41 Weeks! (Yeah, you read that right!)

This baby is PAST DUE!
I am 8 days overdue today, folks. Sigh.

As it turns out, I am too good a hostess, and I simply can not get my guest to leave.

Went to see the doctor today, and she said that everything seems A-Ok. She said the baby is healthy, the uterus is perfect, head is in the right position, and I'm 2 cms now! Yay!

But baby is just a bit too comfortable. My doctor is in absolutely no hurry to get baby out, either. She says that all due dates are give or take 10 days anyway, so my due date could have been the 17th, or by the worst luck in the world, the 27th. And since I absolutely do NOT want to induce unless I absolutely have to (a very high percentage of inductions result in C-sections, and too much of any kind of foreign medication in the body is a bad thing anyway) I'm just going to have to keep trying to get this baby to come on its own.

And we are trying EVERYTHING!

I googled home remedies on how to induce a baby at home, and I sure have been doing them! Some pretty crazy stuff, too! Matthew and I spend a good 15 minutes a day just jumping up and down in place! I've spent time on the elliptical, I've been eating fresh pineapple (weird, right?) among MANY other recommended things. Baby is determined to stay put as long as it can.

And why not? If I was getting fed all my favourite foods, while relaxing in a hot tub all day, I wouldn't want to go anywhere either. Especially if I knew that on the outside, it was just cold and strange anyway.

Ultrasound appointment to check the fluid levels on Thursday, if they're low, induction on Thursday! If they're fine, I've got ANOTHER doctor's appointment on Monday! Which PLEASE GOD let us not make! :P

Either way, baby's GOT to come before the 30th, because our prized photographer is going to be GONE again from the 30th to the 3rd! Gah!

Come on baby!