Attention everyone: Heather has left the office building
At precisely 2:16pm today I left work for the last time until December. I did manage to get all the essential stuff wrapped up before I left; didn't get lots of other stuff wrapped up but they'll manage without me.
What a strange feeling - to think of 4 whole months of not going into the office.
Of course, there's little time for slacking off, as Tim and I are about to get a NEW boss... we're not sure when she's gonna arrive and we don't really know much about her yet, other than she's really small and demanding and I'm sure she'll have me and Tim both dancing to her beat within seconds of starting on the job.
Speaking of whom, we had our weekly doctor's appt. today. Actually, we saw a midwife since our regular doctor is... ahem... on vacation. I guess everyone's gotta take a vacation sometime, and if it wasn't this week it'd be next week when one of her other patients is due. Still :-)
Anyway, everything is measuring fine - size of uterus, Baby Girl's heart rate, my blood pressure. I've gained a pound since last week. I think it's all in my feet though. They're horribly swollen.
So here are some more teasers for those due date watchers out there:
I'm now
- 2cm dilated
- 90% effaced
And Baby Girl is sitting way low. Apparently she's low enough to be at a "station" but which one the midwife neglected to say so unfortunately we don't have that little stat to pass along.
No - I'm not going to interpret any of that data for you - you can research it yourself if you're really interested :-)
So tonight we're celebrating my last day at work by going to eat spicey thai food. Rumour has it spicey food can help to bring on labour. We'll see. Our midwife said it sounded like a good plan ;-)
Comments
Bumpy roads work too.
Posted by Uncle Tom on August 3, 2005 5:41 AM.ok, so I looked it up, and my interpretation of the internets is that Heather could have her baby anytime, like 2 minutes from now or 2 years from now. Good luck Heather and Timmy!
Posted by Janel on August 3, 2005 10:02 AM.Yup - that's pretty much what all that means ;-)Although two years is probably stretching it just a tad... our doctor has set an induction date just in case, so we know she WILL make her appearance within a finite (and relatively short) amount of time (thank goodness ;-))
Posted by heather on August 3, 2005 12:08 PM.