Baby Delays......

Yesterday around midnight (which was 12:00am Wed. morning) I woke up with contractions about 2-4 minutes apart lasting about 45 sec. to a minute each. Called the doctor after a little while and he said to come on in. Got to the hospital about 2:30am and I was 4cm and having about a 3 on the pain scale of 1-10 for contractions so they admitted me and I was ready. For about 2 hours I had the same contractions. I got in the tub about 4:30 and my contractions slowed to being about 10 minutes apart. After that they went to about 12 minutes apart and at 10:30am when my doctor go to the hospital they had pretty much stopped and she sent me home. :( Boo! So now I am 4-5 cm she said and the good news is that when I do start having contractions like that again it will definitely be the real thing and pretty quick with my progress so far already. She offered to brake my water but if she did that I would be committed to getting him out and stuck there being much less mobile. While I am beyond ready to get him out she could not guarantee that braking my water would start the contraction enough to get the job done without Pitocin and if I didn't get him out within 8-10 hours after having my water broken then they would have to do a c-section because the risk of infection by that point would be too great. So, with no guarantees except that he was doing quite well inside me right now we decided to come home and let him tell me again when he was ready to come out. So as of now I have not had any contractions since 1pm yesterday afternoon and he is as happy and mobile inside me as he ever was. And now 8 days late. :( I am thankful that he is still doing well and that we were able to make this decision with family around to help out for a week.

So, a prayer for us and for Mr. Bean's dad. He had a 2nd heart attack yesterday morning. He will be ok and is going to a step down unit from ICU today but he is not in good health and if this doesn't get him to change his lifestyle then he is in for something much worse soon.