Friday was my last day at work before maternity leave, and I had a doctor's appointment in the morning. No dilation, no effacement, but measuring on target and cervix is still soft. But my due date is technically today so I wasn't that worried. We scheduled me for a final appointment next Friday, with possible induction needed on June 24. He said he would do a Foley bulb induction to get me to 3 cm then would start Pitocin. That scares me so much, since I know the C- Section rate int he US is about 70% due to inductions at 41 weeks. But we won't think about that yet. On the way to work, I got a flat tire from some chunk of metal that was sitting in the road, and I ended up waiting an hour an a half for AAA to get there to change my tire. On the up side, I was in a really nice neighborhood with my car parked under a tree, and it was sunny and 70 so I was just surfing the net on my phone for awhile. After that, I did go into work for only a half hour to gather some things and say goodbye, then I was off to run errands the rest of the day. I ended up spending most of the day on our rockers outside reading my baby books. So relaxing!
Saturday was M's 37th birthday, and he was out most of the morning at his parent's house helping his dad on a project he promised to do for him for Father's Day. I just did some chores and by the time he got home, it was time to cook his birthday dinner of grilled veggies and tofu dogs! We sat outside for the rest of the beautiful evening and just relaxed again, anticipating the big guy! M's birthday present was an iphone and he loved it!
Sunday it was mommy's turn to be pampered- I got a mani/pedi then we went up to my sister and brother in law's for Father's day dinner. I got M a Father's day gift (I had hoped he would be a father by June 17th!)....a tee shirt that says "Luke I am your father" from Star Wars, and some Flyers gear for the little guy. It was nice again to be waited on by everyone at my in laws'...I sat on a nice reclining chair in the shade and just sipped some water with lemon! It was heaven! Just what the doctor ordered before the storm hits :-)
Yesterday was also very interesting because at about 2:30AM, I lost my mucous plug. There was absolutely no doubt about it and I even showed M because we were wondering if I had lost it earlier in the day. I know it doesn't technically mean anything because people can lose their plug and have nothing happen for weeks, but it was still at least a sign that I'm now dilated, which is a change from Friday's doctor's appointment. I started to have very weird pains (I think they were light contractions, but who knows?!) about every 30 minutes last night from 2:30AM until about 5:30AM. They finally went away and I slept until 8:30AM this morning. I was bummed...I was hoping they would get stronger and not go away. I was hoping this was the beginning of "the" day. The first day of the rest of our lives.
So here we are, Monday morning, my "due" date, and nothing...so far. I hate the "due" date concept because it assumes everyone is the same and every baby will come exactly 40 weeks from a woman's last period and that's just not how it works! My doula is very good at reminding me of that....
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