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Dear Baby, You are going to be here before we know it.  The boys are excited to meet you, and both of them think you will be a brother.  Your dad and I also think you are a boy.  Even though my pregnancy has been quite different than it was with Luke and Benjamin, I still think you are a boy in there!  My doctor wants to induce me a week early, on Tuesday, July 2nd.  I have something called Strep B, a bacteria that many pregnant women have.  It isn't harmful to me, but it can be harmful to YOU.  The way to ensure you don't get the bacteria passed to you during labor and delivery is to get an antibiotic into me -via an IV- at least four hours prior to you being delivered.  My labors/deliveries are fast, and with both Luke and Ben I didn't get the antibiotic in time.  Thankfully they were okay and did not contract Strep B.  Our doctor told us that 1 in 2000 babies who get Strep B will die, and another 10-15% can have severe neurological damage.  Your dad and I have wrestled

This 3rd little babe is due in just 4 weeks and 1 day.  Today is June 10th and the baby is due July 9th.  This entire pregnancy has been awesome, easy, enjoyable, and comfortable.  But for some reason, a few days ago, I became extremely uncomfortable.  It may have just been the day.  I think my belly doubled in size overnight.  I felt the baby's hard little butt and feet and shoulders jamming into my ribs all day.  My lower back ached.  I was exhausted. Since then I have felt a little better, but I don't think these last few weeks will go back to the easy bliss I felt the first 36 weeks. The boys are getting excited to meet their new little brother or sister.  Luke insists that he gets to sit next to the baby in the car and that Ben be the one to move to the very back.  Luke also insists that he gets to ride in the middle seat of the triple jogger that I bought (I found it at a garage sale for a steal!) so that he can take care of both the new baby and Benny.  I think I will