38 Weeks and Drinking Tea

So I have completed 37 weeks, as of Tuesday I am full term and ready to have this little guy.  I have an appointment today and will see if I have dilated any further or anything new is up.  A friend of mine gave me some tea to drink that is supposed to help your baby prepare.  I started drinking it according to directions of so much at a time so many times per what week you are on.  It is a little off tasting so I kind of have to make myself drink it, but it isn't bad.  Who knows if it will actually help but if it doesn't hurt than I'll take my chances on it helping.

Last night I brought out ever single piece of baby clothing we had been given or had bought (which we purposefully didn't buy much) and I went through everything.  I looked at, refolded, organized, and stowed everything.  Kris has been thinking we will have a big baby (since he was big) so we won't need any newborn size items at all, I am hoping we will need newborn size but it may not be long that we use them.  Either way we have enough to get through for sure thanks to so many good friends who have passed things on to us and the thoughtful gifts we have received.  The hardest part is the sizes of things as we go along, so much is variable I had a hard time organizing sizes, like things that say 3 months but look much bigger than the other 3 month things, hmm that might make it to more like 6 months...  I guess you just move along as things fit and don't.  I will just have to keep rotating everything.

On my list now is cleaning the cars and putting in the car seats and sun shades, packing for the hospital which seems somehow impossible since I don't feel like I know what to bring to ware as I don't know what size I will be or how hot it will be or how I will feel.  I was trying to pick out a baby coming home outfit too and felt like it should be special but realistically a simple Onsies seems best.  I also was hoping to make a couple more freezer meals to have on hand so Kris doesn't feel like he is totally having to take care of that and while parents may be around to help they aren't either, not every night anyway.  I also just went over everything on my desk here at work with my cohort so that she would not what was being abandoned suddenly when I don't show up one day.

I feel like there is so much to think about and prepare for while at the same time nothing I can really do either, nothing but wait.  This is the strangest feeling, waiting for some sign, some change, just waiting for any moment when everything will change.  As Americans I think we are usually so scheduled and know pretty much what our day to day will be and this now is just an unknown that will throw everything else off all of a sudden.  Since I am not leaving work until the baby is coming there is no okay I am done and just at home with nothing scheduled, I have meetings and tasks to do that I may or may not make, but it is all for a great reason and everyone is expecting it.

Okay off to a meeting and then my appointment - I'll update again after that with the latest.