Let's Hope!

In an effort to get out of the house, get active and hopefully activate labor, Frank took me out Wednesday (2/10) to get some formal dining room furniture as a "push present" for having Acen. While it's not the most commonly thought of gift you may get your wife for having a baby, I really liked the idea! We need furniture for the room any ways and having a nice dining room set that you keep in the family for many, many years is a tradition in our family. After all, my mom has had the same beautiful furniture for 20+ years now! Any ways...while we spent the day looking for furniture, for me it was really just a nice "date day" with my husband, an opportunity to get out of the house and secretly...I was PUSHING IT---walking, walking, walking hard to try and activate labor.

Twice while in Kittles I had a good strong pain that resembled a contraction and that just motivated me to keep walking! Well...it's 5:00 a.m. the next day and I have been up since 2:00 a.m. having contractions!!

I have heard from countless moms at the school to get out and go to the mall and walk and I always blew them off stating that it'd be depressing to just walk around and not buy anything. But I have to tell you...while I'm not sure that I'm in active labor just yet, SOMETHING has changed and was activated with all of yesterday's activities. Since 2:45 a.m. I have been up with what I can only think are contractions (hey--it's my first time!) that are coming like clock-work, every 8 minutes apart, lasting about 35-45 seconds. This could be it!!

Interestingly, Acen's first due date was 2/11/10 but they moved it back to 2/9 because he was measuring big. It would surely be fantastic if he ends up coming later today on his original due date! We'll keep you posted :) :)