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Still Waiting on this Baby

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2 Days to Go…

Labor Symptoms:

Looks like I will be perpetually one day behind on these updates.  Well, first things first — I probably don’t need to say this, but still no baby.  The good news is that my back pain issue has significantly improved.  After consulting my father-in-law (who is a doctor.. because that would be weird otherwise), my OB, my birth class instructor, and the entire world wide web, it seems the issue was the baby’s position on my spine/sciatic nerve, and my only option for reprieve was to somehow get him to move his baby ass to a different position. Continue reading →

Down to the Wire

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The REAL countdown is on.  I hope.

3 Days to Go…

Labor Symptoms:

Yesterday (September 18th) was the beginning of the 3-day countdown to my due date.  Unfortunately, I wan’t able to post anything because I was in actual debilitating pain for the entire afternoon, evening, and night.  Also unfortunately, as evidenced by this post, that debilitating pain did NOT result in actual labor or a baby.  The good news is, I guess I was right — I wasn’t about to get away with feeling perfectly normal then suddenly go into moderately painful but predictable contractions then have a baby within a few hours.  So, as I sit here and write this I am not in labor. Continue reading →

Waiting on a Baby

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Welcome to my (soon to be) awesome baby Cherkasky blog!  This is my first venture into the world of blogging since my avid Melodramatic and MySpace days.  Facebook has made me lazy, but I thought the impending arrival of our first baby was a good reason to get back into this.

That brings me back to one important point — the wait for this baby! 9/11 marked 10 days until my due date, so that’s where I began.   For everyone wondering when this kid is going to get here already, follow along with my 10-day Countdown to Baby.  And let’s all hope that I don’t have to edit my “10-day countdown” to a 20-day.