Strike One....

Well first off, Everything is okay (isn't that a great way to start off a blog post?). Yesterday evening, Sarah started feeling pretty lousy and getting sick. So we called her doctors office and spoke with one of the on-call nurses. She had been having about 1 contraction an hour, her lower abdomen was pretty sore and she was not able to keep any food down. So the nurse told us to go to the hospital directly to Labor and Delivery. She even ended the conversation with "Good luck with your delivery"....

We didn't alert the masses cause we were pretty sure Morgan wasn't ready to join us yet. We got to Labor and Delivery around 9:45. Had to wait for the nurse to put Sarah into the computer, even though we had already preregistered weeks ago. Then they put her on 2 monitors to keep an eye on Morgan and to see if Sarah was having any contractions. After 45 minutes of monitoring they said the baby is fine, but Sarah didn't have any contractions. Then the staff OB check her, she's 2.5cm dilated, 80% effaced and the baby is at zero station. So they decided to send us home. The nurse was very nice and Sarah and I both thought she looked familure and the nurse even started asking why she recognized us but none of us could place each other. She even took the time to explain all the monitors and graphs to us and what they were looking for, as well as how to turn off the alarm should Sarah move and make it go off (which she did). Morgan didn't like the monitors too much she would go crazy every few minutes and kick them which you could hear as loud "thumps" over the rooms loud speaker.

After leaving the hospital around 11:30, We were both pretty hungry so we went to Denny's next to the hospital and both had All-American Slams. We got home around 1am brought in the few things we put in the car and went to bed. Around 3am Sarah got sick again, we've decided to lay low today and I'll keep my eye on her. She's got a doctors appointment tomorrow afternoon and we will find out whats going on then, as well as when they want to induce her. Our last appointment the doctor told us that she would only let Sarah go 1 week past her due date, so we will see.

Sarah has not progressed as far as dilation or effacement in 2 weeks, and she's not really showing any signs of full blown labor either. But from what i understand, one minute your sitting around the next your water breaks or the contractions start picking up. But Sarah and I are both starting to think she's going to be induced which doesn't bother us much but it still means 1 more week..

So far this morning Sarah's been able to hold down a couple pieces of toast and sprint and is sleeping on the couch with Charlie.

Thats all for now.
-James