38 weeks and a little bit of progress =)

Yesterday was a loooong semi nerve racking day for us! I woke up and noticed that my stomach had drastically dropped and I wasn't quite feeling myself. I got ready and headed to work anyways and when i got there I still felt really weird. I decided to call my doctors office and ask them about some symptoms I was having and to my shock they sent me to labor and delivery to be checked out. Bradley came and picked me up from work and we went and checked in at the hospital. They took me to an actual room (which shocked me bc i wasn't expecting it) and I hooked me to the fetal monitors. The baby was fine and the nurse did an alkaline test to check to see if my water had actually broken, it hadn't but they still kept me for about 20 more minuets just to observe the baby. The whole time I was in bed I had about 6 contractions, but I didn't feel them at all so they released me and told me to eat lunch and go see my doctor at 3 o'clock, which was my appointment time anyways. I ended up going back to work for a little while and left at 2:30 to go see Dr. Joe. In the hospital, when the nurse checked me, I still had made no progress so we were a little upset with that! BUT when my doctor checked me I was 20% effaced, but still no dilatation. He told us that if I still had not dilated any by next Tuesday we would talk about possibly inducing so I don't have to go over my due date. Of course my doctor is going on vacation next week.....so I will see another doctor about the induction. I am a little nervous about that, but as long as I get Anderson here safely that is all i care about.

Going into the hospital and getting in the gown and getting hooked up to all those monitors was such a surreal moment. I just kept thinking that today may be the day I have my son....I was terrified and excited at the same time. I guess what really got to me was when I was still in the bed talking with the nurse about my release and the anesthesiologist walked in and said, "Mrs. Sartain I'm here to talk to you about your epidural".....the nurse had to tell him that I was being released and he just laughed and said, "O ok well you won't need one today then." I have 11 days (more or less) until my little man is due and we are on pins and needles just waiting for something to happen!!!! So I go back to the doctor next Tuesday morning and hopefully i have had some progress or we talk about inducing!!!!