Finally September!!!

Seems like September would never get here! And now it seems like cooler weather will never get here...

Nine days 'til Bella turns 4. Thirteen days 'til my scheduled C section. Two days 'til the predicted arrival of Baby Mark.

I'm leaning toward the 2 day window after the week I've had. I've had contractions all week again, but none that were bad enough to call it a go until yesterday. I was napping with Bella and I woke up out of a dead sleep to the worst pain ever. I couldn't even get out of bed, and when I did, I woke up Bellini. I sat on the sofa for the next hour with Bella bringing me glass after glass of water and cuddling with me. I called Mom to pick up Bella and told Mark to get his ass home from work.

Finally, it was time to go to the hospital. I got there around 5 with contractions every 3 minutes that hurt like hell in my back and legs. They decided not to stop them since I was so close to being full term. Today I'm 37 weeks. Instead, they gave me an IV of sugar water basically, which stopped the contractions for the most part. But, after a second IV to hydrate me, the contractions came back and were painful again. The shitty part of it all was that my cervix wasn't changing. But, I was definitely having labor contractions. Next step was to give me morphine and either admit me for the night or send me home. I opted to go home since the morphine made me feel pretty damn good.

Of course, I couldn't sleep worth a damn last night and the contractions have not stopped, but at least I'm not in pain today. It's time to wait it out. Oh man, that's the worst part of everything. Waiting. I might make a run to the "used bread store" with my mom and then start cleaning house a little at a time. I think I need to get off my ass and make gravity work on some cervical changes. If these contractions start doing a better job, we have a good change of seeing Baby Mark by Sunday.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. I really don't want to go to the 15th in labor. Life would suck. I had contractions for 10 days with Bella before my water broke and very vividly recall being in misery. I'm not willing to accompany much more misery these days. I'm ready for baby and I think everyone else is too. Right?