Two Days To Estimated Due Date

As I fell asleep Saturday night, I realized that, even after telling everyone that it's going to be awhile before Lily is born, I was starting to get gidgity myself.  With the realization that I just don't want to go back to work on Monday, I think that created a preliminary due date in my head.  But, I'm going to go to work this week, because it could be another couple of weeks before she arrives.  Let's not waste our paid time off watching BBC America reruns and sleeping on the couch.  While I feel great and have energy enough to work, I just don't want to deal with some of the elements of work that are really not my job.

I woke up Sunday morning to the smell of bacon.  It's a pregnant dream.  When I came downstairs, my mom was prepping a lasagna, blueberry muffins, and a bacon-cheese quiche for the oven.  We took a walk and then went to the super Whole Foods in Fair Lakes.  We were looking for a better desert selection.  We ended up with a muffin for my mom and a piece of cake for me.

In the afternoon, I went on a play date with Cortney and her friends Mary and Jen.  Mary and Cortney were playing Rummy-O outside while enjoying the day.  I went home, had lasagna for dinner with my mom, and then we watched Once Upon a Time and Revenge before heading up to bed.  It was a very relaxing day. 

I pulled out the breast pump that Salem passed down to me in an effort to try it out.  Using the breast pump is said to naturally stimulate labor.  I didn't know how long I was supposed to work with it.  I ask my midwife Monday morning, who said 15 minutes a day, or 15 minutes every hour, depending on how much you're really trying to start labor.  After that, I continued with my Hypnobabies CD's.  I have been rotating in the maintenance program between the Deepening, Fear Clearing, and Hypnotic Childbirth #1 and #2 tracks these past couple of weeks.  Last night, it was the Deepening track.