due date?

watching january 28th come and go is kind of funny. inside of me is this fully grown, fully functioning infant (as of today, officially)......who just doesn't want to come out. well, it's really more my fault, if truth be known. earlier this week, i went to my last scheduled appointment w/ our obgyn, and he said that, because of my narrow pelvis, the little man is unlikely to ever actually make "the big dive" (as one of my doctors called it). my pelvis is small enough that the baby will never cause me to dilate, and even if induced, the baby probably wouldn't fit through the birth canal.

dr. urig said that i had 2 options: 1) i could be induced and potentially labor for up to 3 days and still have a 80-90% chance of needing a c-section or 2) i could opt for a c-section now. the answer seemed to be clear, and brent and i have decided that a c-section is the way to go.

SO, we now know little ziggy's official birthday--and birth time (isn't modern technology dumbfounding?). =) this tuesday, february 2nd, i'll head to the hospital for surgery at 11:30, and we'll finally get to meet our little boy. we can hardly wait. it's a little bit surreal but more overwhelmingly amazing. i just can't believe that God is going to allow us to have this child and love him and squeeze him and take him home with us. what an honor and what a joy.

i do want to say thanks so much for those of you who have prayed that i'd be able to sleep better. for the last maybe 5 nights, i've taken tylenol pm and slept quite well (even though i still get up around 3 sometimes 4 times a night, i'm able to go back to sleep very quickly). even though this is on my approved drug list, i've avoided taking it. at the end of my pregnancy though (with only 5 days left to go!), we've decided that rest is particularly important. i need the emotional and mental stamina during the day now AND i need to be rested for our little man's eminent arrival. i know it's going to be unavoidably exhausting, and so being rested before the fact seems to make the most sense.

thanks again to our precious family and dear friends for their calls, emails, texts, prayers, and kind words as we prepare to welcome our son into the world. we do love you!!