Hey, let me tell you what was fun: Driving to the hospital at 2:30pm when it's 102 degrees outside, with the windows down. It felt like a dadgum hair dryer, or maybe one of those Excelerators - the high-speed car-wash dryer that you try not to let peel the skin off your hands - blowing in the car.
Quick car update: The Goodyear place couldn't find the source of why the A/C isn't working, as it's apparently an electrical issue. So it has to go to the dealer. I could get into one dealership, but they didn't have a loaner car available, and with the timing of the doctor's visit, it didn't make sense. We'll have to deal with the car later.
Wednesday night Kami had contractions 4-5 minutes apart for the better part of three hours. We called the hospital, who told us to call the on-call doctor (who happened to be the Good Doctor) and ask him what we should do. He said to walk around for a while and see if they tapered off. They did. Unbelievably.
Anyhow, another trip to see the Good Doctor, another high blood pressure reading - this time 148/98. So we were sent home with explicit instructions to check her blood pressure and call back in the morning (this morning). It had come down, but not too far - still not enough to induce today.
That said, we have to go back to the Good Doctor on Monday, which will be about 39.5 weeks. If her blood pressure is high again, then it's likely they'll induce either Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.
Kami is dilated 3cm and 80% effaced. If you didn't know - and I didn't know - effacement is basically the thinning out of the cervix (or, as JustMommies.com unsettlingly puts it, "the ripening of the cervix"). The fact that Kami's cervix is 80% effaced means that it is currently 20% it's normal thickness, which apparently means that this show is about to get on the road.
The 3cm dilated is interesting, as she was dilated about 1.5cm last week. When Kami gets to 4cm dilated, she's transitioning from Early Labor to Active Labor. Had she been 5cm dilated, we would have been sent over to Labor & Delivery.
Regardless, Kami's mom got into town this morning, and I'm quite surprised her water didn't break as soon as she walked in.
So there you have it. Last night was probably the final night (for a long while, anyway) where it was just Kami and myself. I realized that this morning. Had I realized that last night, I probably would have done something cooler than "Fall asleep at 10:15pm with Dave Eggers' new book on my face."
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