Baby info, lucky you!

I’m sure most of you aren’t on the edge of your seats waiting for an update on our pregnancy. To you I summarize, “The bun’s in the oven, still cookin’, and everything’s ok.”

For the rest of you or to those who have to read the entire post once they've started, here’s a little more baby related info.

Betsy will be starting her ninth month of pregnancy next week. It’s amazing how quickly these things go by. She had her last biweekly appointment yesterday, and will go once per week for the rest of her labor. They checked her out and everything is going well. Her cervix is fifty percent effaced and 1 cm dilated. Effaced refers to the thinning the wall of the cervix, which is necessary for labor (though I’m sure most of you who care about this already know what it means). So far, her tests have been good for protein, sugar, and a whole host of other issues. Also, the baby is head down and very low. I don’t have much else to report medically as there really aren’t any problems, which we are grateful for.

In preparation for our new little bundle of joy, we have wrapped up most of the essential baby projects. We finished the baby room, which was our largest project. We’ve washed all of the clothes/linens and put them away, we put baby supplies on the shelves, and the room is decorated quite nicely (in my opinion). I’m sure we will run into situations where we have to run out and pick up one thing or another, but we’ve bought or received most of everything we figured we’d need. Also, we’ve worked through our finances and planned our time off. Kirsten, Betsy’s sister, is planning on coming to help after the birth, too, which is very generous and we appreciate it very much. I’ll be taking 2 weeks off and Betsy will be taking 6 weeks off.

Last, but not least, we’ve pick out 2/3 of his name (we don’t have a middle name yet). James Gravley. Middle name suggestions are welcome. We liked James for many reasons, but mostly because Betsy loves James Harriet stories. We’ll call him James or Jamesy as kid. If it’s a girl, we not sure what we’ll do for a name. I suppose we had better get on that, eh?