Dr.'s Appointment!

   I just got back from my Dr.'s appointment and guess what? I'm 2cm dilated and 70% effaced!!!!!! I was 1cm dilated the week before Rory came so who knows when this one will arrive!! This is good news and not so good news. Good news because I am ready for baby to be here and its fantastic that my body is going to begin the labor process by itself (so it seems). I do not want to be induced and of course I do not want to have a c-section and while I'm being really picky, I do not want my labor augmented either. Hopefully Oxytocin/pitocin can be avoided. I don't want any help getting this baby out. Well...maybe a back rub or two :)

   This news is not so good because I need to make it until February 17th to have all of my clinical time complete in order to take 4 weeks off that I have planned (which has now turned into 5 due to our schedule change, yes!!!). Either way, things will work out but oh the stress of thinking about it!!

   I have been having lots of pressure down there on and off throughout the past few days as well as some braxton hicks. I noticed at the gym this morning that I kept having some  contractions and mild pain down under so I had an idea that something had changed. The gym is such an outlet for me and I'm not quite ready to give it up yet but I think its time. :( This makes me incredibly sad.


   Onto the  GREAT news. I saw Dr. Huff this morning and if she is the one to deliver my baby (which I hope she is not aside from the two reasons I'm about to explain) I will not have to be hooked up to a pump. Meaning no continuous fluids, no machine to lug back and forth to the bathroom, and no annoying cords to get tangled up in. Since I am planning a natural, medication free birth, they are willing to give me as much freedom to move around as possible. Each Dr. is different, so I will have to check with the other 2 in the weeks to come. Also, she does not make continuous baby monitoring mandatory for all natural deliveries. Meaning that I wont have to have the transducers around my stomach 24-7 to monitor the baby. Those things are restrictive as well. She said we could just do intermittent monitoring ever half hour or so! So, these are two things that I can cross of my list to worry about. I want to be as free and mobile as possible for this delivery. I do not want to lay in the bed or drag around some machine as my insides are literally being ripped out. 

   As stressful as the next couple of months are going to be, I am so excited to meet this baby and to feel the love of having a newborn again! It is such a wonderful feeling to stare at such an amazing little creature that you created and that was growing inside of you. I cannot wait to see what this baby looks like and if its a boy or girl!!!