Ok, so I had a doctor's appointment on Monday and the doctor said I am 2 centimeters dilated and my cervix is thinned. He also said that the Strep B test came back negative and I don't have Pre-Eclampsia (I thought maybe I had Pre-E because my feet and ankles swelled up till the skin was stretching, and stayed that way for about a week! Fortunately the swelling all of a sudden went down to practically nothing and my feet and ankles look normal again! yay!).
Well Greg joked to the doctor that I was hoping for some complication so I could be induced early, and the doctor said that actually if by the 39th week I'm still pregnant, he would be fine with inducing. Do you know how tempting that is?! To be able to choose the day and not have to keep wondering when Toby will be coming? If I am still pregnant by then, I don't know if I'll be strong enough to wait for when the baby's ready to come. To induce or not to induce?
Hopefully this won't be an issue and I will have had the baby before then. We shall see.....
Thursday, September 27, 2007
It's been a long time since I updated this blog, and to those few of you who actually read this, I sincerely appologize. I've been so busy with work and school and everything else lately that posting here simply slipped my mind.
Ilene is doing pretty well. She has those normal end-of-pregnancy complaints that I listen to and then do nothing about (cuz, really, I can't stop her from having cramps, now can I?). For more info on that situation, see Ilene's blog. But the good news is that in spite of all those little things, she's also very excited (not just anxious) for the baby to come. Ilene gets these ideas in her head that she just loves...like painting a picture of the baby...that make this time pretty great for her, and for me as well.
We went to the doctor on Monday of this week and she was 2 cm dilated. And she's been having cramps since then, so when we go back next Monday, I suspect that she'll be quite a bit more dilated. We know that this doesn't really indicate when, really, the baby is coming, but it could be any time. Ilene keeps hoping for "today," whichever day "today" happens to be, but obviously, no luck yet. In the meantime I keep my cell phone on my body all the time for when the moment comes.
Work-wise, things are going quite well. I never anticipated the level of secrecy to which I would be bound concerning some things that go on in the city. Not the bad kind of government secrecy, e.g. Watergate, but the kinds of things that, for instance, developers want to do, but letting that get out would stop them from doing because of market forces. In a lot of ways it seems ridiculous the things they think will happen. But then, it also makes a crazy kind of sense why they want to protect themselves as much as possible.
I get asked about my thesis a lot. After a day spent in the BYU library last time we were in town, I was able to collect and then copy/print all of the articles that I'll need for the bibliography section of my thesis. That's a big step because that bibliography section requires a bunch of time spent reading and making notes and then writing the section. That process will also generate the question(s) that I'll be asking for my thesis. So that's the next step. Once that's done, I already have the data I'll be using, so then the testing to answer the question should go fairly quickly. Then there's the writing stage that is the bulk of the thesis. So, in short, the answer to the question is: I'm finally starting to make some headway into the thesis. No, Jon, I won't be finished in time to graduate in December (because I had to apply for graduation like last week if I wanted to be done, and I couldn't do that until I had defended my thesis, which isn't written yet.) However, I anticipate I'll be done with the thesis by the end of this year, and that will allow me to graduate in Spring.
Well, I think that covers just about everything.
Ilene is doing pretty well. She has those normal end-of-pregnancy complaints that I listen to and then do nothing about (cuz, really, I can't stop her from having cramps, now can I?). For more info on that situation, see Ilene's blog. But the good news is that in spite of all those little things, she's also very excited (not just anxious) for the baby to come. Ilene gets these ideas in her head that she just loves...like painting a picture of the baby...that make this time pretty great for her, and for me as well.
We went to the doctor on Monday of this week and she was 2 cm dilated. And she's been having cramps since then, so when we go back next Monday, I suspect that she'll be quite a bit more dilated. We know that this doesn't really indicate when, really, the baby is coming, but it could be any time. Ilene keeps hoping for "today," whichever day "today" happens to be, but obviously, no luck yet. In the meantime I keep my cell phone on my body all the time for when the moment comes.
Work-wise, things are going quite well. I never anticipated the level of secrecy to which I would be bound concerning some things that go on in the city. Not the bad kind of government secrecy, e.g. Watergate, but the kinds of things that, for instance, developers want to do, but letting that get out would stop them from doing because of market forces. In a lot of ways it seems ridiculous the things they think will happen. But then, it also makes a crazy kind of sense why they want to protect themselves as much as possible.
I get asked about my thesis a lot. After a day spent in the BYU library last time we were in town, I was able to collect and then copy/print all of the articles that I'll need for the bibliography section of my thesis. That's a big step because that bibliography section requires a bunch of time spent reading and making notes and then writing the section. That process will also generate the question(s) that I'll be asking for my thesis. So that's the next step. Once that's done, I already have the data I'll be using, so then the testing to answer the question should go fairly quickly. Then there's the writing stage that is the bulk of the thesis. So, in short, the answer to the question is: I'm finally starting to make some headway into the thesis. No, Jon, I won't be finished in time to graduate in December (because I had to apply for graduation like last week if I wanted to be done, and I couldn't do that until I had defended my thesis, which isn't written yet.) However, I anticipate I'll be done with the thesis by the end of this year, and that will allow me to graduate in Spring.
Well, I think that covers just about everything.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
No Baby Yet.....
Well, 23 days left until Toby's due date. I don't feel like he'll be coming early. I don't like waiting, but really, who does?
Now about the photo on the left. I found this stained glass design on the internet and I felt like painting it -- so I did. :)
This is actually painted in the center of my next painting I'm doing. I'll post it as soon as I finish it. :)
Friday, September 7, 2007
8 Months! September 2007
Ok, now that I have only 5 weeks left (or less), it feels like time has speeded up!
Ready or not, Toby's coming.
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