Pregnancy Update #2

Yep... still pregnant.

Let's face it... the kid is comfy as ever and won't even lock her head down in the ready position. Can you blame her? It's not only an election year, but gas is on it's way up to $10/gallon and the water at our house smells like a sewage plant!

Believe it or not... as anxious as I am to not be so pregnant anymore... I'm actually completely OK and not at all in a hurry to pop this kid out. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I know exactly what I'm getting into. And getting up every 2-3 hours for who-knows-how-long in the coming days is something I know better than to try and rush into. Not that she won't be worth it! Maybe I associate a lot of that time with how things were with Ricky. With him, those late night awakenings involved quite a bit more than a feeding session followed by a diaper change and return to bed. Typically, the tube feeding then had to be hung, the bedding along with his clothes usually had to be changed because his feeding tube had leaked all over, the central line had to be checked and often re-secured, and then there was often a period of time lying awake waiting to hear if he was going to throw up all over things as well! While I would do all of that all over again 5 times a night or more to have him back... I guess I'm hoping that Ella's routine will prove to be a walk in the park in comparison to what I became accustomed to.

Needless to say... I have been loving these days off to prepare and organize. And since I work nights normally, catching up on sleep has been literally - a dream. I'm very excited to meet this baby and get the delivery over with. But unlike what I expected to be doing, I'm not downing gallons of raspberry leaf tea and eggplant parmesan. Having the set induction tomorrow is actually been a really nice treat. As of last week, I was dilated 4cm - a great start if you ask me considering I've hardly felt a thing! I figure when they check me tomorrow I'll probably be at 6cm... the doctor will break my water and after a few laps around the unit this kid will probably just fall out pain-free! Right?! (yeah, right....)

We have to be at the hospital at 6am. I plan to have my epidural in by 6:30. :) I'll probably be up at 4am drinking my protein smoothie and then we'll be on our way. We have Internet in the room and I have a feeling Eric will gladly distract himself with some blog updates throughout the day to avoid any marital conflicts with the pain-stressed wife.

That about covers it! Here's to one final night of peaceful, uninterrupted sleep!