Baby central...

Well, now we're officially all ready for this baby! Little brother is going to stay in our room for the first few months---I kept Jack in till he was mostly sleeping a good chunk of the night so I wasn't running back and forth across the hall. This time around we have all the little baby stuff in here since Jack is still in the nursery. We'll start working on his "big boy room" after the first of the year, once he's closer to being out of a crib.

I'm 35 weeks, so we are getting close. I was okay'ed to stop resting if I had contractions and pretty much to do whatever on Thursday. So Thursday night we went to Ikea.

All that walking must have done something cause yesterday I had a little false labor episode, or something like that. I was feeling really weird and spacey all day and took a nap and woke up feeling worse. Then I started having nausea and shaking, which is how my last labor started actively. I started timing contractions and they were like 3 minutes apart, about 1 minute long and then the sweating and feeling super hot hit me--a clear sign that my body was working hard.

Tyler found me hunched on the floor in the bathroom and thought it looked rather familiar. He wanted me to call the midwife but my contractions didn't hurt at all so I was pretty sure this wasn't the real deal. He called my mom instead and by the time she got here, things were winding down.

It was really weird. For about 20 minutes, we thought we were going to be having a baby. Guess my body just wanted a little trial run. We'll see if that means he's coming sooner rather than later or not. But we are all ready now!

I'd appreciate prayers--I've already been tempted to feel anxious about labor and after this "episode" I am really struggling to not fear what lies ahead. Those 20 minutes reminded me of what it was like and that was even without pain. Now, I really am dying to hold my baby, but am really not looking forward to what comes before that---I don't like the pain. Just be praying for peace as I look toward labor and that I will trust and lean on God through the process. I know it will be worth every second of pain in the end!