5 Days and Counting...

Okay so it has been ages since my last post. We've been rather busy what with baby showers, other babies arriving, and just in general - life. Since the family came up in April we've had 3 more generous baby showers (the Church, my girls in Michigan, & the yogahOMe family) and the nursery is totally set-up and ready to go. We caved to temptation and ended up with a super comfortable rocker-recliner. I couldn't be more delighted with this purchase!

The dogs are experiencing a new reality too. A girlfriend gave me a baby noise CD to get them acclimated to baby sounds. It starts out really nice - sweet baby coos and laughs - until is climaxes in an all out temper tantrum rage. For the most part - they ignore it. The two of them are also spending more and more time outside. Zoe doesn't seem to mind so much as long as there is a patch of sun to lay in. Loki, however, believes it must be mealtime every time they get back in...this is highly annoying. For those of you who have seen her when she's getting fed - you understand what I mean.

And then getting to the real reason for the post...Baby Boy Sawyer is breech and has absolutely no desire to turn himself around and make a normal, typical entrance into the world (Will and I are not entirely surprised by this). So Monday morning, June 15th, we are having a c-section. Before finally agreeing to this, I put myself and the baby through the following (in no particular order):

1. Ice pack to his head while my hips were elevated over my head...apparently babies don't like they're heads to be cold and there is some belief that they will turn.
2. Chiropractic treatments.
3. Round ligament massage - and no this isn't a comforting relaxing massage...
4. Acupuncture - which I really thought was going to work. And if you are wondering, I did not have a body full of needles. I think the grand total was 9.
5. Walking, Walking Walking followed by a variation of child's pose.
6. Crawling on the floor for 15 minutes at a time - this was the dogs' favorite!
7. Inversions of any kind.
8. External Version - a medical procedure where the doctor and assistant literally try and force the baby to turn. It was at this point that I looked at Will and said, "Yeah, ok. Let's do the c-section." EV is NOT a fun thing to do.

Can you believe it!? In 5 days we will finally meet our baby boy that we've been waiting on for the last 9 months. And he will get a name at that time. For now, we're still keeping quiet.

Here are the newest pictures taken at 37 1/2 weeks of the baby. Getting to see the baby was the 1 benefit of the External Version. They think he's 8 lbs - which makes large babies officially a Sawyer gene trait. He also has hair:-) Here you'll see his sweet little baby foot and also his face - which I can only imagine is very very cute and not at all alien-like!