i caved

today i went for my lovely 40 week check up. technically today i am 39 weeks and 5 days, Friday the 5th is when I turn 40 weeks. Anyway, i did get another centimeter dilated and finally effaced enough to give it a percent! woo hoo. she called me at a 30%, I'll take it. she asked if i wanted to schedule and i said yes, let's talk. she offered up next week. that took my breath away for a second. there was no way she could do today or tomorrow, so Friday the 5th it is. i will be induced unless something happens before then. let me just say when she "checked" me, she also tried to help a sista out in the dilating department. there's spotting involved. maybe it will get me going before Friday or at least get me another centimeter before Friday. either way, I'll take that too. i did ask that i skip the whole pitocin since it didn't work with either of my other children. i asked if i could jump right to the epidural since that is like magic for me. for those that don't know, i waited around for hours with both pregnancies and was at about a 4 when i got both epidurals. for B--i went from a 4 to 10 plus 3 in 1 hour and he was born 30 minutes later. With A, i was a 4 and to a 10 plus 3 in about 45 minutes and she was born just 7 minutes later--much faster! doctors and nurses usually say that once you get an epidural it takes about a centimeter every hour or so. i will never forget the feelings i had and the look on the nurses face when she came in to check me after one hour with B. there was no time for them to up the epi for the pushing that time. i just had to get locals to help with pain, fun times. my doctor approved for me to have my epi whenever i ask for it on Friday, so looks like this baby will be here in no time!

I'm so glad i took this week off of work. today i was able to get my roots done and a fresh new haircut for the summer. I'm all ready for those delivery room pics. christy will be there doing her photography duties. she's captured the other two for us, so she has to do the last. we're all ready to know what this baby is!!

I'll update once we get home on Sunday or maybe sooner--if there is a laptop around.