It's almost time!

It's 7:15 a.m. in Bellingham, and here's where we are: At 5:30 a.m., after a night of consistent labor, the doctor
broke the "membranes," and Jill's labor sped up. As of now, birth looking like it will occur in the very near future!

Admitted

Welp, Jill was having contractions all day so we decided at 8pm to make our way to the hospital for some medicine to help her sleep.  We arrived at St. Joes and after her first checkup, they had us walk around the hospital for an hour.  When we returned back from our walk, the dr decided Jill had progressed enough to admit us.  It is midnight April 11th/12th now.  Jill is contracting at about 2 mins each contraction, and must have a high pain tolerance.  Ill update the blog, once the lil man is born. Thanks again to all the love and support!!!

40 weeks, 3 days

I forgot to update this page this morning -- my mom is now in town so we've been doing some things.  I haven't had the baby, yet!  I've definitely begun the early stages of labor: lower back pain, hightened pressure in my abdomen, etc.  Basically, I feel like the baby could fall out any day now :)  BUT -- I haven't had any real, consistent contractions and those are what I'm waiting for.  It'd be nice if my water broke but did you know only 1 in 10 women experience that before they start contractions?  The movies are so misleading!

Contractions?

So, this is perfect timing.  Michael went to Fire Academy this morning and as soon as he left I started feeling a little uncomfortable.  That uncomfortable feeling has turned into slight contractions (I think).  I have no idea if they're the real deal but I do know it's not the best feeling in the world.  So far they're not close together or painful.  We'll keep updating!  :)

40 Weeks, 1 day

WARNING: This update may be too much information for you so proceed at your own risk :)

I woke up this morning and ... lost my mucus plug.  If you don't know what that is, you can google it but try to avoid looking at the pictures that pop up.  They're gross (I guess you could probably figure that out by the name). 

This is a good sign!  :)

Another update

I am officially 90% effaced and my doctor doesn't think I will make it another few days without having the baby.  We'll see if she's right!  She stripped my membranes so I guess that's a natural way of speeding the process up.  It was PAINFUL!  She left the room saying, "Maybe I'll see you tonight".  I hope so!

Today is our due date!

Today is the official due date!  I know that means nothing but it's still crazy that I've been waiting for this specific day for almost 9 months!  I actually had my first really uncomfortable sleep last night.  Maybe that's a good sign! 

I've got an appt. today so I'll make another entry when I get back to fill you all in!