I Caved

I had my second doctor's appointment this week. It went ok, baby is not active in the mornings, so it takes a long time on those NST tests. On Monday the doctoer asked if I wanted to be checked and I declined. But today, since I wasn't feeling well the last couple of days, I was interested to see maybe if something was happening. She checked and really there is not much happening. There is a slight bit of progress. I am about 33% effaced, which is the thinning of the cervix. I am 1cm dilated, which it needs to be 10cm in order to have the baby. Then baby is at stage -2. This one is a bit harder to explain. Baby is dropping from being high, to being in the pelvis. At stage -3, it means she is technically not dropped, the uterus is still high in the body. So -2 is a progress, even though it feels like she is literally in my cervix and about to fall out at night. The stages go -3, -2, -1, 0, 1,2,3, you can guess what the 1,2,3 are, she is in the pelvis and crowning.

I called and let my mom know because she was planning on coming out this Saturday. Well, doctor said it could be 2 weeks. Everything looks fine, she's coming along nicely. I'm thinking my mom should change her ticket to Saturday 2/13 now, since she can only stay two weeks, what if I had the baby on 2/15? That would stink to only have mom there for a few days to help. Plus I'll be working the entire time she is here if I don't have the baby, because I don't have any days to just take off. I have to work right up to "go time". Then baby comes and I am off work for 12 weeks.

Babies come when they want to, when the time is right. We'll see!
La Sirena and cozy Tadpole