Jon left for Washington, DC on August 2nd and I have been trying to stay busy while he's been gone. He drove cross country with his brother, Doug. Since he has been in DC he has found us a basement apartment to live in, which is furnished and only 7 miles from campus... it's also only about 5-10 minutes from the DC temple. He is currently looking for a job and he started school this week!
I had a Dr appt last week and my doctor told me the baby has started to descend and I was about 70% efaced, but my cervix hasn't started dilating yet. I have been having frequent Braxton-Hicks contractions that seem to be getting stronger and more frequent so who knows how long it will be but I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna make it to my due date. I just hope that he will stay in there long enough for my mom to get here this Friday night. But Jon's sister, Rebecca, has been super helpful and is prepared to take me to the hospital whenever I call.
The Plan:
As soon as my mom, and Aunt Dian, get here Friday night we are going for a very long walk and then my mom will give me a shiatzu massage and hit all the pressure points they tell you to avoid because of concern of inducing labor.... the point is to induce labor. And if all goes well I will start having REAL contractions! The reason I want to do this as soon as they get here 1) because Dian will only be here til Sunday and 2) most importantly I have arranged for Jon to fly in Saturday evening so I want to make sure he has time to change his flight if it doesn't work and I don't go into labor. We were fortunate enough to be offered a rapid rewards round-trip ticket from some dear friends in our ward that will allow Jon to fly here for the birth BUT there are only a limited number of availabilities on flights out here so finding one that meets our needs may be tricky. He may end up having to pay for his flight our here so he can get here as soon as possible (hopefully) and use the free ticket on the way home... which would still save us tons of money! So either way thanks bunches to our friends who provided us with the tickets! But how awesome would it be if I really did go into labor and he was able to be here?!
I have another Dr. appt this Thursday to see how things are going and also to talk about an induction date... so if my plan doesn't work this weekend we can always fall back on that.
