So is it Nesting, or Trying to Induce Labor???

Last Tuesday night I had some pretty strong contractions into the night. I decided to go to work the following day because I didn’t want to just sit around at home waiting for labor to start. The next afternoon I had contractions as I was at work. I decided by the end of my work day to go on maternity leave a little bit early so I wouldn’t go into labor at school.

(I am not sure why I am bending my knees!)

Baby’s Room….
As the nature of the beast goes, I take time off work and all contractions seem to stop for that day. I made a list of things that needed to be done and started getting to work. I started in the baby’s room. I had put off getting it cleaned up and it was still a storage room for boxes I didn’t know what to do with. I started in the baby’s closet and cleared out all of Brinton’s clothes and moved them to the office closet after hanging a new rod.

Then I attacked the boxes and at least got them out of the main room and stored them stacked in the closet. Next was to go through all of the baby clothes and sort by size. I have done this a few times already, but now that I have more clothes I wanted to take inventory and see where we are at.

I filled the first two dresser drawers with all the newborn and 0-3mos clothes and stacked some 3-6 month clothes in the third drawer. The rest I sorted by size and put in a large tub in the closet and did the same with the hanging outfits.

I also worked on getting the “changing table” ready and a book shelf cleared off so I can use it for storage.

I laundered all of the cloth diapers I have collected and practiced folding the diapers on a doll. We are starting off with disposables, but I am also going to supplement with cloth diapers as time goes on. I have a few different kinds I am trying and I am sure I will share how that goes when the time comes.

Cleaning….
I have worked on getting the house a bit cleaner. This last month has been best month for me health wise, it has been a great. I still haven’t had enough time to get caught up cleaning around the house. So I steam mopped the tile floors dry mopped the wood floor and vacuumed the carpet. I got a little bit of other cleaning done too.

Exercise…..
For the longest time, even just a brief walk would give me contractions. So I spend many months not moving much. So the first thing I did Friday morning was hop on the elliptical and get moving. No results in getting things moving. I also went to the mall and walked the whole place and window shopped. No luck.

Gardening…

(More to soon Come about gardening)

Worked on weeding our two raised beds as well as planted seeds inside.

So I have tried to keep myself moving in hopes to get me contracting again and moving into labor. I have had several mild contractions, but nothing kicking me into labor. I have many things keeping me busy, which is great. But we sure do hope this baby comes soon.