Well, I had a lovely and distracting visit from my family, which has done wonders for my impatience. We went out to Red, Hot, and Blue for lunch before they headed back home this afternoon. I was definitely sad to see them go. It's always a party when the girls come to see me and this has been no exception. I basically got to forget about how I'm going crazy waiting for a baby to come out, and instead we went shopping, ate ice cream, and took pictures of Kaylee and Dan dancing.
Later this afternoon I went to the birth center again and got to visit with Laurel, the nurse who oriented me when I worked there. She's so sympathetic, but also spent a good deal of time laughing at my predicament, especially when I told her we had let everyone know that my water broke. We just don't handle it the same way at Special Beginnings, which means that very rarely, you get someone in my situation. All excited and ready and then... hurry up and wait.
At any rate, the baby showed off again on her NST--I've never seen a more beautiful and textbook-perfect strip. Laurel drew my blood again, and we looked over my previous results. My cultures were negative (which means no GBS--yea!) and everything has been exactly what it should be. David (one of the midwives) stopped in to see me while I was on the monitor, and his impression at this point is that my bag of waters had a leak, but has most likely sealed over. I'm basically back to being a 39wk primip, except that I still get monitored and blood drawn just in case.
On the labor front, no real contractions today. Here's hoping it happens soon anyway...
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