9 days and counting

Hello Everyone!

Merry Christmas. Well I had my weekly appt yesterday morning at 8am. The nurse did the normal....weighed me & had me pee in a cup. I always seem to have a little sugar in my urine but yesterday she took my urine to the lab in the office. (Sorry if this is too much information.) She said I had alot of stuff in there....whatever that means. I told her that my parents had just gotten in from New York about 6:30am and brought cookies from the bakery, rainbow cookies, which are my favorite and that I had 3 of them this morning. I guess things weren't bad because they didn't say anymore about it.

So then I went into the room with the other nurse who listened to Hailey's (Hail-ee) heartbeat. It was about 150, which is high for her but normal. Again, the 3 rainbow cookies I had a few hours prior and the small cup of regular coffee I had probably contributed. Dr. Stevenson came in to see me and said that everything looked good. He informed me that they won't check to see how many centimeters that I am because it really doesn't change anything at this point. He informed me that years ago, research showed that the more a patient was checked the more susceptible they were to infections and their water breaking before they were ready.

While I was there, I asked him how long they would let me go past my due date. He told me that if I am 4 or 5 days past my due date that they will start talking about inducing me around day 7. That was good to know that they are not going to let me go 2 weeks past my due date...I can't imagine lasting 23 more days.....Whewwww!!! It's not that I am having a very hard time but I am not sleeping. Right now it is 3:20am and I am wide awake sitting on the couch with the computer in hand and watching Law and Order......as Mollie sleeps on the couch next to me.