Baby Watch Update #3

April has a doctor's appointment at 8:20 tomorrow morning and has asked that I meet her there. She is going to ask the doctor to schedule a C-section. She thinks that the baby is very big and if they try to induce her that she will labor long and hard and then end up having to have a C-section anyway. I hope that he will go ahead and schedule something tomorrow (induction/c-section). I know April is reaching the end of her patience rope and is really, really anxious to get on with things. I promise I will update here as soon as I learn something.

Baby Watch Update #2

We decided to fly to Florida yesterday.

We tried to pack light.

We figured April would deliver or be induced in the next few days anyway and it was making us crazy waiting around at home. Now we are in a hotel room that overlooks the hospital. We could walk over if we needed to.

April is going to call her doctor on Monday and try to schedule an appointment to talk to him again about being induced. She asked if I would like to go with her! I am very excited and touched by the offer. I will find out some time tomorrow morning when she was able to get an appointment.

Last night we went to a cute little restaurant that overlooks a like. Shon ordered fish and chips. Turns out one of his pieces of fish was very fish-like.

Yes, this is the kinds of things we notice.

Houston was having a ridiculous heat wave when we left and it's so much cooler here. Who'd think you had to fly from Texas to Florida to find some cool weather (cool is 92 degrees).

More info soon.

Baby Watch Update

Sunday we got a call that April "lost her mucous plug" (gack on that term) and that with her last two pregnancies she delivered within a week of losing it. She had her doctor's appointment today and was told the baby needed to come down some more. He didn't say anything about being dilated or not. She asked to be induced and he told her he wasn't comfortable with it. He said that he expected her to deliver before her appointment next week (on July 1 - her due date) but if she hadn't delivered her would talk to her about inducing then. So we are patiently (yeah, right) waiting here.

I don't know if I mentioned before that my parents are living with us right now. They put their house on the market because they kindly offered to live in our house while we were in Kuwait. They received an offer on their house 10 days after they put it on the market and closed on June 5. We STILL don't know if we are going to Kuwait but now it seems more likely we won't go. I have really enjoyed having them here as has my husband. We are lucky that we have a house that seems to accommodate 2 families very well. My dad has been doing a lot of the cooking and grocery shopping, which has been great and I have really enjoyed the company. Also, having my mom here when I bring home a newborn won't be a bad thing. I am hoping we don't go to Kuwait because that would be my preference because of having a newborn and all. If we do get the offer then it will be the 3 of us off on our Arabian Adventure.

My mom told me yesterday that she felt like it was me that was expecting because we are all uptight every time the phone rings. It's like you get this build up and then a let down. It's been pretty crazy around here although yesterday I was so bored I almost slipped into a coma. Today I have some errands to run and some activities to keep me busy. Tomorrow I am getting my color done (see ya gray hair) and some highlights. Anyone want to bet that I get the call when I have a head full of tin foil? Anyone want to hazard a guess on what day they think the baby will be born? Earlier this week I was really "feeling" it was going to be Thursday or Friday but today I am not getting anything. I guess my signals must be jammed. I think it would be awesome if she was born on Friday (June 26th) because it would be the same day that our referral from Vietnam was born, just two years later. That would be pretty cool.

Edited to add: What's up with all the italics today?

No Baby Today

Crap. April went to the doctor this morning and he said "see you next week"!? WTF? I don't have many details except he decided not to induce this week. I guess he's not too worried about that being a 14 pound baby anymore. Her caseworker hasn't spoken with her directly yet so I am hoping after she does I will have a few more details of how he got from being so sure the baby was going to be huge and wanting to induce to just scheduling another appointment in a week. I am still keeping my fingers crossed that he will decide to induce next week (she will be 1 week out from her due date by then) so we can at least have a little notice to get there in time for the birth. Now I am back to having my stomach do a back flip every time my cell phone rings.

Sign me as pins and needles in H-town.

Baby Maybe?

April, our expectant mom, went to her doctor's appointment last week and he told her that her baby had grown so rapidly since he had last examined her (three weeks prior) that he would most likely decide to induce her after her appointment tomorrow. He said that if the baby kept growing around the same rate that she would be 12-14 pounds by her due date! Holy Schmoly! She obviously knows her body because she told us back on May 22nd that she thought it was impossible she wouldn't deliver before her due date because she felt so much bigger than with her last two children.

We are very excited (and nervous) that it is so close to the time when the baby is going to be born and that we are going to have the opportunity to plan some and not just wait for the "she's in labor" phone call in the middle of the night.

Please send your positive thoughts our way. Who knows? We could be parents by tomorrow night. Crazy!