A picture of the most beautiful little baby in the world! This is Madeline, born 11/16/06 at 3:04am!!!

Pregnant Pause?

Well, mother nature is napping I guess. Baby Madeline is healthy and happy as hell tearing it up inside my belly. The ultrasound and stress test last week all showed perfect insides and all that "neat" stuff and today I had another baby stress test and she is still quite content where she's at. I'm finally scheduled for induction this Wednesday morning at 7:30. Maybe I'll get lucky and these contractions I've been continuing to have will develop into full-blown labor before then, rather than just practice labor. Today I was dilated to between 2-3 cm and baby's head is still down where it should be.

I'm very scared now and wish I could rethink this whole deal.

Brief update on yesterday's appointment: everything looks fantastic and baby is super duper low, all I have to do is go into labor and she'll come out (I hope it's THAT simple!). The midwife was able to touch Maddy's head with no problem when she examined me (freaky!).

If I don't have her by beginning of next week I have to go in for another ultrasound and stress test for baby and determine from there what happens next. If the placenta has begun to deteriorate then it will require induction or possible c-section. If not, we may be able to wait on mother nature a little while longer.

I'll be honest and say that I'm not the best at this waiting game, especially when I'm not working during the day. Pray for us!

We are at my uncle's doing some updating to Justin's laptop and throwing some photos in an album Justin created. Let's give this a shot!