Induced!

We're getting induced today! Heading to the hospital this afternoon. Hopefully by the end of the day or tomorrow, we will have a baby!! Please be thinking of us. We'll update again when we get home!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of our followers. No baby so far today. Hoping for sometime today or this weekend though. Would be nice for Joe to have a week home with the baby before he has to go back to school! Wishing you and your families a wonderful Christmas day! Pray for our baby to come soon!

Due Date

It's December 22, and we have no baby. My appointment was typical today; weight (ugg), blood pressure (fine), heart beat (140 something), etc. Requested that she not check for dilation...what's the point? The baby will come when it comes, and why torture myself with that! My next appointment is scheduled for 8:30 am on December 30. Then she'll check, do a stress-test to check on the baby, and if we request, we could be induced. Let's hope and pray that baby comes before that point!

Day before

Day before due date and still no baby. He/she is destined to either be always right on time or totally late. God certainly does not give you patience, he gives you an opportunity to be patient in. This is my opportunity, and I'm pretty much failing. I'm so anxious, and every different little pain, twitch or movement, I'm thinking "it's time," and it's not. Oh well, I've got to look on the bright side of things. At this point, it can't possibly be any more than 2 weeks away, or maybe we'll even have the first baby of the new year and get lots of freebies! I'm ALWAYS up for free stuff!

Shopping

We enjoyed a nice little trip to Moline today. Walked around South Park Mall and picked up a few gifts for the baby. Now he/she has presents under the tree! It's 3 days until our due date, and we thoroughly believe that the baby is due to arrive anytime soon. I just know that my positive thinking will send me into labor! My parents are set to arrive December 23, that is if the baby doesn't come sooner. Hopefully we will be delivered and recooperated, and can be home by the 25th and can celebrate Christmas the right way, and not in a hospital!

TGIF

I never knew how slowly a week could go by until this week. I had hoped that the baby would give me a few days to get things organized, but five is plenty! I am well rested, that is for sure, and eager for labor to start. Scared, but eager. I am definitely going to ask for a little bit of something in my IV to take the edge off. Joe made it through his last week of school, Christmas party and all. He has 2 weeks off now to spend with me, and the baby that is supposed to be arriving any day. I told him to prepare plans for the first week back in January, just in case baby decides that he/she likes it a little too much in the womb. Hopefully it doesn't take that long, but my midwife said that she won't induce until we are about 2 weeks late, which puts us into the new year. I want my December 2009 baby, NOT a January 2010 baby. I started reading the first book of the "Twilight" series. Joe made fun of me when he saw me reading it, but so far it is quite good. I am ready for the weekend, and glad to have company at home. I'm considering a trip to the mall tomorrow to help things progress. Old Navy is having a sale!

Cabin Fever

Day 4 of being at home, and I am ready for the baby to come to keep me entertained! After scrubbing toilets, cleaning out closets, dusting, and everything else in between for 3 days, I am ready for baby's arrival. You can only organize so much, and then you're done...and I'm pretty much to that point! Last night I made Joe go to County Market with me so I could get out of the house and walk around. Thank you to Heather who visited me today and gave me more than a dog to talk to. I was told by my mother last night that I need to make cookies so that, "I have something to eat with my coffee when I come to visit." So, today I will make sugar cookies and those ever-so-fancy Ritz crackers with peanut butter dipped in chocolate (seriously, they taste gourmet and are SO easy!). Joe keeps expecting a call at school to meet me at the hospital. No such luck for him at this point! Oh well...I am still not at my due date, so who knows, it could still be 2 more weeks! PLEASE pray that is not...