Reaching my Due Date!
Well tomorrow is my due date! I know due dates are just an estimation, but it feels like a great milestone to me. I'm so excited! The nerves are starting to calm, and I'm just so happy that she'll actually be here soon!  I don't expect labor to be painless or completely as we plan it, but I know that it's the process that leads to her coming in to the world and that makes it all worth it in the end. So here's the BIG NEWS! I have a date set up to be induced... This Friday, May 9th! So if she doesn't come on her due date then she will be coming the day after. I'm so excited. I've heard so many different labor stories about letting it happen naturally and inducing, and you know every woman is going to respond differently every time. Some said their inductions were great, some said they were so long and they didn't dialate so it was aweful. Others have said that their natural occurring labors were too short or too long. So who knows what to expect? I guess I will see what happens with me. Hopefully everything will go smoothly. I guess my biggest fears are that I won't dialate and it will take a long time before I can get an epidural. Or that they'll break my water and the pains will come on so strong and fast. I just hope after all this that I don't end up having to have a c-section. I've heard sometimes that happens even after laboring for a long period of time. But whatever happens happens and it'll be okay in the end. I'm just so very excited! And it has taken a lot of my anxiety away just knowing that this date is set up. I think deep down I thought it would be so long before she would come on her own. I didn't want to wait any longer than I already had. So that's the update on what's going on. I'm going in at 7am and I guess we'll get things started then. Be ready to see pictures and hear all about the labor and delivery experience when I get a chance to get back on the computer. So here's to my last journal entry as a mom-to-be. Next time I write I'll be a mommy! |
