Well, the long awaited day has come. The little parasite that  I carried for 41 weeks made his debut on April 28, 2010 even though he didn’t want to! As I wrote previously, I went in on April 27th to the hospital to start the induction process since I had made no progress and my blood pressure was up once again.

The induction wasn’t too bad. Not nearly as bad as what I thought it was going to be. They started me on something called cervidal which softens your cervix and can start labor. Start it indeed. I went from a tight 2 dilation to about a 6 (which one woman said it was 7.5 to an 8 but the other said she was too generous and I was a 6). Either way it had begun and I was feeling it.

They went ahead and took the cervidal out earlier than intended because of the quick progress. They called it quick, it was about 10 hours of contractions for me! Not quick but not horrible either. I dealt with it. They then broke my water and my progression was too slow so put me on pitocin.

This kid still did not want to drop down with all this going on. They said he was about a -2 which is still high up there. I went ahead and got an epidural after giving no medication my best shot. A little after getting the epidural I started getting horribly intense pains in my “nether regions”. It was bringing me to tears! They checked me and said I went from the -2 station to about a +1 which was three stations in about 30 minutes. I also had dilated from the 6-7 to about a 9 in that thirty minutes. So it was some pretty bad pains. However, they came back in and put more stuff in my epidural.

A little after noon we got the okay to start pushing. It took me a bit to feel my muscles and get in the rhythm, however, 45 minutes later Duncan was born at 1:08pm and with a set of lungs on him like nobody’s business!

Jamie did a fantastic job being there for me the entire time. I couldn’t have asked for a better job. He was very attentive, concerned, supportive, and encouraging. When I said I didn’t think I could do it (about towards the crowning part I was told) he said I could and I was doing great. I can truly see how you could fall in love with someone all over again after ten years of marriage, because I did that day.

As well as falling in love with someone who you carried inside of you for 9 months but just met.

This…is gorgeous. We are head over heels. Although it’s a lot of hard work, this kid is worth every minute of it and he’s only three days old!

Our family is perfect now! Oh, and Ruby has taken to Duncan like no other. No jealousy from her (so far). She worries when he cries and tries to get little licks in on his head, although we tell her to wait until he’s a bit older to start the licking, she still sneaks it in.

Tomorrow we will be officially due. Does this guy want to come out? Heck no. At my appointment yesterday I was told he was still pretty high up (which hello, I could have told them that!), my  cervix is still pretty high up and I’m only 1.5cm dilated. Oh well! I know that means nothing really as it can happen at anytime.

However, if he doesn’t decide to make an appearance on his own by next Tuesday, we’ll be going in for an induction. From the looks of it, that is what we’ll be looking to as I’m not contracting or anything.

I’d rather him come on his own but he is Jamie’s child and is going to be a lazy guy!

It does seem surreal that the due date is tomorrow though. It feels like just last month we were finding out the gender and the month before we found out we were pregnant! Absolutely crazy how time flies.

I’ve been relaxing and just being a blob for the past week as I worked my tail off to take a month off for the baby’s arrival and such. It’s been nice but quite boring. I have no clue what to do if I’m not working and that is kind of sad!

So anyway, here’s hoping that Duncan comes out on his own! Either way next week we will finally meet him!

Our doctor doesn’t like people to go over 41 weeks so if this guy doesn’t come on his own soon we’ll be getting induced. Am I happy about that? Hell no. I would definitely rather him come on his own because then it’ll give me more of a fighting chance to do it without an epidural. At the last appointment it showed I was only a centimeter dilated but my cervix was right there as he put it.  However, I do know that makes no difference whatsoever!

We did almost all the final cleaning in the room and tomorrow we’ll be doing the last load of laundry of his like the sheet and such to get it all clean and ready for this little guy to come and use it.

Jamie is getting super impatient waiting for Duncan to come. He asks about four or five times a day when I’m going to give him his kid! I’d love to! He’s going to come out when he’s good and ready though, or when they make him!

I do have to say though that I have had a fantastic pregnancy. It really couldn’t have gone better so far. The only real thing that was a problem was my blood pressure, however, it could have been high before. Since I didn’t go to the doctors before we’ll never know! Everything else has gone great. I’m afraid the labor will be horrible because everything in the pregnancy has gone so well.

I would like it to hurry up and come and we can meet him and come home so then the waiting is over and we can start being a little family! Which is freaking insane to think!

I started my “self made” maternity leave today. I’ll probably end up working though until he’s born after I get the major things done. There just isn’t much to do when I’m not working! I guess that’s something that sucks about working from home.

Have to clean off the bed and jump in the shower though. Maybe I’ll do some relaxing after that!

My doctor doesn’t let women go more than a couple days over their due dates until inducing them. On one hand that’s good because it means I won’t have to be overdue a long time but on the other hand I think it’s horrible since 40 weeks is only an estimated due date. Like I said to Jamie and my Mom, I’m sure in two weeks I’ll be totally fed up and looking forward to an induction.

