Somwhere between a mini watermelon and small pumpkin - Less Than ONE Week!

Your baby's waiting to greet the world! She continues to build a layer of fat to help control her body temperature after birth, but it's likely she already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds, a mini watermelon. The outer layers of his skin are sloughing off as new skin forms underneath.

How far along? 39 Weeks and 3 Days 

Total weight gain: No clue

Sleep: It's getting hard to fall asleep at night. It's like my brain and restless legs have no idea the rest of my body is dead tired!

Best moment this week: Spending time with our baby boy before he isn't the baby anymore

Movement: She's definitely slowing down

Cravings: Right now we're just craving to hold this sweet baby girl!

Name: We're 99.9% sure!!!

Labor Signs: Nothing painful, but randomly she will ball up and my belly will get very tight for a few seconds.

Dilated: "A good three"

Belly Button in or out? In but stretched to the max.

What I miss: We're too close to the prize to really miss anything at this point.

What I am looking forward to: 12/12!!

Next Appointment: NONE!

Okay, so when we last left off we were either going to be induced on 12/2 or 12/7 depending on my blood pressure at my last visit. Turns out my weight dropped and my BP was back to normal so we moved forward with the 12/7 induction. Early Monday morning I woke to an odd sound and realized Austin was throwing up in our bed. Poor kid hasn't thrown up since his bottle days. I said, "oh my gosh, Austin, are you puking?!" And he said "Mom, I need more silage wagons. What is puke?" I tried to get him to the bathroom but he had no idea why I wanted him to put his face in the toilet. He stayed at Nana's most of the day on Tuesday while I worked and Jay scrambled to get the car and house clean. Bags were packed and the house was shining by the time we went to bed. A few house later I was the one hanging out in the bathroom...over and over again. I called my doctor around 8 am and told her what was going on. As we expected, she said we shouldn't induce. She told me she'd call the hospital to reschedule the induction and I should call the office to make another appointment for Friday. So, as of right now, we are #7 to be induced on Monday, December 12. We'll be holding our baby girl 4 days (or less)!!! (Hopefully it's for real this time!)

Appointment update: Our last appointment went well. Everything looked good and I'm a dilated to "a good three." There's a chance we'll go on our own but more then likely...we'll be seeing Dr. Hugge on Monday morning!

Another view of her room:

All we need is a FINAL decision on her name so we can put something over her bed. The next two days will be busy as we redo all the stuff we did last week -- clean house, repack bags, etc. Only two more days until we meet our baby girl named.....






Ha, just kidding! We've come to close to spill the beans now! Stay tuned!