ready

Regardless of how prepared Andrea and I might feel, the baby is this week considered to be full-term (37 weeks). Andrea is of course ready to have this over with. The novelty wore off months ago when her waistline disappeared and her back started hurting. Add to that the loving abuse she gets in the form if kicks to her diaphragm, ribs, and other major organs, and yeah, she wants the little guy out. For whatever reason, though, she seems to think that he will probably hang out until his due date (the later one, of course) at least.

I was let in on a somewhat natural tradition in her family; both she and her brother were born on the full moon, or at least their mother did not go into labor until the full moon. Andrea was 3 weeks late. The very next day they were going to induce, but that night (the full moon) her mother went into labor. I don't know if her brother was very late either, but it sounds like the same thing. So she's already checked the calendar and that means either being born soon (July 11th) or late (August 9th). We shall see. Of course we'd like to see him sooner rather than later, but you know, whatever happens happens. Aug 9th isn't late enough that they would have induced by then. July 11 is early, but not so early that there should be anything to worry about. Like the doc said a couple weeks ago, "Take any opportunity you have to go into labor." Whatever that means. Like Andrea is going to chekc her planner and say, "Oh, I have a block of free time between the 7th and the 9th. I think I'll pencil the labor in there."