Update on Baby

Well, I had my latest check up at the doctor's yesterday. I technically have 9 days to go until my due date and I am 90-100% effaced and the baby's head is at a zero station. However, I am only dilated to 1 & 1/2 centimeters. Apparently, that is the only thing keeping me from labor right now.

Dr. Parker really freaked me out last Tuesday (Dec. 23rd) when he told me I was 90% effaced and that the baby had dropped. He told me I should go right to the hospital and get pre-registered and that the baby could come any day. I told him, "Doctor, I can't have this baby early!" He simply said "Well, I suggest you adjust your expectations." (I was really freaked out because I had progressed so quickly from being a zero with 0% effaced on Friday, 12/12 to 90% and 1 & 1/2 centimeters on Tues, 12/23).

(The reason I can't go early is because I am waiting on two sales to close at work before I go out on leave, and if I don't get the POs before the baby comes, I will lose my sales commission. :-) The minute the baby is born, maternity leave starts).

So, thanks to Doctor Parker (bless his heart) I have spent the past week panicking and waking up in cold sweats in the middle of the night and fearing I was going into labor at the slightest sign of any pain. Monday night I had nightmares that I missed the birth of my own baby (apparently, I was in the other room..?) and hoards of people I barely knew were lining up to be in the delivery room to watch the blessed event. Eeeeekkkkkk!!!!!!

But yesterday, Doctor Allen told me just what I wanted to hear: there has been no progress in the last week. Ah..... now I can go to my cousin's baptism on Saturday (hopefully). :-)