The little man

He is here! After weeks and weeks of waiting, Logan Elliot Miescher-Lerner has arrived. Yesterday was a day of wonder and pain, though with just four hours of labor I should not complain. However, to have this little man in my arms I would go back and have 24 hours a labor. I am overwhelmed with complete glee.

Maybe baby?

All day I've felt a bit ill, like I need to vomit but can't. My gut has been making crazy sounds and my whole body feels off.

venturing downstairs

Lately I've been considering venturing downstairs into the basement. Not that I want to- I'm a bit scared of what it will be like. Today I finally did it an it's dry!!! Whoooo-ho.

To write or not to write

I decided a year or two ago that I was going to go back to school and become a teacher. It seemed quite simple a decision at the time but I never really acted on it until this semester was starting. I went ahead and enrolled in a class I would need to get my certificate and figured that taking one class while pregnant would not be too exausting. I was wrong. However, I will have an A in this class if it kills me.

Dinner Time at the Nightengale

The typical routine is that at 5:00 I get home and feed the dogs. Monkey ignores his food and begs for his 'rub down' and Goose devours his food so fast I almost can't remember if I even fed him. I cook something for Nick and I then it's a free for all for the rest of the evening. Dog walks, homework, work related work, errands to run and whatnot are all options depending on what we need and want to do. Lately I've wanted to do nothing, so when I started to come home feeling so exhausted that I was not even feeding the dogs I wanted Nick to pick up the slack. He could cook for us and I'd feed the dogs. He could do the dishes and I would put them away- that sort of thing. Is this too much to ask?

Stripping of the membranes

So what actually happens when you have your membranes stripped. This lovely procedure involves the OBGYN placing their fingers inside your cervix and swishing them around to break the membranes that reside between the bag of waters and the wall of the cervix. It is supposed to lower the bag of waters and put pressure on the cervix assisting in ripening and hopefully initiating the start of contractions. It feels only a bit more comfortable than it sounds and the worst part is that it does nothing if your body if not ready to give birth. It does not induce labor if the baby is not yet ready to be born. After she stripped my membranes (which ironically enough every time I say it makes me think of the term screwed ones brains out which is exactly what Nick and I did in order to get me into a position where having stripping my membranes was even an option) I thought for sure that I had lost my mucus plug - that lovely bloody snot like plug I've been looking for weeks for. Alas, 8 hours later still no contractions and no other symptoms.

Talking myself into it

I woke up with such a horrendous backache I was positive it was the first signs of labor. However, now I realize that when you run a verticut machine over 3 lots, rake the yard a few times and throw grass seed on everything in sight it's likely to cause a backache, especially when your body has an extra 30 pounds strapped to the front of it. I've been searching for signs of labor so meticulously that all I'm doing is making myself more and more paranoid that it will never happen. Other than very explainable backaches there have been no other symptoms. I'm starting to get very discouraged.