My unwritten birth plan was to have a water birth, which meant no pain medications.  That was about it.  I wanted DH to cut the umbilical cord after the placenta finished pulsing.  That was the extent of our plans.

At midnight on May 1, I woke up to a loud popping noise coming from down below.  I managed to get into the bathroom and saw that my ( Read more... )

I'm still pregnant., which in spite of my belief that I would go early, is to be expected.  I'm not disappointed or upset.  I'm still staying at my mother's house, but I may be able to move back here tonight.  The house is still a mess, but the dust should be pretty much gone.  DH has been working his butt off all week and all weekend to get it ( Read more... )

I have been given permission to have the baby at any time now.......everything is looking good.

Today is my last day at work before my maternity leave.  I'm still having the "false" labor contractions but at least today they're being fairly consistent.  Usually, they disappear while I'm at work, which has been a good thing actually as I had a lot of things I needed to focus on.  Or maybe they didn't disappear and I just wasn't paying ( Read more... )

Not much news lately.  I've been a bit more productive at work as I try to tie up loose ends before my maternity leave.  My last day in the office is tomorrow--and I'll probably be here.  I've been having some "false" contractions and some that don't feel as false, but they don't come consistently so there's no need to get all excited ( Read more... )

Not much new going on here.  DH is at home painting the office and removing hazardous things from the kitchen.  I woke up this morning with some false contractions--and I'm having them again right now.  I haven't been bothered by them at all throughout the day, so it's nothing to make any calls for.  As a matter of fact, I'm feeling really good ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in the past couple of days because I haven't been able to.  Wednesday at work was spent focusing on our financial software issues and responding to requests from the auditors.  Fortunately, our financial software was repaired and has been working ever since.  That evening my dad came over to eFile his tax return and like the good ( Read more... )

The fun with the database vendor continues.  Another group had a technical glitch and during the resolution of the glitch we found a larger problem.  And another small problem.  My coworker says that the product seems to be crumbling around us.  Does it make sense that when you are trying to find records that fall on a certain date, say 3/28/2007, ( Read more... )

So far the most interesting thing today is that I wound up calling the midwive's line and then going into the clinic because I was experiencing some of the symptoms of pre-term labor.  Not all of them, but enough for me to decide it was worth a phone call.  The good news is that everything with the baby is fine and there's nothing to worry about on ( Read more... )

We had our "Preparing for Birth" classes this weekend.  On Friday night, I was having second thoughts of letting DH anywhere near me during labor/delivery.  I thought that he wasn't paying attention during the class.  Turns out, he couldn't hear anything and didn't feel that telling anyone would make a difference.  He also "joked" that my number ( Read more... )