It's About That Time...

Well, since my last post I have continued my weekly visits to the doctor. The first time I had a weekly appointment and got checked I was 2 cm dilated (and 50% effaced, though I did not know this at the time). I went back the next week for just a routine appointment and much to my dismay and curiosity, I did not get checked. My doctor was leaving to go out of town for a week for the 3rd appointment. We were sure that Kayleigh would decide to make her grand entrance when he was gone, but she obviously has not. Last week when he was gone, I saw the nurse practitioner and she told me that I was still 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced-no progress in basically 2 1/2 weeks. I was pretty bummed. At that point I was thinking that she was never going to come. I've cleaned just about everything I can clean here at the house-windows, blinds, bathrooms, bedrooms, etc. Boredom was starting to set in (yes, I know a child is no cure for boredom, but that's what I have to look forward to).

So Monday I went to the public library for the first time in years and checked out some books. Kyle obviously loved making fun of me for it, but it was so great to be back in the library to check some books out. I haven't done that in years. It's something that my mom and I used to do all the time when I was younger and I loved it. Hopefully someday I will be able to do the same thing with Kayleigh and she will enjoy it just as much as I have. So anyways, I checked a couple books out and already have 2 finished. Luckily they have both been really good. I started off with Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin and just finished Rosie Dunne by Celia Ahern. Both very good reads. I still have 2 books left to read, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen as quickly as these last two have gone.

I went to the doctor again yesterday for another checkup and boy have there been some changes! Kayleigh has officially dropped, I am now 4 cm dilated and 80% effaced. The awesome news is that I'm already through the first stage of labor and haven't felt any contractions. The said she's a happy, healthy baby. Kyle and I asked about the possibility of me going early or possibly being induced early (every major event and birthday just so happens to be next week when she's due). He said he had no problem inducing me early because she is doing great and I am so far along as far as being dilated and effaced. His response was "How does Friday sound?"
So I will be induced tomorrow morning at 8 am. However, he did say he would be surprised if I made it til Friday without her coming. And we are under strict orders to "be good". Apparently no more hanky panky for Kyle and I. I believe it was when he told us that he would be surprised if I made it to Friday that Kyle started laughing hysterically (this is what he does when he's freaking out and thinking "OH SHIT!"). Definitely not what we were expecting when we were going in to that appointment, but we are both so excited. It's hard to believe that the time is finally here and that Kyle will get to celebrate his first Father's Day with Kayleigh this year! There are so many thoughts and emotions going through my head right now, it's hard to make sense of all of this! The only thing I can think is WOW! and CRAZY!

So, next time I post, I'll be a mom, Kyle will be a dad, Tucker and Zeke won't know what struck their perfect world, and we'll both be the two happiest people in the world!

Wish us luck!