Pros

Yesterday I had my last doctors appointment and I was uber, yes UBER excited about it. I couldn't wait to find out how much I had progressed and maybe even the doctor would say "oh man, let's get you to the hospital. You are about to give birth!"...
I didn't progress. Nuttin. Not even a 1/2 a centimeter. Man that was sad. I had been having serious contractions all weekend. Painful. Timing out correctly. But nothing. I started trying to self induce with all types of foods, spicy, chinese, pineapple, mango, black licorice, red raspberry leaf tea, EVERYTHING I read about. Took walks. Did some crazy dance moves. Even had my sister in law hit those "forbidden" pressure points on your ankles (which by the way worked the best, holy cow those contractions came fast and were some serious). But nothing. Clearly, Zoey realllly just wants to be born on her own terms. So with all this news naturally I sobbed for the rest of the day. Yep. Totally had a pity party for myself. First one all pregnancy and I waited 3 days before my due date to have it, not too bad eh?
So now I have a NST (non stress test) for Monday and have to be in the hospital on the 9th for my induction. Now, that is what I was crying about the most. Induction? INDUCTION!? When I had pitocin with Cassidy my body freaked out. Sent my blood pressure sky high, temperature went up and just was so out of it, which naturally sent Cassidy into fetal distress, and at one point her heartbeat was even lost. Needless to say it was the scariest moment of my life. EVER. They had to shut off the pitocin. So clearly with this memory stuck in my head forever, I am not eager to try it again...
Then there was a ray of sunlight in my day. My friend told me about this gel like stuff, I believe its called Cervadil?, which actually thins out your cervix and can make it so rather than pitocin to bring on contractions they may be able to just break my water for me and hope my body goes into labor. Relief. Talking about this made me feel so much better. Maybe there is a way for me to completely avoid pitocin. So Pros of Induction:
- I know this time next week I will FOR SURE have a baby in my arms <3
- I would definitely be delivered by a midwife
- I won't have to worry about counting contractions, I know I would be in labor
- I finally get the best ice and cranberry juice EVER

So if I last through the weekend and this crazy full moon activity and past my due date on Saturday, I won't have to wait much longer. Miss Zoey Leigh Nicholson will be joining us on May 9th. I can not wait :)