Any Day Now

I went to my ob-gyn on Tuesday afternoon and I am now 4 cm dilated, 80% effaced, and our baby girl is still head down at -1. She told me that I should try to get to the hospital as soon as labor starts since I am already dilated to where I will be admitted upon arrival.

Today we had a bit of a scare when I realized that I hadn't felt the baby move all day. She normally moves quite a bit throughout the day-lots of jabs and kicks at this point-so it made me very worried to realize that I hadn't felt her move one time all day long. I phoned my doctor's office and the on-call nurse told me to immediately go to triage in the family birth center to be monitored. Jeff, Nicholas, and I quickly piled into the car and drove to the hospital. During our drive I was praying that everything would be okay with our baby. We were so relieved when the nurse put the fetal heartbeat monitor on my belly and we heard her heartbeat loud and strong. My blood pressure was also good and the baby moved several times while I was there. I was told to drink more water and put my feet up if I don't feel much movement again. Hopefully, I won't have to worry about that too much since our baby girl should be arriving any day now!

It is so difficult to wait for this little baby girl to arrive...I wonder who she will look like, what kind of baby she will be, how labor and delivery will go, and mostly I just cannot wait to hold her and kiss her!