40 weeks and counting

Well, one day to the due date, so not entirely sure weeks, but we are almost there. We met with Dr. Ross this morning, after a weekend of some spicy foods (tacos with spicy beef and fish, probably gave me more heartburn than anything else), walking (went to Canal Place, walked indoors, did get Mark a new work suit, and rode an elevator!), and some contraction training (holding the ice for 90 minutes), we found out that the baby is lower and I am a wee bit (emphasize wee bit) dilated, we think its like 1/2 cm so it's progress. Dr. Ross did have a harder time finding the heartbeat (once she did all was fine), its the location of the baby, as she did drop some. But we discussed options, and Dr. Ross went ahead and scheduled us for an induction, 6AM Saturday Morning, she's on call this weekend, so that's a relief (apparently its Constitution Day in S. Korea, and it's also David Hasselhoff's birthday!). And she said she's superstitious, she'd rather schedule one, and then hopes to see us before then. If that doesn't work, we go back to her Friday, she'll check me again, and we will discuss how I will be induced, we're hoping, her words, that my cervix will be favorable. So we'll see. But have been feeling more contractions, or at least crampiness, though they are irregular and don't last for too long.

It's nice to have an end date, to feel like there's some sort of semblance of control, knowing full well that there's really not, but at least it provides the illusion of some. It seems I do really well during the day, staying positive and believing that I can do this, and then by the nighttime, tiredness sets in, and my mood changes, and that's when I allow the monkey chatter in. It's been difficult dealing with the monkey chatter, at least in the past couple of days, but we're battling it, remembering that we will do this and get through it, it's just a scary, scary, unknown. But that's life.

So trying to rest more during the day, to stop the monkey chatter from occuring. I'm toying with making this my last day at work, and taking vacation for the rest of the week until I would start my leave. But then again it is nice to be busy and have work to keep me occupied, I am just finding my mind isn't into it. So we'll see. I did download the 1st season of Modern Family Saturday, and we watched the pilot last night, and both Mark and I were crying we were laughing so hard. Such a funny show - and I've still got my Top Chef Season 2, 10 more episodes, and a couple of books to keep me occupied, so we'll see.

And we finished the Senator's room yesterday. So we filmed us taking a tour of it, so check out on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/13254181 ). Will keep you posted.