Is it time?

Katie had two migraines last week. When the second one wouldn't go away on Friday, she decided to call her doctor and stop by to check her blood pressure. It wasn't high but it was elevated so she sent her to Labor & Delivery for monitoring. They were trying to get her migraine to go away, get her blood pressure down and do a 24 hour urine collection to test for protein which could mean pre-eclampsia. The only cure for pre-eclampsia is to deliver the baby. Graham would be 38 weeks the following day so would be fine to deliver at this point.

I've had Graham's bags packed for some time now but not our's so I begin to frantically pack for the two of us. Would today or tomorrow be the day we would meet our son? Although I wanted to meet him more than anything in the world, I would rather it be on a day where he comes on his own or is induced. I don't want the reason he has to come be from something potentially dangerous for Katie. When you match with a surrogate and buy them life insurance, it's just routine procedure but the fact that she's literally putting her life on the line for us is not lost on me.

She get to L&D and they put her in a room and check her blood pressure periodically. Now it's normal! They gave her something safe to help with the migraine and she slowly starts to feel better and then her blood pressure is even a tad low. God is so good! They hook Graham up to a monitor and find out really soon that my son is a mover and a shaker. The nurses have to come back in constantly to readjust the monitors because he moves from side to side every few minutes! I can't wait to see his little personality. Something tells me he is going to be on the go from day 1. After a few hours of monitoring he starts to throw some contractions about every 3 minutes. The nurses are a bit concerned but Katie tells them these are nothing really and what he likes to do. The doctor came by and checked her again and although her cervix was a bit softer, she wasn't any more dilated than she was at Tuesday's check-up.

Look at these contractions! He's been doing this for weeks now. Poor Katie!

They finally let her go home around 8:30 after spending the entire day in L&D. Blood pressure was fine, headache was so much better and Graham has no intention of wanting to be born just yet. She finished the urine collection at home and there was no protein! We are so thankful to God that the one elevated reading was most likely due to the pain from the migraine and not pre-eclampsia. Looks like we will be waiting a bit longer for this boy but after 10 years what's 2 more weeks right? ;) I think Katie would say two more weeks is a LOOOOONG time though.

We are leaving for NC on Saturday. She will be 39 weeks. We are hoping he will either come on his own or for an induction the week of the 20th. Either way it won't be long now before we are holding him in our arms!