Still no outside baby

So Lily still has not made an appearance. She still has 3 more days until her eviction notice is up and a couple weeks after that until she needs to be out by the doctor's standards. Still I am getting impatient. Although, I don't think I'm getting as impatient as everyone else. I have a bunch of family, friends, and coworkers that are all so excited and wanting to hold and see her. Hopefully she will grace us with her appearance soon because I want to have her as far away from Christmas as possible. Also, if we have her before Christmas then a lot of my extended family from out of town might get to meet her since they will be in Ohio for the holiday.

At my appointment this past Monday there really wasn't all that much change. She did tell me that my platelet levels are really low and depending on how low they are when I go to the hospital that I might not be able to have an epidural. I told her that is actually kind of a good thing for me since I want to go natural. It just takes that option away so I know I have to do this on my own without and chance of pain relief. She did ask that if I didn't want and epidural did I not want to be induced. I told her that I did not want to be induced just so that I could have Lily when I wanted to (ie before Christmas), but that I was definitely open to induction if it gets too far past my due date or if something is wrong with either Lily or myself. The medicine that they give you to induce typically makes contractions more painful, I don't see why I would want to do that knowing that I wouldn't be able to get an epidural. That just doesn't sound very smart to me.

There have been some things happening the last couple days that usually happen shortly before labor starts. I won't get into the gory details because no one wants to hear about that stuff. I even wish I didn't know the details. Hopefully all this means that my next post will be about Lily's birth!