What a day…
My entire city (except a tiny little spot right around our house) is in a black out. Including my doctor’s office. I got to take a flash light to pee for my urine test and then didn’t have to have my internal exam since he couldn’t exactly do it in the pitch black. Fastest doctor’s appointment EVER! 
Good news though – I’m scheduled for 7:30am tomorrow. He wants me to do a 30 min. NST before he gets there and then he’ll insert the gel. If by lunch time I’m not in labour, he’ll do it again and wait until 6pm. He may try one more time, and if that doesn’t do it I have to have a cesarean. I’m thinking good thoughts though. And honestly, if having a cesarean is what it takes to get my baby out safe and healthy…then I’m totally fine with it.
Well, I need to go rest up for my big day. I’ll update ya’ll as soon as I’m home with the baby! 
My doctor just phoned me (after hours…what a sweetie). He said he just got the full report back on my u/s we did last week. Even though everything looks really good, there seems to be a decrease in blood flow to baby. So he spoke with an OB and they decided I should have the baby this week.
He made sure to stress that everything is OKAY and we don’t have to rush.
So tomorrow the clinic is closed for the holiday, but he wants me to come in Wednesday morning for an internal exam to see how things are….and then says to plan on being induced Thursday morning! That of course depends on if the hospital will okay me coming in (considering we only have 2 L&D rooms).
He asked how I felt about it and I said “I LOVE YOU.” hahahaha
I’m so stinkin’ excited!! I’m glad I have a couple days to make sure everything is organized around the house. Good timing… I hired my mom’s cleaning lady to come clean tomorrow – so my house will be all sparkly when we bring the baby home! 
Ok…. I know I’m a bad bad girl.
I took the Castor Oil last night. Not only that… but DH convinced me to do 4oz (internet says 2-4oz). Let me tell you about it:
9:00pm: It is horrible to drink. DH put it with OJ and blended it for me which made it better….but it still really sucked. I sat in the bathroom with the glass of YUCK and had to force myself to drink it. I probably looked so stupid….my neck hurts from (not even kidding) trying to get away from myself because I didn’t want it.
10:30pm I felt fine. For about 2 hours. And then had the urge to pass gas while on the couch. I nearly did until I remember my nasty drink…. so I went to the bathroom and thank goodness I did. It wasn’t bad…. I felt good after that.
4:00am Fast forward…I wake up with massive umm….bathroom problems we’ll say. Long story short….I used 1/2 a tub of baby wipes and a whole lot of diaper rash cream…on myself.
The only good things to come of this is that I did get some good contractions, the baby finally dropped and is centered and ready for his birth day (whenever that is!), and I probably have the cleanest colon ever. 
Yeah…that the last time I listen to my family & friends and their advice on how to induce labour!!!
Don’t worry… I did not get dehydrated. I chugged water all night long with that in mind.
But now I have to go eat something really cheesey…. you know what they say about cheese. I hope they are right…. LOL!
My ultrasound went well…doc says baby looks “perfect” and is 7lbs 6oz right now.
….and then he put me on “strict” bed rest. No physical activity whatsoever. He said I can be on the couch or in bed…or bathroom obviously. And I go back next Thursday.
oh. my. god.
I just want to cry…
well almost. 36 weeks and 6 days.
Ended up with an emergency appointment today….severe swelling. BP was 155/110
I am on a STRICT bed rest for the night…”do NOTHING” is what he said. Tomorrow I go back to get my BP checked and to have a Growth Scan done…. then he says “We’ll go from there…”
Which leads me to believe I may be having this baby sooner than I thought. Which suits me just fine.
So…I guess you’ll have to wait ’till next time. 
12:51am
Ouch… been having contractions all night (actually, since about 1pm today). Starts off as tightening in my uterus, then pain in my back and hips (similar to menstrual cramping). I am using a timer and they are about 5 min. long and about 8-10 min. apart right now.
Poor DH was worried, but went to work anyways (it’s a 2 min. drive from our house)…and he said “call me if you decide to have the baby tonight” LOL Yeah right. I’m betting my body is just doing this to me…and the second I go into L&D it will stop. ha! So I’m waiting to see how things go before I think about calling DH home from work…
But ouch! The pain down in my hips is soooo bad!! Oh…and I’ve been having anal pressure (yeah yeah, TMI – but it’s my blog…so there ). Not every time though…just one in ten contractions.
1:44pm
So…I managed to get to sleep for 5 hours (from 8am-1pm…off and on of course) and now my contractions seemed to have disappeared. So I don’t think I’ll be having him today…but I definitley think my body is gearing up for the BIG DAY! Yay!!
Ok… back to my couch… feet are so swollen 
I am NOT happy about being awake. It is 5:24am here…on a Saturday!
Why am I awake? Oh… a few things. One of them being my contractions that have been stronger than I’ve ever had, but not coming in a consisitant pattern. And the other is my horrible heartburn. So I’m sitting here snacking on TUMS and hoping everything will stop (or that I’ll ACTUALLY go into labour…yeah right!) so I can go back to sleep!
“only 26 more days…only 26 more days…”
… it’s 12:30am and I couldn’t sleep.
DH pointed out to me today that we have no baby monitor. Not that we didn’t have one all picked out…we just never got around to ordering it. So I got out of bed to do that because I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
I bought the Angel Care monitor…. normally $149.99 but Sears had it on for $139.99 … and then I had a code for $20 off any online order (see? it pays to do nothing but search the internet for coupons and freebies 
) So I only paid $119.99 for it. Yay me! They said it should be delivered by Nov. 8th …. hopefully Thor holds out that long…
Well…I guess I should go try and sleep now….
I had my 36 week checkup today. My blood pressure meds are helping and the doctor has ordered me on bed rest. And that’s really all I have to say on that subject.
In other news…I’ve changed my mind. I don’t want to give birth. This little baby can stay right where he is at forever if that’s what he wants. We’re happy like this..why change it?
I know, I know…I’m sounding crazy. But, I just received some horrible news that has frightened me about this next step … birth.
A friend of mine – an online friend – who has been near and dear to me throughout the pregnancy (we are due close together) had a scheduled c-section last week. Her baby is healthy and she has two small boys at home as well. But a few dayslater…she died. I’m still not clear on all the details, I only know that she died as a result of the c-section.
…and now I’m terrified of giving birth. Not to mention the fact that I’m trying to keep calm while grieving for this wonderful woman, who at the age of 26 has been taken from her family without any rhyme or reason…
