3 hours into our hospital stay, and 5 minutes into May 23rd, meg asked me to update her blog. As those of you following her twitter have heard, she’s being induced because she’s developed preclampsia. This was suggested by vomitting, nausea, headaches all day today. A recent urine test confirmed what these symptoms indicated. In [...]

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I beginning to think that there should be some design flaw in women that they lose the ability to count when pregnant. When you aren’t counting down the seconds, things go by much faster and just happen. If I didn’t have a due date and countdown, the baby would just come when he’s ready. If [...]

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So it turns out that  some women just can’t wait and want to have a baby sooner than later. If you body is close to labor anyway there are some things that have been known to naturally induce labor. Anything with a star is something that one should consult with a doctor first… but just [...]

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So it turns out only 15% of women actually have their water break. So much for all that drama on TV. The BH have been so on and off now that I’m completely unfased by the fact they happen. I thought it meant we were getting closer to the real arrival and the real deal. [...]

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For most of the night and day yesterday, I had contractions.  Every half hour or so they’d come and go. For a while, they were even 10 minutes apart. Well, it came time to go to the NST, and I was kind of interested if one would show up on the paper print out. As [...]

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