In non-pregnancy things though, Jeremy had some Easter pictures taken. He was wearing a little suit and looked like a proper little man. They’re adorable. I can’t wait to see the prints either. I’ve only seen the pictures printed out on the paper (order form) as well as online. However, with the online ones they intentionally make them smaller and blurry so you can’t just snag them and make copies of them yourself. They have to try to get that $20 for a sheet of pictures out of you!

Speaking of Easter, it was a good one this year. I’m not really into Easter though. I think it’s quite worthless. Could have something to do with not being religious, who knows. Mom made corn and potato salad along with the ham for dinner. Oh man it was so delicious. For dessert she made a pineapple upside down cake that was every sweet tooth’s dream! I could have eaten the whole thing on my own for sure! The potato salad, oh geesh, it was absolutely heaven as well, and the ham was gorgeous and delicious, aside from the nasty ass cloves in it though! It was a great Easter dinner! Look at me, rave about food. Man…

There are 14 days until your due date on April 22, 2010.
You are 266 days pregnant.
You are 8.7 months pregnant.
You are in your 9th month of pregnancy.

Today we are officially at 35 weeks pregnant. A couple more days and it will be less than a month to our due date. We’ve got pretty much everything in order and the diaper bag that mom bought us came yesterday. It’s absolutely adorable! Better than the one I was planning on getting.

I’m going to have to take pictures of it soon. Jamie also picked out the whole coming home outfit and it’s so adorable! I can’t wait! Neither can anyone else!

Getting so close to the end and I was hoping that the blood pressure would have stayed level! However, whatever happens happens and we’ll just roll with the punches.

A tiny bit over three weeks and we’ll be considered full term. That is super excited. Full term on April Fool’s Day!

On unrelated news, the weather is finally getting warmer. We were in the 50s today and almost into 60! In fact, tomorrow is set to be 60. Of course there is rain coming with it but it is so nice not being freezing cold! I don’t mind winter but you just can’t beat the sunshine!

The finally got a vague one and he had his hand on his head with his knee up to his face. He’s head down too, yay! The doctor also said that he is still a boy, or a girl with testicles. Let’s hope he just has one gender though!

We have basically everything ready to go. I still need to pack a hospital bag for myself and the baby and Jamie is going to throw a change of clothes in my bag too. Only four more weeks until we’re full term so I guess I should really get on that!

I took my glucose test on my last appointment and you know, it wasn’t that bad. I had the fruit punch drink and it just tasted like Kool-Aid where someone was just a bit heavy handed with the sugar. Think little kids making Kool-Aid and you’ll know the taste! I won’t know the results until my next appointment I’m sure. However, I figured if there was a problem they would have probably called to have me come in. I don’t know how these things go, I’m just assuming!

At that appointment the midwife (whom I’ve had twice now and really like her, but now that I’ve said it I’ll get someone else next time!) checked the uterus size, by feeling and measuring. She said that I jumped from 22 weeks to 28 weeks in size. She also said with a growth spurt like that, if I hadn’t had an ultrasound and knew we were only having one baby they would have given me an ultrasound to look for twins. I thought that was funny.

Around Wednesday, my little brothers Dad was taken to the hospital with suspicions of a stroke or heart attack. He was talking gibberish, combative, and didn’t know who anyone was. Thankfully, it was not a stroke or anything but swelling of the brain from another condition that they found. Also, thankfully, he is back to normal and only has to spend six more days in the hospital so he is doing well. We figured that this was going to start out just another bad year like last year.

I suppose someone is really looking out for that man since five years ago he got sick and was in a coma for a long time. A lesson for all to take care of themselves and love live, it’s short definitely.

Even all that, since he’s doing well, so far this year hasn’t been horrible in the slightest. Still doing well except that one of our cars is acting up! Always something with our cars. The Suburban hates winters and developed a flat while Jamie and Trevor were out getting wood, we haven’t fixed it yet though, and the Olds has something going on with its breaks that Jamie has to look at tomorrow.

Like I said though, so far this year hasn’t been horrible. How can it when I have Duncan building forts in the womb and I’ve been able to actually see the movements for a couple weeks now. It’s fascinating. I’m also almost in third trimester in our pregnancy. Before we know it, I’ll be going into labor and Jamie and I will be making posts on our websites welcoming our little bundle.

I had a feeling it was going to be a girl the whole entire time, man was I wrong! Way wrong! That’s okay though because he is healthy and kicking away!

Everything else measured good as it did at the 19 week scan. They said he’s on the small/average side of sizing which is good. Cyst hasn’t grown any bigger at all. Another good thing!

Since everything is going well we won’t get another ultrasound for 8 weeks which will put us at 32 weeks! Ack! Can you imagine? This has just flown by!

So, there we have it! Come April (May if he’s stubborn!) and we are going to be welcoming Duncan to the family!

So, on the doctor’s appointments, everything is fine. My blood pressure is still high and I got put on medication for it. They did labs for preeclampsia but said they all came back fine and I don’t have signs of it. Of course, following it up with “Just because you don’t have it now, doesn’t mean it won’t show up later!” Hey, thanks man!

The baby is doing fine though. I’m feeling the tyke daily now so that’s a good feeling, although strange at the same time!

Everything is else is going well though. Nothing huge happening besides the upcoming holidays. First Christmas without gramps…that’s gonna suck.