TODAY IS IT

We are in the hospital. It has been a long haul to get here but we are finally here. This morning at about 5:30 Christina's water broke, so we thought. We came to the hospital got admitted and thought we were good. The doctor came in and checked her and was unable to find amniotic fluid so she was discharged and we went home. The doctor thought that she "wee'd" on herself.

I decided to go to work and Christina was going to take a nap and just hang around the house. She was very discouraged with the whole situation. She was going to lay down and it happened again she felt another gush. She came to pick me up at work and we went back to the doctor. They were able to find fluid and we were sent back to the hospital!!!!!!!

Now we are on pitocin to help strengthen the contractions and she is sitting on the birthing ball. She is pretty comfortable and doing pretty well. I will try to keep things as up to date as possible. If things don't really make sense its because I'm super tired and I have a bunch of people distracting me.

TRUE or FALSE

Well boys and girls we don't know what is going on. We were rolling right along this morning, contractions were about 5 to 6 minutes apart while we were walking. We can home and things just kinda stopped. We went for another walk and nothing!! So, we don't know what to do. I'll keep things posted if anything changes.

Getting Close

Here we go boys and girls. We have been having contractions for two days now. They are getting strong this morning. I hope that today is the day. We have not gone to the hospital yet, that will happen when the contractions are 5 minutes apart. Christina's mom and two sisters are here already. They came in last night. They are all super excited. I will not be going to work today so that we can try and walk this baby out. I will keep posting to keep things up to date. Keep your fingers crossed!!!!!!!!

CONTRACTIONS

Well, we think Luke is coming soon. Christina has started having contractions. We went for a long walk last night and she started having what she thought was contractions. They continued through the night though not very frequent or regular. They have continued this morning. She decided to go into work this morning and see how long she could last. So....maybe tonight we will be going to the hospital but I really have no idea. I will keep posting today to let everyone know whats going on. We will also try to give everyone a call when we head to the hospital. Keep the blog up tonight and keep your phone close. Hopefully, we will have a new addition to the family tonight!!!!!!!

38 and no real news

Well, we hit 38 weeks yesterday. All is going well other than Christina is miserable. She is having a hard time sleeping and is really ready to have this baby. We did go to the doctor Friday and she was 1/2 cm dilated and about 80% effaced. I would like for him to come this week but you never know. I will try and post one last picture of how Christina looks before we go into labor. I will be sure to keep everything up to date when labor starts. Keep your fingers crossed!!!

36 and Ready.......I think

Today we went to our last birth class. We felt like it was helpful in the fact that we were able to learn about what to expect going into labor. This class was not very helpful since they pretty much just told us how to change a diaper. I thing that we are both more comfortable now that we took the class.

Christina is done being pregnant. She has been having what she describes as strong menstrual cramps for about a week now. She also thinks that she lost her plug tonight. I don't know if any of that means that the baby is coming or not but she really hopes so. I know I am ready to become a parent and she is as well. I'm not looking forward to late nights and no sleep but I am ready to meet the newest member of the family. Luke is going to have a ton of love not only from us but everyone else that we know. Well maybe my next update will be us on the way to the hospital.

Updates...

There is a bunch of news from this past week. I was off on Thursday and Friday so we were able to get a ton of things done. I put together all of the things that we got from last weekends baby shower. If you come into our house you would think that we already have a baby here. There is a swing and a pack-n-play in the living room, a high chair and a stroller in the dinning room and we also installed the base for the car seat in Christina's new car.

Friday we met up with Christina's Mom for lunch and an all day work day. First, we went shopping at the Carter's outlet. Next, we came home and sorted all of the clothes and started washing them. Then, we went to Lowe's and Targets to get some other thing that we "needed". She decided that a new washer and dryer were needed since they have a kid care setting. Finally we picked up some last minute things at Target.

We also feel like the baby has "dropped". This is when he starts getting into position for birth. We also made a pregnancy cast to kinda remember what Christina looked like while she was pregnant. We thought it was pretty fun. Now, Christina wants to just hide it. She not a big fan of it. But, I think that its pretty neat.

We have a doctors appointment tomorrow and we will find out if she has started to dilate. This will give us an idea of when he might come. But, as of right now they still say that they are not going to change or due date. Thats all I have for tonight, I'll post once we know whats up with the kid.