Nope, still pregnant!

So, my guess was wrong. All my guesses with this pregnancy have been for some reason. I'm still uncomfortably pregnant and ready to get this wiggly little thing out of me! As of Monday, I'm dilated to a 1 (still) and 70% effaced. At least I've had better contractions since my pelvic exam Monday. I've had contractions all along with this pregnancy (since about 4 months), so they're nothing to get excited over, but they have kicked it up a notch (a small notch) this week. Monday they were going strong and Tuesday they started to peter out, so I decided to shovel snow for an hour hoping to induce labor. No luck. But the contractions got stronger for a while and I got sorer for a while (I didn't know that was possible!). Today I'm just frustrated. I really want to have this baby already! Partly because having a newborn is way more fun than being kicked all day and also because I'm really ready to start healing from all the soreness. I've carried this baby really low and it's made walking pretty painful. But I'll take that over back pain from carrying high any day!

By the way, thanks for all of your kind unchubby encouragements; I'm really mostly kidding. I was bigger with Ryker, but I've been doing pretty well with this one. It's just that pregnant bellies are so ALIEN looking! I mean look at that thing! It's just not normal! I mean, it is, but at the same time it's not.

On another note, I've got to vent a little (as if I haven't done enough of that already--hey I'm pregnant! Back off!) about school this semester. I tried to be courteous and responsible and give my professors a heads up about having a baby, but I've gotten the most NOT courteous of responses. One professor just said that he can't make special exceptions. C'mon! I'm having a baby! You can't give me a few days of leniency to miss class unpenalized or catch up? Isn't this a FAMILY oriented major? The other guy's response just kills me. He basically suggested that his class might be to difficult for me to take this semester and I should consider taking it later. Excuse me!!! I just completed 42.5 units in one year while accommodating my husband's equally rigorous schedule, raising our two kids, carrying a third child, and I got all A's and B's, and he's trying to tell me that his junior level course might be too much for me? The audacity! Then there's the English predicament. I was signed up for the class that I needed, but it turned out that Brice has to take a class that hour that he can't change. So I have to change mine. But all the classes are full and have been for over a month (I've been checking regularly). There are two classes that fit into my schedule (sorry, but an 8:00 class with a newborn just isn't going to cut it!) and they both happen to be with the same teacher. She's pretty much adding people at random--she passed a sheet around the classroom and had those that wanted to add sign it, so it basically depends on where you happened to be sitting that day. Oh, except for those that have special circumstances like being snowed in and having their plane delayed and therefore being unable to make it to class the first day like the rest of us. On the other hand, those of us that are in their last semester, trying to juggle kids, pregnancy, spouse's schedule, etc. get no special consideration. But if you were snowed in, come right in! Ugh! Okay, I'll stop. Hopefully two more people will drop the class by Friday and I'll get in. That's the best I can hope for.

Well, keep checking back! I'll either post again after my next Dr. appointment on Monday (or Tuesday; I might have to change it) or when the baby makes her debut--whichever comes first.