Yes, it's definitely hard waiting! Physically and mentally I get noticably worse every day. I even notice that I'm reacting to certain things just like I did after losing Beiron -- I see a TV show where a woman has just given birth and get a familiar twinge of depression and think "Why won't that ever be me?" Strange, but true.

We were in the hospital Monday to get checked out because I was having chest pains, wheezing and numbness in my left hand. I knew that these would be explained by my nasty cold and the pregnancy carpal-tunnel thing, but I they told me to come in and I didn't argue -- I figured, heck, they'll check on the baby. The doc said my cold could be delaying labor. It turns out I was already "2 fingers" dilated and she swept my membranes. But still, no labor yet, although now I'm feeling lots of SOMETHING, slightly painful, especially in the cervix area, and realize I've been feeling it for about a week. But if these are contractions, they're certainly not behaving themselves, as they're sort of like lasting 2 seconds and coming once every 10 seconds for an hour and I couldn't say where they begin or end...

So it's looking super likely that, after our induction assessment tomorrow at 10am, I will be induced by water breaking/contraction IV-drip on Friday morning at 7:15, and see what it's like to fight through a long and intense induced labor while fighting a nasty head and chest cold! I told DH I wasn't scared before but the induction sort of makes it scary. I figured I would have to try to explain, but he got it right away: "Yeah, I suppose it's like, instead of thinking you'll die suddenly and without warning, having a date set for your execution." Ha!