Yep, I called/cried ..you name it wolf….

So after a few days of feeling like things were coming soon, having all the impending labor signs - .Monday the contractions got to a point where I was timing them.

They lasted 2 hours easily 5 mins. apart but weren’t necessarily the most painful. Around 8:30 I figured they were easing up so I took my unisom and headed to bed. At 11:15 I woke up to major contractions & pain so went to the bathroom and then tried to sleep them back off thinking they couldn’t be strong enough at first. Well they got worse and I gave in, woke up DH and called L&D. They told me to come on in and get hooked up to see if we were in active labor.

When I got there I was consistently having them every 5 minutes and increasing in pain, checked me and I was at 3cm but close to 4cm (I was at 2cm @ 36 weeks/2 weeks ago). She told me to walk around a bit and they’d check me in 2 hours. Well after an hour and 1/2 of walking the halls, stopping when the contractions came because they were definitely noticeable and hurting..I gave up walking and just wanted to lay down a bit. I got hooked back up on the monitor and yep they were 3-4 mins. apart increasing in pain. She checked me again @ 2:30 and NO PROGRESS WTF!!!

She called my midwife back and I was given 3 options 1) go home with a mild pain killer to try and sleep but come back if it got worse. 2) walk/lay in L&D for another 2 hours to see if things got stronger 3) get morphine to let me do “tranquil therapy” basically, see if my body could rest and maybe it’d kick into full blown labor. Well, considering how quick my active labor was with my 1st DS, we decided I’d stay at the hospital and try the morphine then she’d check me at 7:30 to see where we were.

7:30 rolls around and no progress…I’m frustrated, tired and sore from all the internals. (I have a very hard to reach uterus so every one was painful!) I get sent home to rest and it’s a waiting game. If I was 1 week further they could’ve broke my water or started pitocin but nope….I’m just under the bubble. (today I hit 38 weeks and would be in the clear most likely for them to “augment’/break my water/start pitocin if it happens again)

I’m so done and ready for this all to be over. I went back to work on Wed., continuing to work this week away and have been just doing the good ol’ waiting game. I get a feeling things are happening then bam…it all stops again.

This baby is seriously testing my patience before he comes into the world and boy is he a stubborn one already…or maybe it’s just my body being a pain in the arse!

The thing is - my contractions were more painful this time and looking great on the monitors/timing close together but my body just wasn’t progressing yet. I had stronger contractions then I remember from being induced with my 1st so I thought for sure we were good to go…boy did I feel like the pregnant woman calling wolf!

So, on Tuesday I had the start of my weekly appointments with my midwife. We decided to have her check me to see if some of the contractions I’ve had on/off are doing any progress. Well, sure enough I’m at least 2cm dilated. It wasn’t the most pleasant thing to go through (the exam process that is) but I’m glad to know that there is progress there from the uncomfortable feelings I’ve been having! For the last few days I’ve felt worse, crampy, uncomfy and overall having problems moving. I know part is the exam and part of it is the stage of pregnancy I’m in. My “official” due date is of course May 1st but anytime here on forward is a-ok as far as she’s concerned and we really don’t think I’ll make it to May 1st anyhow but we’ll see.
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So, we have a new car, a 2008 Buick Enclave that was picked up last Wed. I’m in love and it’s the perfect non-minivan family car for us!
(pic thumbnailed below so you can click on it to see more pics of it)

While doing the deal with the sales guy and setting up the turn in for our Mazda 6 we mentioned how we had some damage done to the car that needed fixed before turn in and how we wanted to get it cleaned/detailed etc. He said it shouldn’t be a problem to get taken care of and that they wanted to make things as easy on us as possible. Well, when Patrick took the Mazda in, they looked at the damage done to the car. (I’ll explain the damage in a second) and said that it would need to be something his body shop guys would look at and we may have to pay some for it because it was more then he expected. We got the call yesterday with the estimate - $1200!!!!!!!

