40 weeks...where the heck are you baby!!

we have reached our first estimated due date. we have also reached our second estimated due date. we are well on our way to blow past our third estimated due date. i kind of feel like this is going to go on forever. i know that it cant and wont but the light at the end of the tunnel is barely a glimmer.

after the foley bulb and castor oil, and stripping my membranes, and the black and blue cohash didnt work at the birth center, i have resigned myself that our little girl is stubborn, and very much likes to make an entrance. which is all fine and dandy but doesnt she realize that no matter what you do when you are born that you are making an entrance? and everyone including strangers will be happy for us? i guess not.

last night i started having some braxton hicks contractions, which may or may not mean something. hopefully it means something. every time i got up i was having one but i didnt really try to time them since there wasnt any pain. secretly i was hoping that every time i got up my water would gush all over the floor and then maizie would have no choice but to be born. my moms labor with me was somewhat like that, no gushing but she slept through it all and i was almost born on the sofa. lucky lady, sleeping through labor.

today we get to go to salem and then to the birth center. another day of driving. i am going to the chiropractor in the hopes that she will be able to get everything in place, hips and back wise, so that it's more conducive to labor. also, it might make maizie turn around instead of being face up which would be more ideal. we will see. at the birth center, we are going to discuss the potential of breaking my water. i am not happy about that and i dont feel comfortable with that plan so i dont think i am going to do it. i would rather wait and see how things go for a couple more days, especially since my blood pressure has leveled out. i really feel like the urgency has kind of died out to get her here. so unless there is a real threat to her or me we arent doing the breaking of the water thing.