39 Weeks

Headed to the hospital on Wednesday morning (30 July)... False Alarm!!  Evan woke me up at 6am crying that he wanted to go to the airport.  After I got him settled down and back to bed, I went back to bed myself.  As soon as I laid down I felt pain in my lower abdoment and back.  This was unlike the pains I had been feeling recently, and seemed familiar to how we started the day when Evan was born.  I tried changing positions, but nothing really helped.  Figured I'd better go ahead and get up and shower.

Started timing my contractions after I got out of the shower, and they were coming fairly regularly, approximately 5 minutes apart.  I got Blaine out of bed, and he called Grandma & Grandpa to come pick up Evan.  Got Evan ready to go, ate some breakfast, and called Tricia.  She said she would meet us at the hospital and check me out.

Got to the hospital around 8:35am.  Registered and went to triage.  Tricia had to go back to the office, so the nurse checked me at about 9:30 and I was only 1.5 centimeters dilated.  Uh oh, I knew I still had a long way to go if this was going to happen today!  The nurse talked to Tricia, and she said for me to walk around the hospital, drink some water, and get checked again.  Blaine and I walked around the hospital, back and forth to the cafeteria several times, before returning to triage at 11:00.  While we were walking I had a lot of pain in my hips, and my back was starting to hurt, but it seemed like my contractions weren't very close together.  I started wondering/fearing if I was going to be sent home.  

Around 11:30 the nurse checked me again.  She said the goal was for me to be at 4 centimeters.  Yeah, not even close.  Still only at 1.5 centimeters.  So they sent us packing.  My next regular appointment with Tricia is tomorrow (Thursday, 31 July), so as long as nothing happens tonight I'll go to my appointment tomorrow and get checked out again.

It's been just about 9 months that we've waited to meet Nolan, so what's another day or two, right?  But this waiting is driving me crazy!  Evan keeps saying that he's ready to meet his brother.  We all are, little boy.   

Had my checkup with Tricia on Thursday, 31 July.  Still no change.  Nolan tricked me on Wednesday, but it looks like my body is nowhere near ready for him to arrive.  If nothing happens over the weekend, I'll go back and see her on Tuesday, 5 Aug, and she'll try to get things jump started.  Blaine never thought I'd make it to August.  Now let's see who's birthday will be first - Nolan's or Blaine's!