Entering Betting Pool Time Frames

For all those who entered the poll/pool for bragging rights and cookies: Let the Games Begin!

We had an OB visit, yesterday, and for all that the new partner was only available in the evening we had a wonderful low-key visit and could take all the time we wanted. "After hours" visits are awesome. No one was waiting in front of us, we had the nurses and doctor all to ourselves. Everyone was relaxed, instead of trying to rush through a long list of procedures and patients. We could sit and chat with the doctor about anything and not feel like we were wasting her time. It was wonderful. No *ahem* exam because she says that (especially with 2nd, 3rd, etc. pregnancies) they don't tell you much. You go into labor when you go into labor and nothing but contractions is going to dilate you. We got the on-call rotation schedule, though, and for the next two weeks the midwives are only not on call for a total of 4 days. I can't tell you how happy I am about that. I expressed my views on c-sections quite clearly (1: someone had better be dying; 2: you don't want me awake for that) and she said not to worry as I was a perfect candidate for a midwife, having fairly quick, uncomplicated births. I'm actually shooting for the weekend of the 20th, since Lisa will be on call and she's the only one I've known longer than 6 months, but you never can quite tell with babies. They tend to do their own thing. We went ahead and scheduled one more visit, since that'll get us to 38 wks, 5 days and I only got to 39 wks, 4 days with either of the other two.

We'll keep you posted. You'll notice that I've acquired a Twitter feed (to the left) so people can keep up with us. You can call to check in, if you want, but if you can't/don't want to you're not out of the loop.