Baby is coming!

This morning Jen started to feel her water break. We went to the doctor, and found out she was 6cm--and while checking, the water really started to break! So, as I "type" this, she's at 7cm and comtracting steadily. We'll post more updates as news comes!

Also, the site may start forwarding you to a new domain soon: pbjmerry.com

That's a hint. :)

Swim lessons

Well, it looks like Paige doesn't have to share her birthday after all! Which is a really good thing because if we even mentioned another holiday or someone else's birthday yesterday in conversation, Paige would shout out "It's MY Birthday today". Justin had gotten a baseball magazine in the mail and I told him it was an early Father's day gift. Paige quickly interjected with "It's not Father's day today, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!"

At this point I think I'd be very happy to just hang in there for another week until my induction date. It's easier to plan for and we'll know we have someone ready to watch Paige as well. I'm not a big fan of surprises.

Yesterday was Paige's first swim lesson at St. Francis. She hasn't been in a pool since last summer, so we knew she'd probably have a tough time with it. And she did. She was pretty afraid of the water. Daddy went in with her and I just sat on the side with my feet in. Swimming probably would be good for me right now, but my stomach was feeling upset yesterday so I didn't want to go in. She didn't cry all that much, just protested a little throughout the lesson that she didn't want to do anything. So for the most part she just kept her arms around daddy's neck for half an hour during the lesson. Her next lesson is this Thursday afternoon, hopefully she'll be able to make it. I'll try to post some pictures later this afternoon.

She was starting to get nervous right after she got her suit on:
Here she just sat for a few moments staring at the pool. Probably wondering what the heck was going to happen next.

It's a big class. 11 total students. Here they are playing motorboat, motorboat:Finally Paige is getting a little more relaxed and at least took her hands off from around daddy's neck to hold a toy.
After the lesson was over she was able to put her pretty dress back on and look at the pretty tulips. She's such a girly girl!

Happy Birthday Paige!

We had a low-key celebration of Paige's birthday on Sunday. She was so excited when we told her it was her birthday. She insisted on wearing a dress and her fancy white shows and twirled around all day saying "It's my Birthday, I'm 3". I think the part she was most excited about was to blow out candles.




Strawberry shortcake, with candles!
For her actual birthday today, she's taking cupcakes that daddy made in to preschool. Hopefully they will sing and let her blow out candles again!

39 weeks

Another week has passed. I'll be 39 weeks tomorrow. Today at my doctor appointment I'm measuring at 3.5cm dilated. We met with a different doctor in the practice than the previous few weeks. He was very optimistic that she'll come any day now. He offered to check with the hospital and induce me today if I was interested. But we decided to not push her to much if she's not ready. But on the other hand, I don't want her getting too comfortable in there, so we set a date for induction of 5/27/09. That's 1 day after her due date. He also told me that if I start feeling contractions that I think are real to not hesitate too much. Since I'm this far along already, she may come quickly.

These were taken today:

38 weeks - tomorrow

I'll be 38 weeks tomorrow, but my doctor's appointment was today so I thought I'd update early. I've been having quite a few contractions this week, mostly at night. But they didn't convert to very much dilation progress. I'm 2.5 cm and 75% effaced at this point. I brought up induction with the midwife and she said she'd be willing to induce anytime after 39 weeks. I told her we could discuss it more next week, but I know the baby is probably better off if I can just let her come when she's ready. It's just getting really tough on my body so I hope it is sooner rather than later.

37 weeks

I'm 37 weeks today which is considered full term. Last night I was having some pretty strong contractions about 4-5 minutes apart, but they faded away after about an hour. This morning was my 37 week check up and I'm 2cm dilated and 75% effaced. That's a good amount of progress for in a week!

For comparison (I know every pregnancy is different so this doesn't mean much) I was 2.5cm dilated and 50% effaced 2 days before Paige was born.

I'd like to make it to at least 38 weeks, but I'm not counting on going much longer than that.

36 weeks

Today I'm 36 weeks. I had a doctor appointment this morning. She wasn't going to check to see if I'm dilated yet, because she said it really doesn't mean anything at this point. I could be 0 and still go into labor tonight or I could be 3cm and have 3 more weeks to go. But she said if I wanted her to then she would check. And since I was under the assumption that I would be checked today and was already undressed for a different test I told her to go ahead and check. And the result is...

1 cm and 50% effaced

It does make me a little happy to know that some progress is being made, even if it's just a little :)

This picture is a little older, but I just found it on the camera. Its from just a few days before I was 33 weeks:

Update: I just looked in some old emails from before Paige was born. I had a doctor appointment on May 8th and I was 1cm and 40% effaced at that point. That was 11 days before she was born!