Baby Time

Well little man decided not to come all weekend. So now it's time to get things moving! It's 1230 in the morning right now and I just got up, had a light snack, and am getting ready to get in the shower. They want us to arrive at the hospital at 0300 am to get things started. I'm a bit nervous b/c the nurse/MD didn't really tell us what to expect. I wonder if they will try giving me another dose of Cervidil before any other interventions IE pitocin would be initiated. We are so excited and anxious! It's pretty crazy to be able to say our baby will be born today 7/18/2011!! I will try to keep everyone posted! We are bringing our computers to the hospital to keep our minds busy if things are slow.

Update

Well I sit here just a bit disappointed. My NP calls me yesterday morning and says since my "Bishop" score was right on edge and they were short staffed this weekend, they would not be inducing me Saturday. However she wanted me to go into the hospital to get the gel on my cervix to help ripen things... So Friday morning at 10:00 we heading up to the hospital. The MD on call checked me and I still was a 2-3 dilated and 50% effaced. The gel stayed in for about 2 hours while the monitored baby. Once the two hours were up they sent us home. They didn't even re-check my cervix which I thought was odd, but maybe was also glad they didn't because I'm afraid if it didn't help thin it out or I hadn't made progress I would have been disappointed. So know we wait all weekend for baby boy to come on his own. They did set up for me to come in Monday morning @ 03:00 a.m to be induced if baby didn't come. That's the latest and greatest folks..

40 weeks

Headed to the docs office this morning after getting only 3 hours of sleep last night... :( I am dilated to a 3 and still 50% effaced. I started crying when I was in the office because I guess I'm so ready to be done... and I'm sleep deprived. She went ahead and stripped my membranes... which hurt SOOOO bad.. holy crap. She said it was a really good strip and I didn't see her gloves but Ang said they were bloody. SOO the plan is if I don't have this baby in the next two days I'm going in Saturday and to start getting induced. This was never my plan nor did I want to have to be induced but I'm to that point that I just want to be done. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that the stripping of membranes works and I go into labor on my own! Here is my 40 week pic!

bleh

Thought maybe today was the day. I couldn't go to bed last night until 0200 and then was awoken with cramps and low back ache around 0400. I've been up since... I'm exhausted but I can't nap b/c I wake up with cramps. They aren't horrible, just uncomfortable. I also haven't been able to eat ANYTHING today. I've felt nauseated and actually had to take my zofran this afternoon. ( oh and I have had the poops..tmi) I still don't feel good and wondering how am I going to get any sleep? Maybe this is early labor? Who knows... I have no idea what to expect. Ang has been up this whole time with me too bc she can't sleep and she hasn't eaten all day either but she says she thinks it's because of nerves. We have a doctors appt tomorrow morning at 0930 so maybe they will tell us it's go time! Wish us luck. I need to have this kid now or at least start feeling better. I need to post a picture too... tomorrow I will take a 40 week pic and try to post it!

39 weeks

We are beyond ready for this little monkey to arrive. Went to the doctor Thursday and am dilated to a 2 and 40% effaced. Whoo hoo... After my exam on Thursday I had braxton hicks ALL day... literally 11:30 am till I went to sleep. I told myself if they didn't stop by morning Iwould go in and get checked out, but I woke up and they were gone! Last night at work I starting having them again but this time I was getting what I think were some real contractions. They were low period like cramps and back ache that came and went. This lasted about two hours and wasn't regular though. I'm also having more shooting groin pains/vagina pains... hopefully this means he is making his way down. Tonight will be my last night at work, which I'm totally pumped about! Then it's just a wait game for baby! Doc said they would strip my membranes next Thursday if I still hadn't had him!

38w3d

Still here! Still no baby! Every twitch, twinge, ache, or pain makes me think... ok is it time?! My appt this past week showed that I was 1cm dilated and still pretty thick! I talk to baby boy every night and let him now that ANY time now that he wants to come out his moms will be ready for him. This coming week will be my last week of work. I work Mon, Fri, Sat and then I'm done!! Yesterday I didn't feel so hot and all day I had low back ache and low abd cramps... these continued into the night and all night last night. I couldn't sleep and felt pretty horrible. I thought... maybe just maybe this is the beginning of things... nope.. today no cramps and no back ache! I know I need to relax b.c baby will come when he is ready, it just sucks b.c I'm soooo done being pregnant!! Oh... and this is probably TMI but last week I'm 95% sure I lost my mucous plug!! It made me pretty excited.. I know this is no precursor to labor but we are moving in the right direction ppl!

A big congrats to 2 moms and a wild child as they welcomed their little ladybug into the world last week!!

37 Weeks

3 more weeks to go! I'm getting so anxious to meet this little guy it's ridiculous! I'm actually feeling a lot better than I was last week. Last week I was for sure thinking that maybe he would come early b/c of how I was feeling, but now I feel normal and great again. Haha. Went to the MD yesterday and everything looked good. My group beta strep was (-) ! She checked me and I'm still closed and soft. So now more waiting. I feel like I have nothing to do on my days off. Everything is ready for baby and we have kept the house so clean that there is just nothing to do. I'm totally fine with relaxing though! We have been floating around our pool quite often this last week, which has felt amazing. Baby is still moving and grooving inside me. The "shooting" pains in my " no no area" have increased, and man are they killer. The double me over every time. Nerve pain hurts! That's all I have for now!

PS- I have some virus on my computer I'm trying to get rid of, but for some reason I can't comment on any ones blogs. Sometimes it will let me comment on wordpress but never on blogger. So ladies I'm still reading along with you all!