Monday morning labor blogging.

[rivka]

I am now quite sure that I'm in labor.

Contractions continue to come in a regular pattern and are much stronger than they were overnight. I am now comfortable describing them as "painful." I wouldn't really say that they're active labor contractions - I don't need to focus on coping with them, I can just note them and go on - but they are definitely early labor, not false labor/prelabor. And they're progressing.

I've checked in with my midwife (who says come to the hospital whenever I feel like it), and my friend Emily who will be acting as my doula, and Dorian who will be picking up Alex after school if everything isn't all over by then. I've left messages for work. I've finished packing my hospital bag. I am about to wrap the presents that we got for Niblet to give to Alex. Then I need to decide if I have enough time and energy to bake his birthday cake. (We have a zero-shaped candle ready and waiting...)

Michael is at work. I don't yet feel that I need someone to pay attention to me through my contractions, which is my mental dividing line between early and active labor. If necessary, he'll be able to get home pretty quickly.

Can you believe it? It's my due date. Or at least my original, calendar-derived due date - they changed it to the 11th partway through based on ultrasound results. Still, I may wind up being one of the only 5% of women who actually deliver on their due date. Wouldn't that be crazy?

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Here's hoping for an easy delivery!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

So exciting! Thinking of all of you, but especially you.

[eeyorerin]

Go Team Niblet!

On your due date, even. What a good baby he is.

[naomikritzer]

Yay! Good luck!

[cliosfolly.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

Remember, the 2nd ones tend to come faster than the first ones. Don't delay with curiousangel *too* much :)

I hope your labor is easy and lovely.

N.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Here's wishing you all a very happy birth-day!

[malibrarian.livejournal.com]

Best wishes for a smooth and easy labor. And you're a better woman than I am if you still have the energy to bake a cake for the kid. Giving birth to him would be enough for me!

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

Yay labor! Here's to an easy, uncomplicated delivery and a happy, healthy Niblet and mom!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[morning-glory.livejournal.com]

Warm wishes and good luck on a smooth and complication free birth.

[moobabe.livejournal.com]

!!!!

Thinking happy thoughts for everything to go smoothly and easily.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Best wishes for an uncomplicated delivery and a healthy Niblet.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Best wishes and best of luck!

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Yay! I hope they have wifi at the hospital!

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! See you on the other side!!!

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

I'll be thinking of you and hoping everything goes smoothly.

[geminigirl]

Hopes and wishes for a peaceful and easy labor and an amazing birth for you.

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

May all go smoothly and Co^H^HNiblet make his appearance in our lives!

[aloha-moira.livejournal.com]

Exciting! (and I love the idea of a 0th birthday cake!) Hope everything goes smoothly... my mom has always maintained that full moons are conducive (inducive?) to giving birth; maybe there's something to it?

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Whee! Come on, Niblet!

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

All good thoughts to you and the Niblet!

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Good luck! DOn't forget to switch the oven off if you have to leave in a hurry!

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Go Niblet Go!

Good luck.

[jenett]

Yay for updates, and Niblet, and all of you!

(And what a civilised Niblet, to let you have time to get everything organised at some point that is not the dead of night.)

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Go Niblet! Head down, head out! The world's awaiting.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

We had warning of Alex's birth because she was induced, so I had plenty of time to make a festive dinner with birthday cake. So then it was a tradition.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been up since 1:40am. But yes, I'm sure that my support and childcare people are grateful that they got to sleep through the night.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Prayers and best wishes from here.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Ooo, how exciting! I hope it goes really well.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Do not bake a fricking cake. What if you need to leave halfway through? You'll feel silly.

God bless you and bring the Niblet out where you can see him ASAP.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

A boughten cake from a good bakery would make a perfectly celebratory celebration. ::firm Mama glare of community support::

[kate_nepveu]

Crossing fingers for a sunny-side-down, easy in all other ways, joyful delivery.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

come on out, niblet! :)

[telerib.livejournal.com]

What timing! Best wishes for everything!

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Good wishes and good prayers to you all.

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

Woot!

I agree with jonquil; cake baking, even in early labor sounds rather chancy. Just as a data point, my first labor lasted 9 hours, second was 4 hours, third was 2 hours and fourth was 2 hours.

Good thoughts to you!

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

You sound so calm! I hope everything goes smoothly. Soon you'll all be meeting the Niblet on the outside, and he'll be meeting you on the outside.

[lissamc.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I'll be pulling for you from here.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

We're pulling for them, she's pushing. A fine division of, hee, labour.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Got our fingers crossed for a good labor and birth for all of you. I had my first one on his due date, so join the club!

K.

[redbird]

Yay Niblet, Rivka, and organization!

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!!

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Good luck!

Last week I also started going into labor on my calender-derived due date (although he was born two days later), so it must be a Thing this winter! :)

[thette.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[dragonflylover.livejournal.com]

I am in that 5% then and I did it three times. No, I didn't have a c-section for any of them.

good luck to you and can't wait to see the pictures!

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Excelsior, Niblet! Best of thoughts for everyone!

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Go Team Niblet! Happy birthday.