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induction tonight!
2003-02-12 | 4:15 p.m.

welp. i went to the doctor today. and he hooked me up to the fetal monitors. one for contractions, one for the babies heartbeat. and it was interesting. i was sitting in the chair, and the woman comes in, looks at the print out and says 'are you having contractions?' i said 'no.' she said 'you aren't feeling anything like a menstral cramp?' and i said 'no.' she looked at the print out and said 'i'm telling you you are having contractions.' and i said 'i feel tightening, but that's it. no pain or anything. no discomfort.' she said 'well, this is the beginning.' so, she sat there and said 'you feeling anything now?' and i said 'yeah, just the tightening.' she said they were coming really close together, but since they weren't painful or all that intense, there was no need to go to the hospital. she said probably tonight.

so, the doctor came in and looked at everything and said 'well, the baby has definitely dropped into the pelvis. the head is down.' and everything was hunky dory. he said 'now, let's check your cervix.' and he checked. i'm still about a centimeter and now i'm 60% effaced. so, yeah. he said 'regardless, since you are 2 weeks post date, we have to schedule an induction. regardless of the contractions. we have to schedule one.'

so, we go into his office, he explains they will give me a suppository to ripen my cervix, and if labor hasn't started on it's own after 4 hours, they will give me another one. after that, they start petocin (however you spell it), and if nothing happens after that, they'll send me home. but, my mom, and another doctor that was there.

so, we go out to schedule it for either tomorrow (which really means midnight or 1) or tomorrow night (midnight or 1). the hospital said i could schedule it for tonight at 9 or 10. and the other doctor kind of whispered and said 'make it for tonight at 10.'

soooo everyone, tonight at 10 at night, i'm going to the hospital to be induced. my mom and the other doctor think since i'm having these contractions, that tonight will be it, that they won't be sending me home. so, tonight could very well be it!

my next entry will most likely be a birth story. i will update again after the baby is here!

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