Eviction date: 01/20/2011

We went in for my weekly Ob appointment. I rescheduled my appointment from Thursday to today because we were getting antsy. Well it was a terrible visit to start with...well scratch that the visit wasn't terrible but it was terrible that we had to sit in the waiting room for over an hour before they called me back. They have never made us wait anywhere close to that long. Jacob was a nervous wreck to begin with and it only got worse to longer we waited.

I saw a doctor today that I hadn't seen before and I really liked her. She checked my cervix and said I was 4cm (nearly half way there) and 80% effaced. The baby's head is in the downward position. All my other stats were fine: weight the same, normal BP, trace protein in my urine. She commented that from feeling the baby's head that she was a "good sized" baby. I asked her to estimate Charlotte's weight, so she felt of my whole stomach and she said 8 to 8 1/2 pounds (+/- 20%). Because I'm so far along and the baby is pretty big they wanted to induce soon. If they wait too long then Charlotte could be too big for a vaginal birth.

They wanted to schedule me for an induction tomorrow morning but they already had 4 scheduled (and apparently that's alot). So they were going to schedule it for a 5pm induction tomorrow. But when they called the doctor that would be on call then he said he wouldn't do it that late because of the baby's size. He was afraid that if I ended up needing a c-section then it could be the middle of the night and apparently they don't like to do those that late. So they scheduled us for Thursday 6am with Dr. Soll.

They said they are going to try breaking my water first to see if it puts me into labor instead of starting the pitocin. They think since I'm dilated so much that all I really need is a few good contractions to jump start things. I've been having contractions but not timeable at all. I had a couple uncomfortable ones today too. But they just won't keep going. So if breaking my water doesn't start things then they will start the pitocin. She told me not to worry about the labor being worse when you are induced because it's just a myth that it hurts more when you are induced. She said the truth is labor is painful and terrible either way. haha I appreciated her honesty.

Well that's all I know for now. It's been a pretty emotional day for me and Jacob. I hope he can make it until Thursday. I've NEVER known Jacob to get anxious or stressed out about anything ever since I've known him but he sure is now. I think I would be stressing out right now but he's doing enough for the both of us:)

I really wanted the drama of "OMG I'm in labor and the baby's is coming". It seems kinda anti climatic like "oh btw we have an appointment to get this baby out". But the end result is the same. Plus the risk of complications go up the longer she stays in there so she really does need to come out soon. And really I guess she still has until 6am Thursday to make her debut...alot can happen in 37ish hours:)