Due Date

Today is Page’s due date and I am just wondering how many babies actually arrive on that predicted day.  Page continues to have boundless energy and has no significant signals that labor will start anytime soon.  We are all learning patience here. Page, her partner Chandy, and close friend, Shelley, from Nosara, and myself are all here playing the waiting game.  Then there are the other three women who are expecting girls who are waiting at another location fondly called the “farm.”  The owners of the farm, where Page decided not to stay and deliver her baby, commented that of all the births that have occurred there over the past thirty years, not one boy has ever been born there.  So it is interesting that Page was not able to picture having her son there and left.  She is pregnant with the only boy of her group of pregnant women.

We are learning to appreciate the gift of time.  It is interesting how we either have too much time or too little time.  When Page first got the news that she was pregnant, nine months seemed like such a long time in the future.  But actually the last few days of her pregnancy has been a more difficult waiting period.  Since we live high in the hills overlooking San Jose and the smaller town of Escazu, we are challenged by finding things to do.  While it is beautiful here it is easy to feel trapped.  There is either walking up steep hills or down them.

Mornings are warm and stunning with sunshine lighting up the green hills and mountains surrounding us.  Then, by afternoon, the cool rain returns for several hours and it is time to put on sweatshirts and find things to do indoors.  I have turned my focus to cooking.  I have baked some great desserts and dinners which have been appreciated by the all of us who are in a holding pattern.   Most of the programs on the television are in Spanish and not many of the English programs are interesting.   We should all be grateful for the time to read or make conversation knowing how much energy and time a baby takes. But we are just so excited to meet this little person that it is difficult to appreciate this “down” time.   We will keep you posted.  Until then, we are either walking up the hills, or down them, dodging the rain drops when they catch us somewhere in between.