I suppose I still have four hours but what are the chances?

My mom and I took the boy swimming and then had one of his friends over for a play date today. The BG and I went out for a spicy dinner - our third date in a week and only the sixth in nearly two years.

Even though I wanted this baby out a while ago, it’s been really nice that the BG got to relax for the first 2 weeks of his vacation and super to have my mom here to help out while I have a hard time moving around and to let us get some breaks together. It’s going to suck when she has to leave on Sunday. I sure hope the baby’s out by then or we’re screwed!

I see my OB tomorrow at 1 pm so if nothing has happened by then we may have to have a non-stress test, ultrasound to check fluid levels, schedule an induction (ouch! I’m taking the epidural if I have to be induced.) or who knows what else. It’s apparently riskier to labour every day I go over because of my rather fresh scar but I will insist on at least a little labour even if baby can’t get out and I end up with a cesarean because babies need to be squeezed and all that. Plus, I don’t want to cheat. On Christmas Eve I was 1 cm dilated and 50% thinned (have I told you that before? I’m having déjà vu…) so I sure hope I’m more than that when I get there tomorrow. Actually, I hope I’m in labour or have already had the baby so I don’t have to go there at all, but you know. Anyhoo, she said she doesn’t anticipate me having any trouble getting to 10 cm easier and faster than last time because I’ve done it but it’s the passing of the baby through the pelvis that might be an issue since the boy got stuck and had to be taken out surgically so we don’t know if this one will fit properly through my gimpy bones.

Ah well. I’m past the point of being picky. I just can hardly wait to meet our baby!