Anyone heard from Crissyanna? :shock:

She could just be exhausted or busy....

Unfortunately, both.

No baby yet. I go the midwife today at 11:15. I was so hoping that I had had Dainyah by now, especially after being told last week I would probably be going this past week. I have decided that if she offers to strip my membranes or anything, the answer is a YES!!!! My tail bone hurt so bad yesterday afternoon and I could barely make it up the stairs while cleaning (the landlord called to say he had interested buyers coming to look at the duplex so it was a crash course in cleaning). I was going to vacuum before they got here, but I just couldn't. I apologized that we were home when they showed up to look, but I could hardly waddle anywhere.

I did get my hair cut yesterday though and we did get some groceries. So, it wasn't a totally wasted day. Oh, and my grandma sent me some money, so I got an exercise ball to sit on. I hope that starts something.....

Those exercise balls are meant to be quite good.

I am glad you got to get your hair done before hand! I am waiting until after because I dread trying to sit in the hair dressing chair for long periods of time -

I'm sorry you're feeling so lousy. I'll be praying for you.

I went to the midwife's yesterday now at eleven fifteen. I was a strong 2 cm dilated, and she tried stretching my cervix (guess it is like having the membranes stripped but not quite). That started a great case of cramps. Then about 4:00, I notice they are coming in waves, so we start timing them and it was about fifteen to twenty minutes apart. Well, I decide we had to go walking, so we went to wal-mart, a few cell phone stores to compare plans and phones, then the mall and hiked all over it and then back to wal-mart at about seven thirty to get something quick to fix for dinner. We came home, and by then the contractions had gotten to seven minutes apart. We ate, I finished off a book I was reading, and the contractions were down to close to five minutes apart so I decided I wanted to take a shower. By the time I was done, and then looked at my prenatal books to double check the times of contractions and what they normally mean, I was down to four minutes apart. I decide I need to have at least four or five that close or closer before I would go the hospital. We leave the house about ten thirty. No more dilation when I get there. Hubby and took turns playing tetris on the game boy and watching the computer monitor screen. That sure was interesting. The electrode thingy to track the contractions didn't register mine unless I was on my back. And I can't tolerate being on my back or even half on my back because that sends me into back labor horribly. Then, Dainyah would move and we would loose her heartbeat on it and of course it would start dinging. Then, the blood pressure cuff got loose and that made noise. It was just so annoying! The midwife on call was very nice though. I was pretty much given the option of taking a sleeping pill and staying there, taking one and coming home or just coming home after about an hour and a half of no change in the cervix. I opted for no pill and coming home. Tylenol PM puts me out for 13 hours, so I didn't want to risk taking an Ambien. I was told that I could take some benedryl to help me sleep if I needed to. Well, a dose of that will knock me out for at least nine hours normally. I think I may take a half dose if I can't get to sleep in an hour or so. We got home at one thirty. I am still having contractions pretty regularly, I just refuse to be timing them right now. It will just stress me out more. We get home, and I crawl into bed and the contractions hurt more than when I was at the hospital. I figure it is because I am way more comfortable and relaxed at home.

Oh well. The nurse I had was very nice too. She said she'll see me again and it won't be too long. I just hate the thought of going past my due date. I don't know if I can handle it. My midwife today said she could induce me on the 25th if I don't go by then. I was like, that is only five days past my due date!!!!! I told her I didn't think that day would work for us since that is the one year anniversary of when we lost our first baby. So, she said she'd do it the 29th instead. I am praying so hard we go before then. And that day buys me four more days to come up with a good excuse as to why not that day either since I came up with the 28th for my due date.

I think I need to try and sleep some. I am tired, but I don't know if I can. I keep having contractions. I still have my plug, for the most part. I've been slimy all day today and have lost about two globs of mucus. One was a clear brownish color, but not very big. I want to see my plug, which is kind of weird, but you hear so much about it. I might take a benedryl in an hour or so if I can't sleep. At least I can sleep in tomorrow. If I don't go by Sunday, I think I will be staying home from church. I had contractions last Sunday at church, however they stopped after we got home and I took a nap. That was dissappointing. And I don't want the, you're still pregnant questions being brought up. Um, thanks, you see the baby? Just checking. ARGH.

praying for you

Crystal - hoping everything is going well! and progressing for you.

Thanks Jeanine. I appreciate it.

Nothing so far today. I finally fell asleep close to three thirty or four this morning. Had to wake up every hour to use the bathroom, and I was still have contractions. They finally stopped about six this morning. I was so wiped out and sore from them last night I slept until twelve thirty this afternoon. My mom called and woke me at ten thirty. I think I was kind of mean to her on the phone. She wanted to see if I had gone back to the hospital or something. ARGH. :twisted: We promised to call her if we did :roll: I did call her back later this afternoon and talked to my dad. She was out with my sister at a craft fair. I told dad that she did not have to call me back. I figure on a phone call about seven or so tonight....

