After scrambling to get everything for the 2nd quarter completed (grades, progress reports and report card comments), I was ready to start my maternity leave. We were fortunate to have a four-day weekend including yesterday's Martin Luther King holiday and today's Teacher Work Day which allowed me to tele-work from home (always a bonus, YAY!). In an effort to take full advantage of my time today (and save my leave), I scheduled back-to-back appointments with my OB/Gyn and my Perinatal provider (for my gestational diabetes management).
Lo and behold - both appointments revealed that this li'l guy is doing great and is so comfy, it's all up to him. I am not in any need of being induced as I had to be with my first pregnancy due to high blood pressure...and so, we're now in a "holding pattern" until labor truly kicks in gear. He has been teasing me on/off since the beginning of the year with intermittent contractions and several practice runs but nothing close to the real thing. Given that I didn't progress this far with my first pregnancy and wasn't put through nearly as much "practice", I'm definitely feeling it and feeling so very READY.
But...is Jeremiah ready? One of the habits that my husband and I have started with this new year is reading Jesus Calling by Sarah Young - a daily devotional for the 365 days of the year. Each day has a devotional and several Bible verses that exemplify the day's message. And what book of the Bible has been more featured this month of January? If you said Jeremiah...you'd be right! I joked today that our devotionals have been speaking on the lesson of patience and looking to Him to guide us as He sees fit. And with our son being named Jeremiah for the verse Jeremiah 1:5, we've soon learned more about the book of Jeremiah in recent days and are learning about following the Lord's schedule and not our own. The focus - patience.
So...the "plan" is to wait and let our li'l guy come on his own when he's ready. To wait and be patient, no matter how hard. How is patience being tested in your lives?
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