Well I am officially 39 weeks today! On Monday I went to my doctors appointment. I had my membranes stripped. I thought it was going to be really painful but it wasn't bad at all. I saw a different doctor because mine had the day off. She told me that I was dilated to a 4 and my cervix was really thin. She was the doctor on call for the hospital that night and after she checked me she said "I think I'll be seeing you in labor and delivery today or tomorrow." Sometimes I really really hate when Doctors say things like this because the truth is, it got my hopes up. I mean, this is what she does, she knows what a woman about to have a baby looks and feels like. So I thought I must be about to have my baby. Well that was Monday, today is Friday, still no baby. It's been a pretty long week.
Luckily though I haven't just sat around doing nothing this week. I finally made the bedding for my little man. It's been quite a project. I'm not a great seamstress. In fact, I don't even know how to read a pattern. But I found some great tutorials for a bed skirt on Pinterest which I followed and the bumper I kind of made up as I went. They both turned out so cute!
I did the skirt first and it only took me a few hours. The hardest part was cutting the pieces to size, I don't really have good working space for that. Once I had the pieces cut and ironed the sewing went fast. Here is a picture of it finished. I am really quite proud. It even has a pleat in it!
I had a hard time finding fabric that I wanted for the bumper. But I went to the local Sew and Save a few times this week and on Wednesday they had some new fabric in and I loved how it looked with the orange and white chevron I used for the skirt.
Logan liked the polk-a-dots best so I used that for the outside of the bumper and the strips for the inside. I bought a used bumper at the DI for $3. Washed it and then took it apart. I really only wanted to use the batting inside of it. That stuff can get pricey. The crib bumper batting for sale at JoAnn's was $30...I much preferred my $3 batting that took a little work to get out. Once I had that out I measured it's height and length and cut my panels for the bumper accordingly, adding an inch on each side to allow for 1/2 in seams. Once I did that I basically sewed all of the panels together to make one big panel. The hardest part for me was the ties. I didn't want to use ties because I think they look too girly. So i decided to try using big strips with Velcro instead. But you have to be more precise with Velcro because you don't have the flexibility of just tying it tighter if the crib bars are smaller or bigger. I had to basically custom make each strip for my crib. It took a lot of trial and error but I eventually got the Velcro attachments to work. I had to sew the whole thing together and then put it in the crib and pin the, for lack of a better term, ties onto it to make sure they would work. I figured I would just sew them on last. Once I got them all done and went to sew them on it was too thick and I couldn't get them through the sewing machine. So I actually ended up unpicking one side of the bumper and sewing them on and then sewing the whole thing back up again. It was a lot of work, a lot of trial and error and it took me 2 long days. But It is finished now and I love it!
Next I think I'm going to make a window treatment for his window. I found a DIY tutorial on Pinterest once again for this. I think I'm going to do a cornice. Here is the picture of the one I found online.
I'll use different fabric, but I just love the clean finished look of it. We'll see if I have the energy to get this done this weekend.
I'll put up more pictures of his whole nursery once it's all done. Hopefully he comes soon...I am so huge and uncomfortable. It's amazing that out bodies can go through all of this and grow a human being inside. Wow!
p.s. my feet are so swollen, it's crazy. I mean seriously, did I ever even have any ankles? I'm starting to wonder if I did. But Logan has been a sweetheart and rubs them every night before bed with smelly lotion that he hates. I know it's been hard for him to listen to me complain about how sick I am and how uncomfortable I am, but he really has been great. He's so excited for our little Nixon to come. Almost as excited as me :)
