Still Waiting

OK, so it appears that yesterday's "prediction" is not going to be true - seems things have toned down a bit and we're playing the waiting game again.  Contractions continues apace throughout the night until about 4AM, after which they tailed off...so we carried out our Friday in a "business as usual" manner, for the most part.

Grandma brought with her a new stroller from the US that we ordered but couldn't get shipped to Taiwan, so we spent some of the morning "building  it up."

We also went for a stroll around the neighborhood to get Grandma used to the surroundings a bit, including a visit to the local fresh market to see some "sea creatures."  The fish was so fresh it was still flopping around!

Of course there was a lot of this going on today:

John is happy to have his Grandma here to play with him.

Since baby has not come yet, we will carry on as usual with our weekly OB appointment.  Like I said, due date (40 weeks) was yesterday, but there shouldn't really be any issues in terms of outside intervention to initiate the birth for at least one or maybe 2 more weeks (depends what we can convince the doctor of - so far we have had good success in staving off his desired interventions).

GJS

Baby update - no baby yet

The trip to pick up Barb's mom was a success and labor did not commence while I was on that errand.  The day (Thursday) is nearing a close now and it appears that it will not be "go time" before tomorrow comes.  We remain at home and are waiting for the onset of true labor.  It probably won't be too much longer now.  If I was into making predictions, I'd say that we are probably less than 24 hours out from birth.  Barb is having contractions every 1 - 2 hours and they are becoming stronger - mild to moderate "uncomfortableness."

Hopefully we don't have to do the 3AM mad dash to the hospital.  With John we went there at about mid-day and he was born later that same day, about 10PM.  With luck, it will play out about like that this time, too.

GJS

Week in (P)Review III

Better late than never, right?

Keeping cool

GJS

Week 37 update (the baby)

He's not come out yet...but we had the latest check-up yesterday and I wanted to share the results.  Everything is coming along fine, he probably weighs close to 7 lbs. now (at about 37 weeks), so we figure that if he stays in there for another month or so (John was born about a week past his due date) he will approach a birth weight equivalent to what John's was (9 lbs. 3 oz.).  While we are very happy that Barb is producing big, healthy babies, I was sort of hoping that maybe this one might be a little bit smaller (8 lbs.?) so that it might have a little bit easier time coming into the world. (John took some extra help to come out.)  Well, whatever happens, I'm certain it will work out fine!

While we were at the hospital, John took the chance to get his vitals measured.  Here's his "stats":

Top: 17.0 kg; bottom: 104.9 cm

Grandpa S. was able to quickly convert these metric totals to pounds and inches today when we told him about them on Skype (he is used to dealing with metric measurements at work), but for those who aren't as savvy, I'll save you the need to get out your calculator.  It's 37.5 lbs. and 41.3 inches (about 3 ft 5 inches).  No wonder John gets heavy so fast nowadays when I carry him!

GJS