Heard on the street

Well, we are still pregnant. I have to try to keep in mind that I am really only 3 days overdue. Not that much. Yesterday I had a really negative outlook and it was really driving me nuts. Today I'm feeling much better.

I get a LOT of email, facebook messages, phone calls, etc asking if I am still around. I really do not mind all of this - who would mind all of this fun attention?! I've decided to compile a list of some of the comments I've gotten:

"Is that baby ever going to come? You're like me - I had a lazy uterus" (said to me 2x actually, by the same person)

"What if you have the baby on "labor" day?!" (if I had a dollar for every time I heard that one...)

"You should have the baby on 90210 day and name it [insert 90210 character here]" (The hubs was so happy our baby was not born yesterday after he heard this. I on the other hand thought it would have been funny.)

"Knowing you, Baby S is in there absorbed in a good book" :)

"Have you dropped? It looks like you've dropped" (For the record, I think this "dropping business" is a line of sh**. My boss agrees.)

"You're still at work?!?!?" (actually my husband gets this (referring to the fact that I'm still working) more than I do)

"The longer the baby is in there, the better sleeper and eater it is" (fingers crossed that this one's true!)

And then there are the whole host of labor induction methods that people are always eager to dole out:

"Why don't you try...

...walking
...hip circles on an exercise ball
...eggplant parmesan
...spicy food
...having sex
...nipple stimulation
...jumping jacks
...castor oil
...having the hubs take me on a bumpy car ride

I have tried all of these (with the exception of the castor oil). Many of them, we have tried MULTIPLE times. So far...nothing. I'll keep trying though! While doing my hip circles last night I told my husband that at least my sacrum will be really nice and loose by the time labor does start!

This morning my husband tried a new method - he put his mouth by the belly and said, "YOU ARE BEING EVICTED. YOU HAVE TO GET OUT ASAP". Maybe that will work?! Or maybe our child will now have daddy issues for the rest of his/her life...

One of these days I will get to say "I HAD THE BABY!!". It will for sure be within the next week as my induction date is a week from today!