quotes to make the day

• "still at a one and 70%. i'm surprised you haven't made any progress at all..." -doctor
  
• "shall we schedule an induction for next tuesday?" -doctor
  
• "is baby boy getting here this week?" "so they're going to induce you next tuesday?" -uncle mattie
• "now you can say your little boy will be here no later than tuesday! which just stinks for us here. :(" -crystal
• "ahh shucks!" -amy
• "come on baby come on!" - amy
• "baby o baby...where o where can you be?" -pa
• "come to see you pa...right now." -pa
• "come on baby. come on." -pa

two nights in a row, i've dreamt i was in labor. each time i had a contraction in my dream, i woke up. i tried to concentrate to see if i was really in pain, and i honestly thought i was. when i finally got up in the morning, it felt like something i could have imagined. could i have been too groggy and made up the pain? i don't think so.

at our appt today i told the doctor that the baby had seemed to slow down in the past couple of days. he's still getting all of his movements in during the 2 hour allotment, he's just much more quiet than normal. to make sure everything was fine, she put me in a recliner and plugged me onto the fetal monitor. we measured the baby's heartbeat and my contractions for about 45 minutes. i was fairly uncomfortable in the room. i had several big-time contractions in my back and was becoming increasingly uncomfortable and irritable.

when the doc finally came in to check she said the baby looked great and had "woken up". she followed that up with, "you've been having contractions, mama. have you felt those?" uh...yeah. she said i could go into labor before tuesday, after all, but made sure our induction was still scheduled for tuesday morning, august 18th, 7am. all that means...

"well, now we know no later than a week!! :)" -seph