Friday is the big day!!!

 Whoo!  Will you look at that progress!  Not too shabby for nearly 20 weeks of growing, if I do say so myself! 

Our induction is scheduled for this Friday (the 6th) at 7:30am, and we keep hearing horror stories about inductions taking 24-36 hours long or longer, and are praying our little hearts out that we're not one of those scenarios!!!  This might be TMI, but we're well aware that we're not just gonna walk in the hospital doors and joyfully have a baby 2 hours later (although, that would be awesome!).  The reason being that because they're inducing me 8 days early, there's a pretty big chance that my cervix isn't soft yet, so they'll have to do all kinds of medical/chemically things to get it to soften, which could take from 8-12 hours, and THEN they'll start the Pitocin, which in turn will start the contractions.  Even then, there's no guarantee that the contractions will kick-start labor.  That's why, they tell us, there's a good 30someodd% chance that we'll have a C-section.  And on top of that, Pitocin makes contractions much more intense and long, so our Lamaze instructor informed us that we'll most likely have to have an epidural in order to make it through.  Now, getting an epidural has been part of my plan since the beginning, but at least now I can defend myself against all the epidural nay-sayers with medical advice as an excuse.  You know, I never realized how intense mommas can argue about these such things, and how a natural birthing mama feels so superior to one who chose pain medications.  I just think "good grief, God helped the inventor of the epidural to invent it, so obviously he wants us to have the option of taking the pain away.  Why judge someone if they use what the good Lord helped to put on this earth?"  Either way, I'm jumping on the "serve up the pain killer cocktails and let's get this show on the road!" wagon.  Now if only we could conquer the circumcision debate with as much ease and assurance.  Whew!  If you are intimidated by the momma "discussions" about pain relief, then stay away when they're discussing circumcision.  Words like "inhumane", "mutilation" and even "Racist" have come up in my conversations about it. It's no fun.  No fun at all!

Anyway, the next post should be filled with photos of a (hopefully) adorable little baby!  Wish us luck!!!!