39 Weeks and Beyond

Here we are, 40 weeks and 1 day pregnant, which puts us past our due date.  Thank you ALL for your prayers (we need them!) and well wishes, we've been getting lots of texts and messages asking if the baby has come, and seeing how we are doing. And how are we doing? Great!! Physically, I still feel great.  Emotionally and mentally, we still feel great.  

I haven't ever really viewed the due date as anything else except for us being one day closer to meeting bebe.  I'm REALLY grateful for care providers who have yet to mention anything about induction or communicate any kind of alarm as we approached the due date.  Our birth class reminded us almost weekly that the average duration of gestation is 41 weeks and 1 day (and that's for all births, not just first time births).  Until my or the baby's health is in question, I'm just going to keep walking, pelvic rocking, etc., and let him take the time he needs.  I've also been grateful for the extra time to pray over this labor and find real peace in the fact that ultimately God, not me or bebe, are in control of his coming and health.  I may have needed this extra time for growth as much as the baby has.

Last weekend we went out with a friend for a short photo shoot at 39 weeks.  We hadn't planned on maternity pictures (because how often are they not awkward?) but I really just wanted to have a few pictures of Michael with the bump.  I have loved watching him love our son inside of me.  Back when bebe was moving a lot more (when he had more room) I would wake up in the morning and Michael would be holding my stomach feeling his baby boy kick.  It's like they were hanging out without me, and it was one of the sweetest things I've ever experienced. 

Thanks Rachellllllllll. :)

This past weekend we went out for valentine's day.  We went to dinner around 5pm and most of the other couples in the restaurant had babies with them, haha.  I love seeing couples that don't stop their lives because of the addition of a little one!

Too handsome.

Much Love, K&M