Change of plans

As we said a few weeks ago, the birth of our baby is out of our hands and it appears to a certain extent out of our doctor's hands too. Despite our thoughts that we'd get to meet baby by the weekend, it seems it won't happen.

We had our appointment this afternoon; they estimate baby's current weight at 9 lbs, 9 oz. This was good news to the doctor as then we could try for a vaginal delivery as opposed to the c-section, so she checked me out and apparently my body isn't ready to give birth just yet - I'm still only dilated to a little over 1 cm, and I'm not "soft" enough or "thinned out" enough yet either, and to top it all off, baby hasn't engaged (dropped) just yet. So all that means they can't induce me yet, which was a disappointment to the doctor and myself. We have an appointment scheduled for Monday morning, so they'll re-evaluate then, and she's hoping to be able to send me to the hospital Monday afternoon or Tuesday at the latest to induce. So we'll see what happens.

After all the debating over the past week and thinking that we'd be parents this week, it was a litttle hard to find out that things weren't going to happen as we had thought. I think I'm being taught a lesson in letting things go; someone at my RCIA class mentioned the phrase "Let go and let God" - I think although I know that, I was trying to control this as much as I could (you know my love of planning!), so here it goes - letting go!

I know many of you were just as anxious as we were to meet this baby, but I think we're all going to have to wait just a little longer. Aaron and I are now trying to figure out what to do this weekend, maybe we'll come up with a fun costume for Halloween to make an appearance at a few parties. If you have any suggestions for costumes, let us know.

We'll keep you updated. Plan on checking back Monday afternoon as that's when we'll update the blog again unless there's a change betwen now & then. Thanks for all your thoughts, prayers, and e-mails; we really appreciate them!