Come and gone

My due date, that is.

We went to the doc's office again today as scheduled, since Jensen didn't seem to want to come out before the appointment. :)

He did another internal exam, and I am a whopping "fingertip" dilated (apparently this translates to "just barely") and 60% effaced.

We had a long conversation about inducement, with the deciding compromise to be that if Baby J has not appeared in the outside world by the end of the weekend, we'll go the hospital on Monday for another sonogram and then have another discussion based on those results. He is still convinced that I'm diabetic and says he is concerned that the baby will get too big to deliver without a C-section.

So, we did what we thought was normal after hearing this news...we went to the health food store and got some Red Raspberry Leaf Tea, which, depending on what you read, will help "tone the uterus" and help it to "contract more effectively." Hhhmmm. Honestly, I dunno, but raspberry tea sounds a helluva lot better than pitocin!

We purposely parked a long way from the store, so getting there and back was a pretty long walk. Then, to relax, we went to see a movie (The Heartbreak Kid---not fantastic, sorry) and then to a really beautiful Italian dinner at a new place near the theatre called Cinema Paradiso.

We're back at home now, and Michael has agreed to give me a hypno-massage to get me in the mood to have a baby. I've been having BH contractions for several hours straight, so there's at least a chance that at some point they'll start helping me "progress" and we'll have to start thinking about going to the hospital.

If you're reading this, think productive thoughts for us, please!!