13-4-2009 - UPDATE...BEING INDUCED

My mood while writing this blog: happy and nervous all at once

Hello to all my peeps out here. I have great news.......

I'm being INDUCED tomorrow!!!!

So as most of you know I had my 40 week appointment today. I had another NST done and then she checked my cervix right after. Well let me start by when I walked in to the office....(it was pretty funny). I get off the elevator and walk into the office and the receptionist says to me...I thought you were done last week and your still pregnant, what's up with that..she says. I laughed and said tell me about it. So I sit down and wait to be called, next thing I know my favorite nurse calls my name--well not really my name she actually calls for "Miss 40 weeks on tuesday"...I died laughing because nobody in the waiting room was anywhere near 40 weeks. So I go in the back and go pee like normal, but when I came out of the bathroom my doctor was standing there and says to me....ya know Kathy I have been on call for the past week and I have been waiting for you to show up, as she's making a joke about how pregnant I am. Anyways it was pretty funny, well I go into the room to have my NST done. Well wouldn't you know it, my little guy would not cooperate at all.....oh such a surprise there.lol It took the nurse 20 mins to get a good enough heartbeat to be heard. Don't get me wrong it was there the whole time but everytime she took her hands off the little pad thing the hearbeat would be very very faint. So finally after 20 mins she finally got it and of course the whole time we were making jokes about how stubborn my little guys is going to be. So after she leaves the room and I'm laying there listening to my little ones heartbeat and watching him just lay there...the paper runs out. So after all the trouble she had to find the heartbeat the paper runs out. It was funny I couldn't help but laugh. My doctor comes in and takes the strapps of me and says she's going to do my cervical next. So she starts doing my cervical and says you have got to be kidding me. I'm like WHAT? Nothing has changed since last week. I'm still stuck at 1cm, cervix hasn't thinned out any, she tried to sweep it again and nothing. She says get dressed and we'll talk after. I get dressed and she comes back in and says what do you want to do? I said I'm done. She says I'll be right back, about 5 mins goes by and she comes into the room and hands me admission papers for tomorrow night at 8pm. I was like wow that was quick.

At first I was all excited and happy about this whole thing being over. Now that I've had a few hours for it to sink in I'm getting a little nervous. I want this to be over but at the same time I'm freaking out a little on the inside about labor. Keep in mind people I will be getting drugs---that's a given because I don't do pain at all. I'm not nervous about getting the epidural but what I'm not feeling to great about is them putting in my back. I'm not afraid of needles at all, but normally when I have to get poked for whatever, I can watch them put the needle in my arm or hand. That doesn't bother me at all, what bothers me about the epidural, I can't watch them put it in my back----THAT JUST SCARES THE CRAP OUT OF ME!!!! I don't know something about a needle near my spine....that just doesn't sound right no matter how you break it down, and I know I shouldn't worry about it but I do.

Anyways sorry about rambleing on and on. So I should have my little guy sometime Wednesday. My little guy will always be a tax baby..lol April 15th. I'll give you guys all the update when I come home.