Daydreaming while waiting impatiently!

Don't give up on those eggs... if the temp was only up for an hour or so you might be ok. Congrats on the peas and even bigger congrats on baby eviction notice! Woo hooo - it's getting so close! So glad the meds are helping our son - but - in reality it helps remove some stress from your entire family.

5 days after "cooking" the eggs, I chilled them to 65 degrees. The light bulb that heats the incubator burned out. I candled a couple eggs and didn't see any blood rings. I left them all in.

Baby is still growing - and he's still small. Abdomen measurement in the 1st percentile. But his weight is estimated at 6 3/4 pounds, plus or minus 15 oz. That's hopeful. Placenta is functioning still. They're letting me go another week without inducing. Another round of tests next Friday to see if they'll let me go the final week.

I got a box and 3 bags of cloth diapers in the mail today! I'm excited! Cloth diapering with DS was hard because I didn't have enough money to get enough cloth diapers up front. I wasn't able to cloth diaper completely until he was almost 2 years old.

My son is dong SO MUCH BETTER. He can do little projects by himself now! It's so fun to watch! He earned a bit of workbench and permission to use some tools. He is finally able to plan a project and then follow his plan. His attitude is so much better! He is all "I love you" and "thank you" ALL THE TIME now. He used to be a PITA sassy-butt and arguing all the time! He's able to do chores promptly - no more lying about them. He's putting on clean clothes every day!!! Total win! He can bathe himself now. Thank God!!! He can brush his teeth! He can focus on schoolwork for 15 minutes... even unsupervised. He can balance his attention between eating a little snack and focusing on a task. Most of these things seem really small, but such a relief for everyone here!! I'm excited to let him start reading again, he was skipping around books so badly before - no reading getting done at all. He is reading pages in order without losing his place now. We'll see how much damage was done to his comprehension by the attention issues going unnoticed for so long.... Anyway, all good things. I'm very happy to live in an age of modern medicine!

It's a chilly week here. I'm impatient to shear sheep - hopefully before Baby arrives!! - but don't dare to cut their wool off when we're still at near-freezing temperatures at night. We have peas up in the garden. They're covered with straw and blankets: going fine. Kale and the first broccoli are up and doing OK. Onion sets are sprouting too.

Best news: no deer tracks in the garden! The electric fence must be working!

Yay for your son! I'll bet he is feeling so much better about it too! My hubby was ADHD big time and he said he hated feeling like he had no control over himself.

I've been having false labor for hours, up to 3 times a day. As of this morning, I had had false labor for 12 of the previous 24 hours. Hadn't eaten enough in days, dehydrated, crazy emotional and just defeated. That's a lot of ouchy work and then to have no progress, nothing to show for it. I was feeling terrible!

Started arguing with DH via email today about labor/delivery options. He pointed out that if I don't feel good about my OB that I should find another. That sparked an idea to see if I could switch to the certified nurse midwife team in my hometown. I have an appointment next week with the midwife who delivered DS, to see if they will take me. I'd have to stay in a hotel across the street from the hospital. Besides that small downside, I'd be able to get caregivers I FEEL SAFE WITH, I don't have to worry about the 40 minutes it takes us to get to the hospital (I have a history of precipitous labor... and sleeping through it!! ), I'd get the pediatrician I want, access to rental at-home bili-lights if Baby ends up with high bilirubin as we expect, and better childcare options for DS. If Baby doesn't come before then, and if the midwives can take me on, I'm going! whether DH likes it or not!

Of course, I feel so relieved about seeing this potential option that I'm all relaxed and contractions stopped. I was able to EAT TWO MEALS!!!! And have had a 10 hour break from labor. Thank God, I was so exhausted!

I've been neglecting the incubator. DH is checking it for temperature, but not rotating eggs. DH planted the rest of the garden today. He put up electric fence to have our sheep graze the lawn so he doesn't have to mow. My ram has started butting DS - DS's fault for bopping him on the head gently. Just enough to make the ram hit back. DH's war on the chicken coop rats seems to be successful.

There is a significant outbreak of avian flu in our county. 3 of the 7 cases in the state are in our county! Coincidentally, this is where all Jenni-O turkeys are raised. The avian flu thing is a pretty big deal here.

You are sure having some challenges, and while they will pass I know that doesn't help a lot when you're experiencing them!

Sure hope things resolve for you soon - and exactly the way you want them to.

Hm, sounds like I should get a couple of turkeys when I pick up my chicks ...

I hope everything works out well with the baby.
for your son. I hope things continue to go well with him. I have nephews and cousins with those sorts of issues and I know how hard it is on the moms. Stay strong.

I went into labor minutes after posting last night. 9 hours later we were ready to go to the hospital and it stopped suddenly. I'm terrified of going to the hospital. (I've had 14 really bad experiences in L&D in 4 different hospitals. Trust me, "informed consent" is NOT alive and well.) Guess what... adrenaline from fear/anxiety stops labor. This is the third time in the last week it's gotten to the "time to go to the hospital" point and then stopped suddenly as soon as that decision is made.



My OB is pushing for an induction in the next week for a diagnosis he has not re-confirmed, and a diagnosis for which research does not show a benefit to baby. Not to mention the estimated due date is 4 - 7 days too early, but apparently doctors are in denial that conception date has anything to due with the due date!

ARGH! I know you are ready for this thing to be OVER- but when the baby is ready - not just on the doc's timetable!

Prayers that it works out the way you want it to.

i can remember when babies were born when they were ready and not at the doctors convenience. prayers that the baby waits for the midwife, she accepts you and all goes well. and I'm so tickled that DS is doing so much better.