I'm surprised Peter's mom hasn't called me today to check up on me. She thought for sure I would be going last Sunday night and stayed up waiting for her phone to ring. She called me the next day to check. We've been pretty good about calling our parents on a near daily basis to assure them I haven't popped yet.

I am going to go and take a shower and then take a nap. Peter is off work at eight tonight. I am still thinking of skipping church tomorrow. Depends on how I feel in the morning, I guess. And how many times people call the remainder of the day (read my mom) and bothers me. After she called the first time, Peter did remind me that I DID NOT have to answer my phone. I don't know why I can't just let it go to voicemail. I would turn the ringer off, but he calls me every break and all that. If I don't answer then, he gets kind of worried. Go figure.

I did decide that the next time we go in, I am taking some crocheting or a book or something to do. It is so easy to get bored lying there. Being tethered to the bed and having to get the nurse to unplug me and mark down the fact I went to the bathroom was so annoying. And then, I was pretty much stuck there and I was bored, even though we did have the game boy. Though, the noises were so distracting to me (I go on auditory overload so easily. I can process nearly anything visually, but too many sounds drive me bonkers) that I had some horrid games. Peter was nice though and when it was his turn to play, he didn't put the sound on (that music drives me totally up the wall, but he needs it to play. He is an auditory person and visual stuff will put him on overload. Yeah, things can be interesting around here with our totally different styles of relating and learning. Sure can't wait to see what kind of person Dainyah is).

Peter was pretty good through it all. He asked if I minded if he did this, that or whatever. Told me I could ask for anything basically. I asked him to rub my scalp and play with my hair since that relaxes me and he did until I asked him to at least stop combing it. He would comb the same spot over and over and it got to the point where it kind of hurt. He rubbed my back and tried to cuddle me on the bed, but there really wasn't that much room. I felt better with him there on it with me though. I feel safer and more comfy when his arms are around me.

I do hope I get to use the bath tub next time. It is deep, when filled the water should come close to my shoulders and there are some lovely looking jets in it. I want a bathtub similar to that in my house someday. I wonder if I had asked to have gotten in it, if things may have progressed instead of stalling out (well, except for the contractions when we got home last night.). Guess we shall never know.

As of last night, my desire for a homebirth is stonger than ever. Oh well, maybe the next baby will be born where homebirthing is more legal. I certainly hope so.

Oh, and I have no signs of anything starting back up again in the near future either. I am really thinking I may be pregnant forever. I don't think I could stand that. Though, if I am induced, it will be two weeks from yesterday. So, there is a definitive end in sight. The uncertainty and the waiting though are torture!

Thanks AussieMum, we were posting at the same time!

Nothing brewing right now. If I didn't feel so tired and kind of achy after last night's contractions (I think they lasted for about ten hours for sure and then off and on for another three or four), I would be doing squat thrusts and running up and down my stairs to get something going. However, I don't think I can handle it, and to top it off, it is HOT here again. We were to get to 92 degrees. I haven't had the air conditioner on because of the cost, and it had cooled down so nicely. I am not going to turn the a/c back on though because it will run for at least eight hours to cool down the house. And I would be tempted to turn it as low as it would go and we can't afford that one. Oh well.

I keep singing the song Come Out, Come Out Wherever You are from the Wizard of Oz. The one that Glenda the good witch sings to the munckins after Dorothy's house falls on the bad witch and they are all hiding. However, I know where Dainyah is.

And what is really sad, I was playing with a penguin that Peter insisted we had to get for he (it is pink, plays twinkle twinkle little star in tune and can go in the bathtub) against my belly the other day and told her it was hers if she just came out to get it. I was bribing my unborn daughter!!!!!! When I realized that, I couldn't believe it. Though, when I pushed the button on it to play the music, she liked it. Then, I tell her to look down and move towards the light.

I seriously think this may cause me to offically lose my mind. At least the hospital should have a decent psych ward.

Crystal LOL LOL about the penguin! You made me laugh!

You poor love, I really do feel for you!!! I know from talking to many a Mum who've gotten to the hospital and labour has stopped and they've broken down out of sheer dispair. The staff must see it all the time (small comfort to you).

I actually feel guilty for all you "waiting to go into labour Mum's" knowing that if I don't go into spontaneous labour between now and next monday, that I will be having the baby then and I actually WANT her to stay in until then LOL