Expiration Date

Yep, today is my official due date - September 23. The date we've been working towards since we found out about this little peanut way back in January. And still no baby, which I'm trying not to be too disappointed about. As Stacy pointed out in her comment on my last post, I'm not exactly known for being on-time (note of interest: I was actually born on my due date...which was probably the last time I was on-time!). And I've known all along that most 1st babies come late, so I'm not entirely surprised. I just thought all of the "activity" this weekend might have sped things up.

I did go to the Doctor this morning and wanted to give you all the update (I'm just warning you - don't get too excited). Since I am officially 40 weeks now, they hooked me up to a monitor to check the baby's heart rate & movements. The first 15 minutes she squirmed all over the place, even moving the monitors that were strapped across my belly at one point. But when the nurse came in to check on me, she realized she hadn't turned the printer on, so I had to go for another 20 minutes. Apparently she went to sleep during that time, so I had to drink some Sprite & get prodded a few times to try and wake her up - and was monitored for another 15-20 minutes. Thankfully my Doctor could see enough movements on the printout by that point, so the nurse finally unhooked me and I went on to the regular check-up.

She measured me & checked my cervix - still at a 1.5 :( I was really hoping all of these contractions would have moved something along, but no such luck. My measurements seemed a bit different which my Doctor attributed to her having dropped more, but she decided to check my fluids with an ultrasound just to be sure. Everything looked good and I go the okay to keep waiting.

At this point, I'm still scheduled for the induction to begin Sunday at 7:00pm. My Dr. told me I'm not allowed to eat anything after 11am that day...and that the goal will be for me to deliver sometime before midnight on Monday. Seriously?! Even if that is the goal, I think she could have just left it at "sometime Monday" and we both would have been fine. Geesh.

Anyway, this is getting long. Sorry for so many details when there really weren't any updates! Thanks for all of your words of encouragement lately - they mean so very much to me. Who knew that blogging would be such a blessing for me? We feel your prayers and ask that you would continue to pray these next days as we wait. I'm still praying that I will go into labor naturally. Either way, Baby J will be joining us very soon!