August 12th, 2008
The only thing worse than going past your due date without giving birth is finding out that you are making ZERO progress!
Yep, as of my appointment yesterday I am still fingertip dilated, 50% effaced, cervix posterior i.e. not a lick of progress since last week. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
This, my friends, is why people say not to get [...]
August 5th, 2008
Excuse me while I take a few deep breaths.. I am still traumatized by my appointment yesterday.
It all started out innocently enough, I met the only midwife in the practice that I hadn’t seen before and she was as great as all the others. I weighed in at 160, a 2lb gain [...]
July 31st, 2008
I never posted about my 38 week appointment on Monday. Probably because it was totally uneventful..
Midwife Judy (who was the one who took care of me during my first preterm labor episode) didn’t offer me an internal and I didn’t ask for one figuring that I’d get one at my next 39 week appointment.
This made [...]
July 22nd, 2008
Sunday marked an important milestone, little Jasper turned 37 weeks old and is now full term - yay!!! He’s welcome, indeed strongly ENCOURAGED to make his appearance anytime now, preferably sooner rather than later as mommy is getting very uncomfortable.
Sunday night I had menstrual like cramps all night long (I know this because I woke [...]