10 days over, and counting

We are getting close to the end, if not by natural means we at least have a date that medical intervention will be employed!!!

Today we had our last (i hope) hospital visit as an outpatient, the next time we walk through those door we will not be walking out till we have our little Peanut safely in our arms. That is kind of KEWL thought.

I rang the delivery suite on Friday because i was freaking out slightly that i had not listened properly to the obs at our last visit and i had no idea of what was going to happen when. I spoke to really nice midwife who basically assured me that what i had remembered from the obs visit was correct but that i just had some of my terminology wrong.

If i do not go into labour naturally myself the baby will be induced on Thursday, BUT, we will actually come to the hospital Wednesday night where they do a pre-inducing procedure (not going to give you a visual) and then i will stay in over night and hopefully by Thursday they can start the inducing process. She said that half the time the pre procedure actually brings on labour anyway so it is all good.

The midwife then went on to give me few tips of what i can do to try and bring labour naturally myself, eating pineapple and/or a hot curry, going for walks, having a relaxing hot bath, and a few other things - most of these things i have tried anyway.

She also said that she could tell by the sound of my voice that i was stressed, well derrrrr, and that that might actually be setting me back a bit!!! Do you know what it does to a stressed person if you tell them they are stressed and not to stress??? They get MORE stressed!!!

Buy anyway - the hospital visit today:

We arrived at the hospital for our 9.00am appointment (on a Sunday!?!?!?) and i was strapped to a monitoring machine. Because of the position the baby was in i had to hold the sensor thingy in place and because of the whole fluid in my hands at the moment i promptly developed pins and needles and could not hold it. M34tb4LL held the sensor for me, and perched next to me on tiny plastic chair - while i sat back in comfy easy chair! He is such a sweetheart (: The monitoring lady kept telling him if he wanted to stay she could use his help with some of the other women there!

Each time i felt the baby move i had to press a button and it would put a mark on the graph that the machine was printing. This would show what the babies heart beat is while resting and while moving. Basically each time, i felt him move, the heart beat went up! As it should be!!!

Only problem was, with the size of the sensor thing (not very big), each time he moved M34tb4LL had to move the sensor around because he would lose the heart beat and would have to find it again.

After about half an hour of monitoring the graph showed a happy baby with a healthy heart beat and good movements.

We then had an ultrasound to make sure there was still enough fluid around the baby to see us through the next could of days. There was 10.6cm, apparently this is good. The scanning lady said if there was 4cm or less then we would not wait till Wednesday and they would get me back in tomorrow, but 10cm compared to 4cm seems like a good difference.

So now if Peanut does not make the move first we will be going back to the hospital in about 74.5 hours to get him started, not that i'm counting the hours now!!!

(: Reggie