Ready or Not, Don't Come Out!

This pregnancy has been a little more of a rollercoaster than my last one - you know, with a scorpion sting, the baby dropping at week 31, contractions so early, etc, etc, etc.  I've been saying "throw caution to the wind" as soon as week 36 starts, and the doctor gave me the "ok" sign for this weekend.  And now it's almost here and I'm having second thoughts.  Why?  Not because I'm not ready to meet the little gem that's in my belly, but I'm not ready for the little gem to come out and be exposed to the things floating around our air...

Over Labor Day weekend, Alli got sick.  Nothing big - she stayed in PJs all day on Saturday and watched TV - didn't want to do *anything* and didn't eat very much.  The next day she woke up with a croup cough.  Well, we know how to deal with that, so honey/lemon water for cough, Little Noses every night before bed, Vitamin C.  She was feeling much better by the end of the weekend.  The cough still lingers (yes, even still), but it's not bad.  But then I got it.  So by Tuesday, I had a congested head and a cough.  And that went on til about Friday and then by Friday, I really felt sick.  Saturday I slept the whole day (yes, the whole day).  I only got up once to force a peanut butter and jelly sandwich down my throat cause I figured I needed some kind of food, and then went back to bed.  I was pretty much in bed through Monday, so 3 full days of sleep and I wasn't getting better very fast.  But finally I've turned the corner, and while I'm still coughing and don't feel 100%, I'm much better.  But on Tuesday Gage (Marcie's youngest) came down with a super high fever.  He's been bed-ridden since.  And now Marcie has it - the cough, the fever, the congestion.  And she never gets sick.  They have 5 people in their house that this "disease" will go through.  Ugh.  And people at work are dropping like flies as well.  Some get the high fever symptom, and some don't.  Our family was lucky in that we didn't.

But do I really want this little baby to come out and experience this little epidemic that seems to be going around?  Hell no!  So here it is, my weekend to throw caution to the wind, and I'm probably going to do my best to let the baby sit in my belly a week or two longer, hoping this "disease" passes through the community and is basically gone before we welcome our newest family member.