We made it to the hospital today and started inducing around noon, but the first day didn’t produce any newborns. Sarah is staying at the hospital tonight, and we hope to try again tomorrow.
Patience, patience, patience. I think that’s the theme of this delivery so far!
They said a nurse was coming on shift at 11, so they should have enough staff to handle us! Hopefully there will be more news soon!
The hospital says that they’re pretty full right now, so I guess we get to sit here for another couple of hours and check back at 9:00.
Well, here we are at the end of our weekend, with the same number of kids that we started with! I’ve been putting Sarah through her steps, from lawn mowing to carting 50 lb bags of dirt across the backyard, and she still hasn’t gone into labor yet! Just kidding…
In a way it’s nice knowing that Tuesday is the official date for us, but at the same time, it sure would be fun for this little guy to surprise us and come a day or two early! If you couldn’t tell, I like surprises! But I guess there isn’t much more to do but wait ’till Tuesday.
Sarah just said (from across the room) that she thought we’d only mess everyone up by going in on Monday, anyways!
I’ve had a special request for more baby news–I guess it’s a little tough to write about the baby when there are so many fun stories to tell about Titus (which I never seem get around to writing about either)!
So the scoop on the new baby:
We had a 36 week ultrasound where the baby measured 8 lbs. 9 oz., give or take a pound.
That’s pretty big.
Given the typical growth rate of half a pound per week, that would put us in the range of 9 1/2 lbs. to 11 1/2 lbs. at 40 weeks (full term). Of course, the doctor Sarah was seeing with Titus wondered if he may have grown more than half a pound per week during those last few weeks. I’ll let you do the math…
So needless to say, we’re concerned that this baby may be Titus-sized or larger. The midwife scheduled Sarah to be induced on May 13th, her due date, to limit the risk of having a really, really big baby.
In short, tomorrow will mark 1 week or less till the new baby arrives! It couldn’t come sooner for Sarah, and as for me…well, a coworker with 4 kids of his own commented the other day, “you’d better start saving up on sleep!”
