T-3 & Holding...

Here is the progress.

After the hospital visit last night, the contractions seemed to slow a bit. This was even after they had reached their peak from walking the mall & other late night stores.

On the overnight, there were still contractions and a few woke her up in the night, but she was able to get some sleep.

This morning we went back to the doctor. The good news is that she is now 3 cm. dilated and 80% effaced. This means that at least the contractions were not for nothing. The doctor performed some procedures to help the contractions start again. She told us to go walking and some other tips to get things started going strong again. She said that we could go back to the hospital, but it would be pointless until we were having strong contractions that were two to three minutes apart. Right now, we are still holding at five minutes... and have been for well over twelve hours!

The doctor has scheduled for Christie to be induced on Wed. the 19th. The doctor was pretty sure that now that she was scheduled to be induced that she would go into labor before then.

So we're going to back to walking as the contractions have started again, and we still hold hope that we will have a baby tomorrow or the next day. If not - at least there is light at the end of the tunnel and we know that it will not be any longer than the 19th.

I will let you know when more happens!