OK....
1. Pedi: Check (My only sense of dignity while admitted to labor and delivery)
2. Wax: Check (Last go around I did not have the opportunity to get this done and I was sooo embarrassed when I walked into the hospital. I vowed to never let that happen again. But, wow...My skin is bruised! Pregnancy must make the skin more sensitive.)
3. Baby Clothes Washed and Laundered: Check
4. Diapers: Check....Finally!
5. Hospital Bag: Not yet...But, I am in the process. My good friend did get me started.
6. Husband: CHECK! He is ready to go!
BUT....
NO BABY!
Castor oil is the only thing I will not do. I was thinking about it....But, my OB said there was a link with mothers who take castor oil for induction and babies having their first bowl movements in the womb...So is not worth the risk for me. Braxton had some respiratory issues when he was born because of the meconium and I would feel awful if that happened again and knew I may have had something to do with it.
I am all about waiting for the baby to come on its own......But, this go around, I am going to get a little antsi if the baby does not come by Monday. I need to have this baby on time. Any other pregnancy I could careless how late the baby was....But this pregnancy is totally different. I am under a huge time crunch.
The doctor stripped my membrane....But we're holding off on the induction because I am hardly effaced....So an induction on Thursday would be setting me up for failure....And I must avoid a C Section at all cost.
May I add....I WILL NEVER HAVE MY MEMBRANE STRIPPED AGAIN!!!!!! ITS SOOO NOT WORTH IT! The procedure obviously did not work and I feel like a sword was circled around in my vag. I am still in pain.
As for every other method of self induction.....Lets just say, I am still preggo, so enough said.
Everyone is suffering in my house.
1. My poor husband is getting raped three times a day.
2. My dog is so tired of walks that he runs when I get the leash.
3. My kids are tired of me using the bounce ball as my new chair.
4. My nipples cannot stand anymore stimulation.
5. My body is not handling the spicy food.
6. I have whipped out all the pineapple in produce section.
So, I have just come to the realization that the baby will not come until its ready....With or without my husband. Poor guy.
