I'm Still Here!

Well, I've made it to 40 weeks and 3 days! I got to see The Dark Knight (thank you, baby!) and now John and Schmemle are patiently awaiting the babe's arrival. (read: staring at me like a ticking bomb) I'm also finding the stigma of "cranky pregnant woman" to be quite useful, as John seems to receive the majority of phone calls to find out if I've popped yet. This definitely cuts down on interruptions for me while performing so many of my important daily tasks..like napping. Honestly, it's nice to know so many people are thinking about us and hoping the baby comes soon. This kid is going to be loved!

The real reason I'm updating is that I actually have news to update with: I had a doctor's appointment today and I'm making some progress. (p.s. If you're timid of words like "dilation" and "effacement", I'd save some time and skip to the next paragraph.) I went in last Thursday for my 40 week appointment at 1 cm dilated and feeling some intermittent contractions. My doctor wanted to see how I progressed over the weekend and today I was 2 cm dilated and 60% effaced. They also had me do a non stress test and it looks like I'm contracting pretty regularly, it's just not painful...yet. Although, I did find out that I have a bruise on my uterus from baby keeping it's feet lodged under my ribs for so long. This basically translates to just feeling pain in my left ribs when I'm having these "painless" contractions (joy!) and I've been assured that the only way it's going to go away is to get that baby out. No pressure!

Anyway, from all that and the fact that I'm still able to sleep at night, my doctor and I decided to do one last biophysical ultrasound tomorrow to make sure baby's doing alright in there and we tentatively scheduled my next appointment for Monday the 28th to talk induction. Needless to say, I'm not going to be my chipper self if I actually show up at that appointment. John's mom is going to be even less pleased since she took two weeks of vacation around the baby's due date and my next appointment is the day she returns to work. This kid has apparently not yet been schooled in the art of sucking up to grandma. No candy and fruit roll-ups for you, baby!

So, there you go: I have no idea when this kid is going to make an appearance and I'm not going crazy--at least more than usual--yet. I attribute the fact that I'm taking this all in stride to excessive napping and a husband who really does jump at my smallest request, lest the lack of ice cream in my system should result in the baby's further delayed presence.

Rest assured that we'll keep you all updated on when the babe is coming (Code word: Spumoni!) and this is one of the first places we'll update with photos. Hopefully my next update will be something along the lines of "hey, we've got this baby...now what do we do?" instead of a desperate plea from John to save him from his crazy hormonal wife. Until then!