Shokufeh is... home

More than 38 weeks down...

less than two to go... until my due date. It's strange - all along, I've assumed that Bean would enter the world sometime after the due date. Yet, every day I wonder if maybe this could be the day that we meet. I guess it's a signal that, as nervous as I am about motherhood and the pain of getting there, my excitement about my new role, and meeting this little one I've been carrying around, is greater.

I've gone through the past few days feeling a bit crampy - something akin to mild menstrual cramps. And Bean's activity has slowed down. Even, last night, after some major fruit consumption, something that usually results in the tarantella. So, I was sure that today's OB visit would indicate some progress on my cervix's part. But, still fully closed. After I commented that I'd been sure something would have changed, my OB did say that it might be thinning a bit. But it doesn't seem like something to write home about. (Yet, apparently, it seems like something to blog about.)

In other close-to-the-end-of-pregnancy news, next Friday's my last day at work until early February. Yay! Only eight more days of work! I'd thought about working until I go into labor, so that I can spend the maximum time possible with Bean (outside of the womb). But I recently decided that it would be easier, physically and mentally, to not work after my due date. If I go into labor early, so be it, but at least there's a goal in sight as far as wrapping up work responsibilities.