90% effaced (thinning of the cervix). Basically, that means everything is ready....I am just waiting for that moment when labor begins. I have been having lots of Braxton Hicks (false labor) contractions. They are annoying and uncomfortable but not painful like the real thing. We go back to the Docs on Friday if Lily has yet to make her big debut! At this appointment they will check her heart more closely than they do at regular appointments. I will have an ultrasound checking her size, the amniotic fluid and all sorts of other good stuff just to make sure everything is OK. If all is good than we just wait some more. If anything were to be wrong they would either induce or I would have a c-section. But there is no reason to believe that would be the case.




We are all done with all the "foreseeable" preparations for baby...but we keep finding more work to occupy ourselves while we wait. Above are some pics of the Nursery!
Hopefully next time I write I will be saying She's Here!!!

Waiting.....

When I picked the title for this blog; Waiting for Lily Mae, approx 6 months ago....it meant something totally different than it does today. Now, I am really "waiting for Lily Mae"!!!! I am so excited for her to get here! I am becoming quite literally obsessed...I can't wait to meet her. She is not actually "due" until this upcoming Saturday, April 25th, but it feels like she should already be here. The last month is tough. People warned me but it's just one of those things you don't understand until you experience it yourself. Probably like labor- everyone tells me their experience and what happened to them but you don't have a clue until you've been through it. I am not really scared for labor. I know I probably should be but what good is being scared going to do??? I say that now.....but check in when I'm having contractions ...I'm sure I'll be a little more scared then!!!!
We had a death in the family this weekend- My grandmother (Dad's mom) passed away. That has been a little tough to deal with-- I wish she could have got to spend some time with Lily Mae but I know she is in a better place now. God is taking good care of her.
Alan is so ready to be a Daddy...I think he might be more "ready" than me(but shhh...let's not tell him that). It's so comforting knowing that Lily is going to have an amazing father--I have no doubts about that!
It's so hard to imagine what it is going to be like to be a mommy. It still feels so surreal sometimes. I think about how much I love her already and I can only imagine what that's going to be like once she's here. Well, until then....

Well, I will try to update as soon as Lily arrives--perhaps even from the hospital!
Thanks you for all of your love and support along the way.