Basically, a dog chewed up my car. He chewed up the paneling around all 4 sets of wheels, around my exhaust pipes on the back and around the front bumper. Now, can you believe a little dog did $1200 worth of damage to my car? Here’s the funny part - I got backed into by a pickup truck at a stop sign (about 6 months ago, this guy pulled too far out into the intersection and then decided to throw his truck in reverse and smashed into me). The damage done by this truck backing into me was about $100. A dog can do $1200 worth of damage but a truck can do $100. It baffles me and upsets me.

So here I am yesterday upset because we have all this stuff to buy for baby to come. (Breast pump $230, Sling so I can hands free nurse while having kiddo run around me $90, new bras, stuff for after the baby is born for recovering and really the list could go on a bit. I have an Excel Spreadsheet with everything itemized, expenses listed and totaled. I’ve been marking off things as we’ve slowly got them.) I’m 33 weeks along now and we are hoping I’ll keep him cooking until 37-38, if not longer! I went on bedrest with Braysen last time and In the back of my head I’m hoping it doesn’t happen again but 3 weeks from now is about the timing of when that happened the 1st time. I DO NOT want to send Patrick off shopping for things like oh nursing bras and random other embarrassing items. These are things that I need to go out and get by myself but they are not quick close shops, they involve driving 45 minutes into actual shopping areas. I’m getting to the point where spending hours in the car and shopping just makes me feel miserable so I don’t really want to keep putting things off. I called up my parents upset just needing to cry and let things out. I don’t cry very often to them, I don’t cry very often period but damn these pregnancy hormones!

I’m stressed about the “list” of things I have to do. Our nursery is basically painted but has nothing done in it. I really was looking forward to doing an actual nursery this time before he arrives because last pregnancy I didn’t get to do the nursery until Braysen was nearly 6 months old due to the move up here and our transition to the new house. I feel like I missed out on that part of the pregnancy fun. This time I can’t even dive in and go buy the fun stuff for his nursery that I had envisioned. I’m stressed about the $$ we have going out. I’m trying to not stress because that will only increase the chances of the whole bed rest/blood pressure scenarios but it’s not easy.

On top, I’m trying to start planning a 2nd birthday party (small get together) for Braysen who’s bday is on Easter but I’m looking to have it the weekend after since Easter weekend is going to be pretty busy. Our neighborhood has an Easter Egg hunt going house to house on that Sat. which was the day I thought of having a party.

Then in April, Patrick turns the big 30 - which I want to make sure he has a good celebration of sorts, even if he doesn’t want me to do anything big for him. I’ve got that in the works (can’t say more about it!)

*tries to relax*

We have had sun out which means kiddo gets to enjoy the outdoors finally!

Too tired to sit at the computer much longer to actually type up something meaningful. Although, we did have a brief contraction scare last Friday but I’m fine and little Merrick is healthy and happy staying in me.

Anyhow, enjoy this pic from our park visit on Sunday. Isn’t he getting big?

This is a thumbnailed image to the new nursery paint progress. If you click on it, it’ll take you to the album with more pics the nursery and pics of the rest of the painting / decorating we’ve done in the house.

We still have lots of work to do both in the nursery and down the line, in the house. We get Braysen’s big boy bed this next week so that will be an interesting transition for all of us!

Going to keep this short and simple since I’m a bit tired and am on the Mac Powerbook instead of my desktop. I prefer to post from my own computer and use a mouse instead of a touchpad

I’m so overwhelmed with the amount of things I have yet to buy before this baby makes its grand entrance! We are heading into Babies R Us this weekend to hopefully get a few things off my list while I have coupons. I’m also trying to get through each day at work, although lately I’ve been spending my entire time there on my feet which has shown with the lack of ankles showing by the end of it! *sighs*

Well ~ kiddo seems to love my laptop (he keeps pointing to the “tick tock” on the screen and is practically attacking me trying to get to it. In fear of this getting deleted with him climbing, I’ll end my ramblings!