The Wait is Almost Over

I had another doctor's appointment today to see if we could go ahead with my induction on the 26th...and we got the green light!! Although it has taken me four weeks to go from a one to a two, it was enough for my doctor to feel more comfortable about inducing me. The baby's head is still not engaged, but it is a bit further down. My doctor now feels, as I have for weeks, that the baby's face is pointing toward my stomach. This accounts for my incredibly SLOW progress and the intense back pain I have been feeling for the last couple of days. Due to this presentation of the baby, it will most likely mean that I will be facing a longer labor - longer than I should experience since this is my third baby. Really, I don't care. As long as I have my epidural, I will be in labor for as long as it takes!! By my doctor's estimates, though anything can happen, expect Baby Robeen to make his/her appearance late afternoon on the 26th!!!

Forgot the HAPPY News!!

In my vast disappointment with my doctor's appointment I forgot to mention the extremely wonderful event that happened yesterday....Jenna pooped in the potty!! Now, if you have been following my blog, I have posted about the potty war before. Jenna has been "pee" trained since she was three. She no longer needs a pull-up at nap nor at night and hasn't used one for a long time. But the poop. Oh the poop! She has had an unexplainable fear of pooping in the potty. Nothing we did or said could change this fear. After trying rewards and punishment, we gave up and just let her poop in a pull-up, sitting on the potty. I began the when-you-are-four-there-are-no-more-pull-ups speech a couple of months ago. Well, for whatever reason, yesterday she decided that she was going to poop in the potty. I said, OK, thinking nothing would happen. But, she did it. And, boy, did we celebrate! She ran and told Alex. She called Daddy at work. And then the rewards...Jenna got a Ben 10 figure, that she has known has been in the house waiting for just this moment and she got all her "truckses" back that had been previously taken away (part of the punishment that did not work). She pooped two more times in the potty yesterday and has pooped three times in the potty today. Yes, extreme, but we think she is still getting used to it and doesn't release everything at one go. Regardless, we are so proud of her and more importantly she is so proud of herself and has declared herself an official big girl!! Way to go Jenna, you beat your fourth birthday deadline and we are so happy for you!!!

Yes, we are STILL waiting...

After enduring three weeks of contractions and cramping, I am STILL at a loose one. This was my fourth exam with no change at all. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. So, the plan for now is to go back in for another exam on Tuesday morning to see if I am more favorable for my scheduled induction on Thursday, June 26th. It would be nice to go into labor on my own before then, but if that does not happen, then I am hoping that regardless of how my appointment goes on Tuesday the induction will happen on Thursday. The discomfort is starting to take it's toll on me and my family. I easily snap at the kids and have cried more than I really care too. I just told Joe tonight that I am starting to loose perspective on this because I am focusing more on just having the pregnancy over than meeting our new little baby. Stay tuned...who knows what will happen!

Still Waiting...

No baby yet. We are still waiting. Me, waiting not so patiently. I'm extremely uncomfortable. Enough said. My new theory is that this baby will be born on Friday the 13th, because really, who wants to have their baby born on Friday the 13th!! I told Joe that if it is a boy born on the 13th we will just have to name him Jason!! I have another doctor's appointment on the 12th. Hopefully all of these contractions I have been having will have made some change bringing me that much closer to meeting the little wriggly one in my belly!!

Pregnancy Brain at it's best

So, today I pulled the all-time winning pregnancy brain move so far. This takes the cake for all the other pregnancy brain moves I have made from all my pregnancies. So, Alex and I had to go grocery shopping today (Jenna is spending time at Banya and Papa's...all by herself). When we left our house, it was cloudy but showing no signs of raining. As we get closer to Meijer, the end of the world is descending upon us and we drive right into a powerful thunderstorm. We pull into the parking lot and sit in the car a bit as we decide what we want to do - dash for the store and get soaked or just head home (at $4.00 a gallon of gas this wasn't really appealing to me). As we were sitting there was a slight lull in the storm and I said to Alex let's just go for it, it's only rain we'll dry off. So, as we open the doors I tell Alex not to lock them, that way we can get back into the car quickly if it is still raining. We take off, I do not go into labor while running to the store, and we proceed to shop. About one hour later, we are checked out and I go to get my keys. I cannot find them anywhere!! Then, it hits me, I left them in the car. I tell Alex we are locked out. He reminds me we didn't lock the doors. Now, I think we don't have a car anymore because someone stole it. As we head out, I see our car - relief. Alex opens my door and says "Yep, Mom they're here." I had left the keys IN the ignition with the doors unlocked!!! I'm lucky it was not stolen. Ahh, pregnancy brain at it's finest. I put Alex in charge of the keys the rest of the trip for his fee of $2.00!! So sad when your 5 year old is more responsible than you are!!