Progress Denial & Saturday Updates

11am: Nicole has had 6 really strong contractions over the past 2 hours. It's getting harder to distract her and keep her busy. But at the same time, she denies that these are contractions. She continues to claim that pain moving from her lower abdomen to her groin and around to her back can not be contractions. LOL Guess she'll figure it out soon enough, huh?

2:30pm UPDATE: Contractions are lasting longer and are much harder now, lasting almost 2 minutes each and spreading into and across her back and hips. She's now calling them contractions :)

7:30pm: Contractions are intensifying and coming every 5-8 minutes now. I think we may be ready to head back to the hospital soon! :)

Craft Day

Nicole and I worked on Christmas ornaments, gifts and stockings today. We also worked on a butterfly, dragonfly and hummingbird mobile for the baby's crib and made a baby sling today.
We found some great patterns on this site. Maybe tomorrow we'll try the grocery cart cover?

So far we are still awaiting Kaidence's grand entry into the world. So while we wait, we sew, paint and bead which is not an easy task considering Nicole has always been impatient with crafting and sewing. Now, she's impatient for the baby AND impatient with activities, making her one heck of a cranky person today. But we have to do something to stay busy.

Still no baby

We're still walking stairs and waiting. Thus far, the contractions are not being consistent. We're hoping since it's a full moon, rainy, high tide night, that maybe she will get more serious sometime tonight. I'm exhausted; and I'm not the pregnant one! But Nicole seems to be hanging in there well and is staying rather calm at this point.

Making Progress

Nicole is now at 50% and is having some pretty painful, but productive contractions. About 30 mins ago, she had one that made her complain "I changed my mind! I don't wanna do this anymore!" LOL Other than that complaint she's doing well.

I will keep y'all posted as we proceed.

With Nicole

I have arrived in Jacksonville and staying in an absolutely beautiful penthouse condo on the beach! I surprised Nicole by having Scott bring her up to Carraba's for dinner. The staff sat me with my back to the door and then tried to seat them with me. At first, Nicole backed away from the table, (later saying she was flabergasted that they would sit them in a booth with someone else). But once I looked up and Nicole saw me, she screamed "MOMMMMMMMMMM!!"

Right now, she's laying here behind me on the couch. She's had some pains today, some quite strong, but nothing with any rhythm or consistency yet. But I'm having some really serious lower back pain right now. So I'm starting to wonder which one of us is really doing the work here?!? LOL

In The Home Stretch

and still no progress with labor! ~sigh~ Doesn't she LOOK ready to burst at the seams?

So, that's it! I'm going to head down there, make her eat pineapple and raisins with apple cider! We gotta get that baby moving!! LOL

39 Weeks and still not ready

Nicole's body is showing no progress toward labor as of yesterday. Kaidence is still happy as a little lark in there and still dancing around on her head much of the time. When she dances her way into a tight spot, she just starts pushing herself around until she gets everything where she wants it to be, much to her mother's dismay at times. I made her a pair of infant dancing shoes this week. Hopefully, she'll be ready for them soon! If not, I'm going to have to head down that way and have a talk with the little squirt and see if I can lure her out! LOL