To keep the crying at bay

Here are my daily mantras these days:

1) Patience is not only a virtue but a cornerstone of parenthood. This is just practice for what we are going to have to do anyway after they come out.

2) I am blessed with a healthy, happy pregnancy. Many women can not say that. I am fortunate to be in the situation of waiting for my healthy baby.

3) I am just taking my rightful NORMAL place on the NORMAL bell curve for the average gestational period. Some of us need to be on the other side of 40 weeks to have made it the average.

4) Babies born on time or later do really well and labor tends to go well.

5) This is the way my body needs to do its job. Trust the process and it will treat you well.