Only a Little Progress

I'm now 80% effaced. Wahoo. Trying hard not to be too discouraged...but it's getting difficult. Maternal Fetal told me I was a model patient and granted me permission to eat when I'm hungry...as long as I keep testing. I guess they figure since my numbers are always well below the limit and I do what I'm told (I try!). I get a chance to eat more. :) A very good thing...Thanksgiving dinner could have been very sad indeed. Cross your fingers baby comes before then anyway...not looking forward to next week's OB appointment...they want to strip my membranes...which sounds worse than it probably is...but I'd still like to avoid it! They're also against inducing me on my due date just for the heck of it...which means I could go a week over and they still wouldn't be concerned with inducement unless he's getting too big. Which explains their eagerness to strip my membranes...I have to stop saying/writing that...it sounds scary!

Still Waiting...

I was completely convinced Christopher would come yesterday. Well, I hoped he would. :) Friday night I went to water aerobics and worked HARD...I'd been told by multiple women in that class that they had done just that and had their babies the next day. No such luck. I'm still a hippo with a hiccuping baby. (Although I'll still be a hippo with a hiccuping baby until the hippo-ness goes away...) No contractions at all yesterday. (Which is good because we went to Heber for the afternoon to see Steve's Aunt Becca.) I spent most of this morning hoping the contractions I woke up to would lead somewhere...and I'm still hoping that. Very silly of me...they come and go every few hours... Maybe tomorrow we'll find that I've actually made some progress. Last week I was still 1 cm dilated and just over 75% effaced. Which is where I've been for at least 3 weeks. I was hoping not to make it to tomorrow's appointments...I'll be spending the morning in Maternal Fetal being told I'm doing a great job and at the OB being told I'm close to the end...both statements are getting old. Can you tell I'm ready/annoyed at having to wait? I suppose I don't really have a right to be annoyed...he's made it past "full term" and for that I should be grateful. Way to go, Christopher!

Officially Okay

It's officially okay for baby to come. :) Steve took the Biochem GRE yesterday morning...so now he's "available". Baby seemed to have taken that to heart...or at least my belly did. Just before noon (when Steve was finishing/coming home) a series of lovely contractions began...and they lasted for several hours. Not all were painful...and they obviously didn't lead to real labor. So, here I sit having enjoyed the last few hours of contraction-free Sunday. I have another appointment tomorrow. Last Wednesday the doctor decided he wanted to see me within 5 days...he wasn't sure I'd make it the whole week. Pretty sure I'll make it until tomorrow morning. Although, I had a nice long nap and wouldn't mind having a baby tonight. :)
Katelyn's taking a nap on our couch because she has a sinus infection and can't seem to get any sleep in the dorms...hmm...something to do with being the RS President and extremely social otherwise. :) It's nice to have siblings in Provo!!! I just hope she isn't too contagious...she's been here a LOT in the last three days.