A memorable week?

This week is shaping up to be pretty exciting. As of this morning, I printed out my dissertation document on fancy paper, got my advisor to sign all the paperwork, and put everything in a box on my desk. Woo! Now I just need to have the graduate school accept it all and I will be done. That is scheduled for Thursday morning. Less than 48 hours!

Thursday is also my due date. Turing was a week late, so I'm not holding my breath about necessarily having #2 this week, but I'm kinda feeling the vibe like it might happen. I either feel like I'm gearing up for labor or ate something bad . . .

I am officially ready to have the baby as of yesterday. Previously at my non-stress tests, I was very good about knowing that he wasn't quite passing the test (too sleepy/lazy to get his heart rate up often enough or moving around so much that it was hard to track his heart rate) and I put a ton of effort into making it all work - holding the heart monitor the entire time or asking for juice (with ice) early. For Monday's test, baby wasn't very awake - he kept just missing the change in heart rate that he is supposed to get. And I really didn't care. I drank the juice and he perked right up and passed, but my attitude was "well, if they induce me, that's OK too."

Nothing like a huge drop in cortisol to get a baby, right? I'm trying to be good about just sitting still and relaxing a bit. Like blogging. Reading the biography of the name we're probably using for baby. Knitting. I have some work to do, but it is all icing at this point. Go me!