This week was the start of my weekly appointments. While we were at the doctors today we got my Group B swab test done and are waiting for the results. Also found out that I am 3cm dilated and 70% effaced (thinned in cervix). I am just barely that dilated and my effacement still has some thickness to it; the doctor says I could be stuck at this far dilated for a few weeks or I could start furthering, its a waiting game but it doesn't surprise him that I am this dilated based on my history in pregnancy. We are at the point where he feels that the baby will be perfectly fine whenever he comes and is happy that we have made it to the end of 35 weeks and the start of 36 tomorrow, of course as always our goal is making it to our induction date. I feel like 37.5 to 38 weeks is probably when we will see this babys arrival, but who knows he may be a trickster!!
Earlier this week, I got the baby's memory book (baby book), a big brother gift, and a faculty gift for when we have the baby. I wanted to do something special last time for all those who were part of our special day becoming a family, but we ran into the surprise of Graison coming early and no time for me to plan it. After Graison was released, I saw this dum dum topiary and decided if we ever had a baby again, that I would create it for the nurses and staff that helped bring our baby safely into the world.
We have also received news that our orders have posted as finalized and Graison and Sheyden will be heading to Japan December 3rd. THERE IS NOTHING we can change about this. We thought that there could be something we could try to change still but found out that because they are finalized we can't. We were going to try to move Sheydens report date so we could go as a family or see what we could do about Graison going without me but our situation is a unique one. Everyone we have talked to while we were waiting to hear about the status of our orders told us that normally you do not see this happen *(meaning a separation such as ours)* and that you normally have 8 months at the least to prepare for a move. We only got a few months to prepare for this and because of my medical status our orders went to magcom status, which is a status above anyone on either of the bases we have been dealing with. We were warned of this possibility as a preparation for us hearing it in a "no matter what" kind of way and so we have just been preparing for anything. We have been told that it should take no longer than my six weeks postpartum recovery for me and the baby to get to Japan, that normally the only thing that would hold us back is an issue with passports or if one of us ended up in a critical medical state that the base in Japan could not help with.
Everyone we have contacted at Sheydens squadron in Japan, has been extremely helpful and have already set up a place for him and Graison to stay until we can contact the housing office, and also have been dealing with the daycare situation for Graison until I am able to get there. If daycare is not available, we have some good friends that moved over there earlier this year that are offering to help with him while Sheyden is working, and they have been around Graison enough to know him. They also have two boys that Graison will absolutely adore now that he can actually play with them.
RIGHT NOW it is TOO LATE to change anything or cancel orders as they are set in stone; the only way it could change is if Sheyden did something extremely stupid and got kicked out of the military and that is not something we need as a family. WE BOTH THINK AND AGREE that this is something that will be good for our family, ALTHOUGH the separation will suck horribly it is something we will have to endure and get past. There are some elements to this move that will make this separation a bit more difficult than just being a split family but we are trying our hardest to get past them as healthily and safely as we can and as a team. We just hope that everyone can understand that our situation is not a normal PCS situation but is a very unique one, and one that because of medical status and period of time getting to Japan being so short, is a situation that made things difficult in moving dates around and changing once they were already accepted. Any questions, ask Sheyden as he is the one dealing directly with it and I am hearing it secondhand; Plus I DO NOT NEED any excess stress ESPECIALLY being 3 cm dilated already!!
Thanks for understanding!
So for this week that is all that has been going on, here are some pictures to enjoy until next week! 
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