Eventful Appointment

I guess before I get to the story about my appointment, I should say that I think everyone around me at work is "cheering" for me and anxious for Baby Hickman to arrive. I have at least 5 people a day come up to me now and say "you're still here"?! I have to remind them that I'm not actually due until Sunday, so they can't really make that comment until I come in on Monday. But, it was quite funny today when I got up to leave work early for my appointment and a large group of people looked at me and someone yelled out "are you leaving, Jamie??!!" As if I'd be calmly packing my computer etc. up if I was in labor...HELLO!! Anyway, it made me laugh and realize how many people are quite anxious to hear the good news.

My second funny story of the day came at the doctor's office. I was patiently waiting in the exam room for the doctor when all the sudden the fire alarm starts to go off and lights are flashing everywhere. My gosh...I wasn't sure what to really do. I glanced outside the door and asked the nurse if I was supposed to leave and they confirmed that was the case. I just thought it was rather amusing with the timing. Anyway, the whole building was evacuated for only about 10-15 minutes and then we went back in. So, my 10 minute appointment turned into an hour after the whole ordeal. The appointment was fine..no real change. Still 2-3 cm dilated and 90% effaced. So, just waiting for the rest to kick into action. I have one more appointment scheduled next Thursday where I'll also take a "stress test" to ensure everything is still okay with the baby. After that we'll at least have a date scheduled to induce me. They let me go a week and a half past my due date. So the longest would a little less than 2 weeks from today for inducing. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but we'll take this Baby however...ha ha.

Hopefully my next blog will be with baby pics...