Introducing Ella!

She was born at 4:55 PM yesterday, weighed 7 lbs 10 oz and was 20 inches long. I'll post other details later for those interested. :)

Baby on the way...

Well, after being somewhat bummed after my appointment yesterday (not much progress, scheduling an induction, yada, yada) even thinking about going another week with the contractions I was having was not a good feeling.
Thankfully, last night around 10:00 I started getting regular contractions and they stayed regular. I couldn't sleep they were becoming so painful so I got up around 2:00 and took a bath and that took the edge off of the contractions for awhile and they were 5 minutes or less at this point. Finally, around 3:30 the contractions were getting even closer than 5 minutes and at this point I was REALLY needing some drugs. I woke Cary up and told him we should probably head to the hospital.
So long story short. I'm at the hospital, in labor. More details will follow. :)

Due Date Update

If you don't want to read about the status of my uterus then I'd stop reading now. :) Just kidding, I won't go into that much detail.

I had my appointments today and we've scheduled an induction for next Monday if this kid hasn't made her appearance by then. We have made some progress in the last week, but my body isn't quite "there" for an induction this week so we'll just wait it out. Once again having that elective c-section option looming overhead can be very tempting but if I don't HAVE to have one then I don't want to do that.

Now I'm awake...

because of contractions. I was awake at this time yesterday morning as well because of contractions, so this has almost been going on for 2 days and I'm kind of getting tired of it. Sometimes they are bad enough I want the epidural NOW. :-)

What a fun guessing/ waiting game.

P.S.- This post was brought to you because people were making fun of me saying that I'd be on the computer giving updates while in labor, so here you go!

I guess she's related...

It's Saturday morning and I've been awake since 5:30 AM. Ugh. Not because of Cary or Aidan either. :) (insomnia people, not contractions, don't get all excited)

Who'd of thought I'd still be pregnant right now? Not me!!! I guess Ella heard all those people (including myself) who thought she'd be here earlier and said "I'll show all of you!" and she is. Yay. The stubbornness starts already...

I've been SO restless this week though that it's driving me crazy. I've spent a ton of money since shopping has been somewhat of an outlet, as well as cleaning and I've cleaned, organized closets, and yesterday I bought a carpet cleaner and cleaned my carpet. :-)

Life is good.

Happy Anniversary!

To us! :)

Some days it seems like 3 years wasn't that long ago and other times it's like forever ago.

I guess I like to torture myself

Here are my 39 week pictures. My appointment was a little on the depressing side since I haven't progressed at. all. and when I went for the non stress test, Ella's head wasn't even near my pelvis. Head down little girl! Head down! My doctor will let me go to 42 weeks if I'm not having any issues (obviously) but that's kind of a depressing thought, especially if I didn't progess that whole time and still ended up with a c-section. =P BUT I'm waiting it out and we'll see what happens since I haven't even hit my due date yet! :)