I had an ob appointment today. Based on the cramping and contractions I've had over the last week I had great expectations for today's appointment. Realistically I haven't had that much cramping and my contractions aren't that bad or that consistent, but I believe in rose colored glasses. As I waltzed into the examining room I just knew that Dr. Cole was going to say, "Oh my you're 5cm dilated and 80% effaced...time to go have this baby," and send me to the hospital.
Instead I peed in my cup (it makes me nervous when the nurse has to look at the test kit bottle to check the colors on my test strip....not enough to ask her what she's doing mind you, but just enough to wonder about), got weighed (no gain from last week), and blood pressure (100/62) and got into the examining room.
Dr. Cole came in and measured my belly and started feeling the baby all the while exclaiming, "Wow she's so big. She just takes up your whole belly. She's just everywhere in there." And Emma is head down, butt up (isn't that a line from a dirty rap song?).
And then came the moment of truth...internal exam. Drum roll please. Cervix is thin, not dilated at all. Are you friggin kidding me????? Where's my 5cm and my 80%? Why am I not on the way to the hospital?
Dr. Cole then dashed all my hopes by saying, "All this time we worried you'd deliver early and now you'll probably go past your due date."
Apparently despite doing my hair and make up, too, I look exhausted because Dr. Cole asked, "Are you tired?" Um, that would be a big fat yes. She told me I needed to start walking the mall. After almost 5 months of sitting on my ass all day and now I'm gonna go walk the mall. I don't even think I could reach my feet to tie my tennis shoes, but I'll give it a whirl.
So, tonight we went and had Mexican food and afterwards we stopped at Lowe's. I walked from the door to the lumber section and wanted to lay down and take a nap in the store. Paul did his best to get me to take a lap around the store, but it just wasn't happening for me tonight.
In other not so exciting news we found out yesterday that Paul is going to deploy. He has to be in Kuwait by July 6th and hopefully we'll know next week if he's going to Iraq or Afghanistan or someplace else. So, in addition to getting ready to have a new baby, repair all the damage to our house caused by snow we now have to prepare for his deployment. The next few months will be busy and life changing and beyond stressful for sure. Luckily I still can focus on how blessed we are.
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