Still here, still pregnant...

It has been way, way, way too long since I’ve updated last. Things at work have been extremely insane since I last posted. I finally feel like I can leave now. I guess that’s a good thing considering I’m almost THREE DAYS OVERDUE!!!!!

I guess I can’t complain too much. At this point it’s all a mental thing. I’m not too uncomfortable, still sleeping relatively well through the night, and still in relatively good spirits. I just want to meet this baby. I want to know what/who it looks like, I want to know if it is a boy or girl. I’m just so anxious. I know a very small percentage of ladies actually deliver on their due dates, I just thought I might get lucky and be in that very small percentage.

Even though I haven’t been posting much, I have been keeping up on my reading. I also haven’t been commenting nearly as much as I used to, but again that’s because there’s time to read and that’s about it. You ladies have a lot of interesting things going on.

This pregnancy has been wonderful. I haven’t had any of the typical discomforts of pregnancy. No swelling, no heartburn, no peeing a million times in the middle of the night, all in all very uncomplicated. It’s hard to write when there’s nothing wrong, that’s another reason my posts have been lacking.

At this point, I’ve been contracting mildly for the past 2 weeks, stronger lately though. At my last appointment I was 1-2 cm dilated and the doctor stripped my membranes. That experience was not as painful as I was expecting. Maybe that was just a sign that it wasn’t gonna work. We’ve been doing everything in the book to get this labor going; sex, orgasm, nipple stimulation, spicy foods, walking, doing housework, moving furniture, etc. Nothing has worked.

So here’s the plan for the overdone baby. I have my weekly doctor’s appointment on Friday (40w 5d). This won’t be the typical pee, weight, and bp visit. From what the doctor said last week, they’ll hook me up to the monitors, monitor the contractions and baby’s heart rate, and I get an ultrasound. I assume the ultrasound is to see how big baby is. At this point, I have no idea how big this kid is.

Now we just wait...

For all of you who sent me e-mails checking in on me, I truly, truly appreciate it. I really didn’t mean to leave you all hanging for the season finale. Hopefully I’ll have a story to share very soon.