January 23rd?

I went in for my 36 week appt and to my surprise I am already dilated to a 2 and 80% effaced. In my group of OB doctors there is one in particular that has "bigger hands" haha as awful as that sounds and not that I have ever checked this out for myself but the labor and delivery nurses told me when I had Blakely. They would say, "if we say you are a 4, he will probably say you are a 2 if he is the doctor on call. If it is the other doctors you will be a 4." It was kind of a joke but I noticed through out my appointments last time that this was true. They other doctors would tell me that I was almost a 3 and he would say I was a 1. It was a little discouraging. However, this time not so much. The doctor with the "bigger hands" (hahaha I laugh everytime, so awful) is the one who checked my cervix.

I was sitting there half naked having small talk with doctor (not while he was checking me, before.) I was amazed at how he remembered so much about all of my complications with Blakely. Yes, I will brag up my OB doc's, they are awesome and very personable. As we are talking about this, he asks me when I delivered Blakely in relevance to my due date, I said I went into labor on my due date and had her the next day. He listens to the babies heart beat and measures me. He then checked my cervix and said, "Wow! She is really low." I replied, "yes, I have been thinking that myself." Then he nailed me with it... "You are dilated to a 2 and 80% effaced." My face must have said it all!!! I didn't know what to think. He actually started laughing and said, "much different then your first, huh." I still couldn't even really reply. SO many thoughts were rushing through my head since I have been having these crazy dreams that she comes so early and so many things get forgotten like getting out my breast pump and it gives me so much anxiety, I wake up in sweats and re-do my to-do lists and rethink my deadlines for things to be done. Not that if she did come today, obviously she wont but, it would not be as big of a deal as I make it out to be. All the baby stuff is out, cleaned, and ready to go beside the breast pump and car seat in the car. I am just a huge stress case and need things to be in order and every nook and cranny to be sanitized, bags packed, and our now entire crazy house hold of toys that Blakely got for Christmas to be sanitized, organized, and put away. A normal person could do this in a day but I am so overly freak about it all that I go insanely overboard with it. Anyway... I finally after a long delay I responded, "yeah!" haha he was probably like, Hello?

The doctor then proceeded to talk to me about the position of the baby and said, "Because you are a 2 and 80 right now we could induce you a week prior to your due date." Then this is what got me, "if you haven't already gone." SAY WHAT?  I asked, "so you think I will have this baby early?" He said there is a chance you could stay 2 and 80 and still go passed your due date if we let you, I really don't think that will be the case though because of the position of the baby. Every pregnancy is different and that is something we can't really predict (obviously)" I then through out my 20 worries. Its winter, driving in a snow storm? My family all has colds? What about jaundice? And the list went on, he eased my worries with great answers, things other people had already told me for the most part but it felt much better coming from my doctor. I decided to go ahead and schedule my induction on the 23rd. My biggest reasons are Blakely and weather. It will make it much easier to prepare with Blakely and get her off to my mom. Also a better chance I can accommodate the weather, good or bad. Not to mention with Wiggy Wash's Springville location recently opening, Brad is running the site 100%  right now with little but much appreciated assistance. Now he can plan with his dad and brother and it will make life much easier on him. Less stress? Sure, why not!

The best part about all of this is for the last month I have been telling Brad that in my crazy dreams, the doctor tells me at my 36 weeks appt. that I am 2 and 80. He joked back and said that wont happen. I would laugh and say, "yeah, you're right." Well I tried calling him and he didn't answer so I decided to shoot him a text saying, "I am dilated to a 2 and 80% effaced. Want to have this baby on the 23rd?"  A few minutes later I got a phone call from him saying, "Is this some kind of joke? I am really stressed right now so if it is, it's not funny!" haha! Wow! Hello sweetheart... I laughed and told him that it wasn't a joke and explained everything. Then said ready or not 19 days is the most we have left. He came home and was way more excited and really surprised that it really happened.

So here we are now today with 18 days left. So excited! So worried about Blakely transitioning! Feeling so not ready, yet, so ready all at the same time! I am not ready to be so exhausted again but this time I will make sure I sleep more then 8 hours the first week we have her and actually get some sleep in the hospital.

So everyone who took a guess at the date, weight, and height for Bailey's scrapbook, you are all out on your dates besides Shari who thinks it will be January 21st.