The Real Deal - Part I

Jen had her regular weekly checkup today. Because of our weekend episode they checked on her BP and did another biophysical profile of the baby. This time they couldn't get the baby to move (even though it was moving like crazy the night before when I was reading to it). The doctor said that she would feel much better if the baby was on the outside, so Jen had to go straight to the hospital to start the induction process.

Jen called me a bunch of times (our signal that it was go time) but I was RIGHT in the middle of explaining my work project to a bunch of people. At the first available time, I said "Yeah, I gotta go. My wife's having a baby." and I got someone else to cover for me.

I took the next train home and had Jen's dad pick me up and take me to the hospital. Of course we got a flat tire, but everything worked out.

When I got to the hospital it became apparent that this was not going to be an immediate thing. They gave her 2 doses of something to prepare her for induction, but each one takes 12 hours. The first one was at noon, so we will have to wait until noon tomorrow before we will induce.