Cora Lily Aitchison

Born @ 4:20 in the pm on December 27th.
7 lbs 12 oz, 20 in.

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Guessing game

So we're down to 6 days til I get induced. My tentitive scheduled time to start is 4am on the 27th. I have been dilated 1+ cm for several weeks, am 50% effaced and my cervix is "soft."

When do you think I will actually have my baby???

(FYI- my first two labors were 20+ hours on my own. #3 was induced and I had an epidural and it was about 18 hours. I wasn't dilated at all before starting labor with any of my previous labors.)

Eleven days and counting...

So I love to plan and waiting for a baby to randomly decide to come is stressful for me. I like to have a plan. Well, I kinda am going to get my way this time.

Tuesday I had my appointment and my CNM (certified nurse midwife) asked if I wanted to be induced. This was after we talked about several different that factored into the question. No, I don't really want to be induced. I was with Grant and it wasn't fun, although that wasn't fun period. (I was induced because of a massive headache that didn't go away for two days even with morphine. Fun, huh?)

Anyway, I don't love being induced, but I said YES and I am totally getting excited. Don't worry, there are real important reasons along with the convenience, but that's a long story.

So I will most like have Cora on the 27th, which is my 28th birthday. Party time!

It's getting closer...

We put up some Christmas decorations on Sunday! We are excited excited this year because for months we've been telling the boys that Cora (the baby) was coming around Christmas.

Basically this year Christmas means a sister and that's ok with everyone! (Well, Grant doesn't really get it, but when he sees flowers sometimes he says, "Cora's room?" Cute, huh?)

Grant was a menace while we were putting ornaments on, and I am sure that he will be mulitating the tree in the days to come, but it looks pretty right now.

Because of the fact that we'll have a new one at the house around clean up time, I am not getting a ton of decorations out, but what we did get out makes our house feel that much closer. Closer to Christmas and closer to having Cora. Yea!

Monday, the boys wrote letters to Santa. It was so cute! It made me realize that some of what I try to teach my children is making it into their crazy little heads.

Cleod's letter:
"Dear Santa, I would like a pillow pet, How to Train Your Dragon, 3 Bakugans, Magic hat, Star Wars Toys." Then he had me write: "If you have all of these, I'd be excited to see them, but if you don't I don't mind. Love, Cleod."

Ryan's:
"Dear Santa, You put presents under our tree." Then he wanted me to wrote that he wanted a Bolt toy with a collar. When I asked him what else he wanted he just said, "That's all." So cute!

Grant just scribbled...Santa will have to decode that, I guess.