Still Cooking

Not much is going on.  We're still just waiting.

I've had a LOT of movement and I think she's trying to find a way out.  We recently watched Jurasic Park on TV and they were talking about the velociraptors testing a different part of the electric fence every single time to try to find a weakness.  Well, that is my baby right now.  She is poking me EVERYWHERE!  I swear, she's methodically checking every single square centimeter of space in there looking for the way out at this point.

I've had minimal discomfort and no real contractions to speak of.  Of course, some still show up on the monitor on Mondays and Thursdays when they check me, but it's nothing I can really feel, and it's certainly not painful like a couple weeks ago.

The c-section date was moved to the 7th because the 8th was booked up already.  I'm not quite content with that, so I'm going to ask my doctor tomorrow if she will change it to the 11th.  That way I can give this baby 2 solid weeks of post-due date time to work out the bugs and come out on her own still.  Two weeks late is not really late, technically.

And the 11th would be exactly the day after 2 weeks, so I feel that is fair enough.

People keep asking, so I'll say it again.  No, we are not inducing.  I do not want another pitocin fiasco like I had with Abby.  She didn't respond well to that and they said my contractions were right on top of one another instead of spaced regularly.  It sounds like neither of us responded well to it, actually!

So, she can come naturally, or we will evict her.  But, pitocin will hopefully not be part of this equation.

I'm off work now and just spending time with family.  Marti's dad and his wife are in town from New York and it's been nice not having to worry about work while they are here.  Abby has really enjoyed swimming at their hotel with them, and we have one more day with them before they have to head home.  Looks like they will be back this summer since the baby has not arrived yet.