I saw my ob on Friday and she said I was 1cm dilated. Now I know I could be 1cm dilated for weeks with nothing more happening, but at least something has started happening. She also said she was the on-call doctor this weekend so I should try to go into labor. Sure, let me get right on that. I asked her about drinking raspberry tea because I had heard about it from other people. She said she didn’t know how effective that was, but she suggested having sex, eating Chinese food, eating eggplant parmesan, and mopping the kitchen floor. So we tried…
Sex—I won’t go into all the details (I know you’re probably thankful for that), but you know how couples who are desperate to conceive will focus all their sexual encounters on doing it at the right time, right temp, right moment to achieve fertilization. Well, we are the exact opposite. We want this baby to be born! So, any thoughts of romance have flown right out the window although we do laugh hysterically because what else are you gonna do when you have a manatee, who can barely get in and out of bed on her own, flopping around on top of you. Sexy I am not. Luckily hubby has a good sense of humor.
Chinese food—We went out for Chinese buffet last night. I wasn’t given any direction as to what kind of Chinese food induces labor so I stuck with my standard sweet &sour chicken, fried rice, noodles, and 10,000 fat grams worth of crab Rangoon. Oh, and I had some hot tea.
Raspberry tea—I had 2 cups of this deliciousness last night. I don’t usually like anything other than the standard Earl Grey or English Breakfast or Lipton because I also enjoy adding milk and sugar to my tea (which apparently is an English thing because someone on a cruise once asked me if I was from England because of this—yes, don’t I sound British?), but I have to say the raspberry tea is pretty tasty.
Update: Still enjoying the raspberry tea.
Eggplant parmesan—Today we are headed off to lunch at the Olive Garden. We live in a city that has amazing Italian restaurants and we are going to Olive Garden. Haha Although I will say that a lot of the ladies on babycenter.com cited Olive Garden when having this eggplant parmesan debate. And if I still haven’t gone into labor this evening then we are headed to Buca De Beppo for dinner and chicken parmigian (because I did hear it was more about the oregano and basil than the eggplant). Hubby loves my love of chain restaurants.
Update: I enjoyed my eggplant at the OG, but have not yet gone into labor. We are staying home tonight because of the freezing rain that is coming down. Plus I took a nap this afternoon and lost all motivation to do anything. We ended up having steak, French fries, and sugar snap peas. Yum!
Walking—Last night after dinner we walked around Home Goods and the Paper Store. I’ll tell you what I can drag out some walking. Those aren’t even huge stores and we were in each other for 30 minutes. Today we are going to Costco…okay, that is a huge store and we might need some stuff (I don’t know what, but we might find something we like).
Update: We did in fact buy lots of things at Costco and walked around the entire store. Costco motivates me to walk because it’s like being at a buffet. 1200 calories later and we were ready to check out. We even got one of those there Flip camcorders so I can record little Em while her daddy is deployed and send him videos. Tonight’s dinner—Costco ribeyes. Even though I watched an Oprah on veganism the other day that made me cry when they showed how they slaughtered the cows apparently it didn’t upset me enough to not eat cows. Plus there was a lady there selling something from David’s Cookies. You should google this deliciousness cause you can order it online. Plus you could taste whatever cake/pie you wanted and boy did I ever want! We decided to go with the chocolate chip cookie pie. I have 2 slices defrosting now. Yummo!
Cracker Barrel—Someone I went to high school went into labor with both her children after big meals at the Cracker Barrel. Weirdly enough I had Cracker Barrel for lunch yesterday without even knowing that.
Mopping the floor—I don’t think I own a mop. I might be able to rustle up a swiffer. If all else falls I’ll vacuum the basement with the 200lb Kirby hubby insists we own. Basement is the only area in our house that is carpeted.
Update: It’s Monday morning. I’m exhausted because I ran out of Nexium and only took 20mg on Saturday and 20mg on Sunday instead of my usual 40mg per day and as a result had terrible acid reflux last night. It could have been all the crap delicious Super Bowl foods I ate last night, too. Ugh! I may bust out the vacuum today though although I wouldn’t hold your breath on that one.
Exercise ball—I found and inflated my exercise ball today. I think I bought this thing 2 years ago and have never taken it out of the box (whence the dust covering the box despite the box being moved across the country), but look how handy it’s coming in. After blowing up using a very suggestive appearing inflater thingy (and then re-inflating it after I had sat on it because I’m such a fatty) I’ve been a-rocking and a-rolling. So far not even a twinge, not a flutter, nary a contraction in sight.
So, it’s Monday morning. I’ve had 2 contractions, brief periods of cramping (nothing different than what’s been going on the last 2 weeks). Emma loved the Super Bowl and moved all day yesterday. Neither of her parents like change once we're settled so maybe she’s just decided she isn’t ready to come out. I’m heading towards being induced. I just know it! Oh, the irony!
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