Let the count down speed up!

So in one week we'll be holding our baby boy!

My doctor appointment today, you know the one I was so sure I didn't need to pack my hospital bag for? Yeah, that one- the ultrasound showed that Greyson has a "growth restriction" that requires moving up my C-section to next Thursday. August 25th is Greyson's new birthday. I'll be 37 weeks that day. That is technically full-term. The doctors aren't worried that he'll struggle. They expect him to be fine and as long as he eats well, breathes well and can hold his own body temperature he'll be able go home when I do. That's what we are praying for: a strong healthy baby. He'll be little. We'll be impressed if he hits five pounds by next week. That means I don't need to bother taking the 0-3 mon outfits. I think the newborn ones will be quite big. My sister and mom were getting excited about the "need" to go buy some preemie stuff.

I'm a little thrown. I expected my c-section in 3 weeks. I thought I had more time to prepare. The doctor told me that I'm now on light bed rest. She told me that I'm done working. I told her that I sit at my desk and she smiled and looked at me and said "you are done working". So I can go in tomorrow to fill out paperwork and pass my work load on and then come home and call it done! At least I'm only facing one week of bed rest. Others I know have had to do it for a long time. I'm already annoyed and it's been 3 hours this evening of doing less. And now that I know the baby is coming in one week I feel MORE urgent to get things done and am not allowed. So I will choose to let go of the unfinished lists. I will sit and play with Emma more and will not lift anything.

Oh, but I'm packing my hospital bag tomorrow.

I have an appointment Friday and another on Monday. They will measure my amniotic fluid and will do non stress tests (which monitor baby's movements and heart rate) and if anything changes from what they saw today the doctor said she'll send me right across to the hospital and we'll do the c-section right then. She thought Jon would have enough time to get up there from Mansfield if that happens. However, our prayer is that everything will stay good so we can wait until Thursday. But she said to bring my hospital bag with me on Friday and Monday just in case.

I see God's plan in this. I have to because He was not surprised today. (Or shocked, which was how I felt.) He knew this was coming. I know that He knows more than the doctors and He knows Greyson intimately. So I am trying to choose to relax.

Thank you Lord for your infininte wisdom and knowledge.