Blathering On

Things I think and then type.

Entries for August, 2009

The morning after admission – progress report

Elizabeth had a pretty rough night as there are things they do to get the induction process moving that were very painful.  I was concerned that she was going to have to suffer through that intense pain the whole night.  After a couple hours, however, her water broke and she went on some pain medication [...]

We’re Heeeeeeere!

Elizabeth’s doing great!

Saw doctor this morning, beginning induction this evening

We saw Dr. Clinton with high hopes that some progress had been made.  Nothing.  The baby hasn’t dropped and there was absolutely no dilation.  Dr. Clinton was very surprised by this complete lack of movement.  We discussed our options.  The three paths we could take were, 1. Just wait, let nature take it’s course, 2. [...]

False alarm today

We had some symptoms strong enough that the on-call doctor advised us to goin to triage today at about 3pm.  So we packed everything up and drove on in.  It was actually kind of nice to do it on a Saturday afternoon — reasonable traffic, plentiful parking spaces.  However, it was all for naught.  To [...]