Tomorrow??!!

A few months ago I asked my mom if she would watch Quinn while I was in the hospital having Miles. I told her that I would try to make it convenient for her... "How is mid-morning on the seventeenth of December?" And it has been in my mind ever since that my fella just might make his appearance on the 17th! Fast forward to last night:

I spend a couple of hours (I really have no concept of the time I spent there) up at the hospital last night because I have been MISERABLY sick! I was super-dehydrated and they pumped me full of IV liquids and medicines. I was having contractions, but the nurse explained that they were because I was so dehydrated and that they would fade away soon. Umm... no.

After I got home from the hospital the contractions were SOOOO bad! They were coming every two-three minutes and they were really strong. The doctor tells me every visit to wait for an hour after contractions start before going to the hospital. After forty-five minutes I woke Travis up. As soon as he was downstairs with me I started shaking and shivering uncontrollably for a few minutes (freaked Travis out!). As soon as that subsided, the contractions were gone, too!

This morning I was still feeling pretty rough, so I headed up to the doctor's office. There, they hooked my up to a maching to monitor my contractions (which have calmed down a LOT but were still coming pretty regularly) and Miles' heart beat. He was "moderately unresponsive" so Dr. Noorda got out a funny little buzzer thing that has a TON of power. He buzzed the baby through my belly and my sweet little baby jumped and twisted and turned and his heart rate shot up! Super-good sign!

The doctor said that if I was dialated to a two he would send me straight over to the hospital... nope (a one)! He almost sent me over anyway, but as soon as he would have himself talked into it he would talk himself out of it again (kind of funny to watch). He said, "Come back tomorrow," and he gave me an 80% chance of delivering Miles then!

I am mostly planning on having my second son tomorrow! It's nuts! I am going to spend the day with Quinn doing whatever he wants to do today! We are going to start with making a snowman. I am sure that the day will involve going somewhere to get a hamburger (meat-bread as Quinn calls it), and who knows what else my little big-kid will want to do... whatever it is I will be taking a ton of pictures!