5 days and counting....

every night i swear i'm going into labor because soon after going to bed, i have lots of lower back achiness and nausea that keep me awake for hours. my braxton hicks have also become pretty powerful, and feel more like real contractions; starting low and increasingly becoming intense. but no baby by morning! just a lack of sleep :( my almost-2 hour prenatal appointment with my midwife today was great, and she assures me that my body is doing the slow and necessary work to thin, stretch, and efface the cervix in preparation for the "real" thing. it's funny that i feel like a first-time mom, since i've never experienced going into labor this way before. in the past it has been a broken bag of water and induction of some sort. it's both nice and entirely mentally challenging to do it this way!!!

39 weeks


i'm in love with benjamin in jeans


my silly 3-yr-old