Blathering On

Elizabeth had an appointment Wednesday — absolutely no progress. 
If nothing happens by this weekend, we will likely induce on Monday.  That’s one week after the due date.

About last week at this time we had a change of heart about banking the cord blood. This is a somewhat controversial method of saving the cord blood to harvest stem cells in hopes that it may be used in future treatment of a disease . The stem cells can also be used to treat the mother, a [...]

It’s one day after our due date and all’s well.
We feel blessed for this extra time, really. We’ve now gotten to all the low priority things (painting touch ups, polishing the silver) and feel doubly prepared. Elizabeth is still going to the gym for low impact light cardio, taking long walks with Duncan and running [...]

Supposedly, only about 5% of all babies are born on their due date.   I couldn’t get a stat for “on or before” the due date but one number I saw was about 38%, so we’re still doin’ fine.  Also, I would bet that first babies tend to be born later.  Of our two concurrently pregnant [...]

We did a little final tidying today and took some pictures of Luke’s nursery.  Yes, we understand that it will never be this neat again.  Of course, this is missing the coolest accessory of all, which we’ll have for later photos.
In general, we tried to save some money on everything there.  The armoire we already [...]