After all the excitement over the weekend about impending c-section, the doctors decided today that the baby looks healthy and that they are not in such a rush to get him out. I am still monitored daily, but it does not look like he’ll be out this week (unless he decides so on his own).

I am so excited and overwhelmed with emotion about the baby that I can’t read anything about mommies and babies without tearing up. The baby is very active and territorial. Whenever there is a monitor on my stomach he keeps kicking it and is sometimes quite successful in keeping it off for a couple of seconds.

The funniest thing we’ve seen at the hospital was this woman who was ineffectually attempting to soothe her baby in the hallway. The baby was in the hospital tray and the mom was tapping it gently. She was doing it so gently that I don’t think that baby actually felt anything (except, maybe, his blanket moving). It never occurred to me that tapping is a learned skill. We’ve so much to learn!