1 Week Late

I admit… I’ve been having a bit of a “dilation pity party” this week. I feel like a bad dilator… a week late and only 1cm!! Shouldn’t things be “happening” by now??

Last night I got a glimmer of hope. I felt a few good contractions!! I started thinking maybe things are going to happen sooner than later. I was so excited I did what every reasonable mom-to-be would do… I took a shower, shaved my legs, gave myself a pedicure, put on some self-tanner, curled my hair, and put on some make-up. Mind you it was 11:30 at night, but if it was going to happen I wanted to look my best! Well nothing happened… all that beautifying for nothing. I haven’t felt any more contractions since.

We had another appointment at the doctor today (I’m going every other day now until he comes) and everything is looking great! So it's silly to be feeling sorry for myself right??? I blame it on hormones! At any rate... Doctor Biter said Baby B is weighing around 7 lbs, so there is no worry of him being “too big”, and he continues to score a perfect 8/8 for fetal vital signs. He’s happy as can be in there-kicking all over, practice breathing, sucking his thumb, etc! We decided that even though my patience is being stretched to the limit, that it is best to let nature do it’s thing. So it could be any minute… or it could be another full week!! If Baby B does not come in the next few days we will induce early next week, which will be a full 2 weeks late! In the meantime, I’m going to try to focus on the positive. No more dilation pity parties. Even though my cervix is not dilating… my uterus gets an A+ for providing such a fabulous and comfortable home! And I'm just going to start ignoring all of the pregnancy/baby newsletters with the subject "Congratulations on Your Newborn". I'm sure they are not trying to intentionally throw it in my face that I'm late :-)