Doctor's appointment

I like to schedule my appointments in the mornings. That way, I can get them out of the way first thing and I don't have to 'patiently' wait all day in anticipation for the appointment. Well Brad's work schedule makes it to where if he wants to come, I have to schedule the appointment in the afternoon. We learned yesterday that afternoon appointments SUCK!

My appointment was at 3:30pm. The waiting room was slam pack FULL. We managed to find two seats together (with a table in between them) but there was a magazine and a sippy cup in one of the seats. I politely moved them to the table. Then, I looked up and directly in front of me were three seats. One seat had a hat and sippy cup on it, the second seat was empty and the third seat had a pumpkin seat sitting on it.....with a baby in it (I'm guessing about 4 months old)....with no mother in sight. The baby was screaming crying. I looked around and didn't see the mother anywhere.

About five minutes later, she came around the corner with her three year old hellian. She had been talking on the pay phone! And left her BABY in the waiting room completely unattended!! The sippy cup that was in my seat AND the sippy cup that was in the other seat both belonged to her three year old. The little boy had his pants hanging down almost to his knees...on purpose! He also was roaming around the waiting room, staring at people and getting into everything he possibly could. At one point, the mother noticed that he was missing. She screamed (very loudly in the very echo-y room) for him and when he didn't answer, she went looking for him....again leaving the baby crying.

Ten minutes later, she came back with the screaming kid and slung him down into a seat and ever so kindly told him to sit his *** down and shut the **** up. She then picked up the crying baby to give her a bottle. The kids finally stopped crying for about ten minutes. Then, the little boy saw people coming in and out of the front door and decided he was going to make a run for it. He jumped up and ran toward the door. The mother jumped up and ever so politely told him to get his *** back over to her. He looked back at her, told her NO and ran out the door. So THEN the mother slings the baby back into her pumpkin seat (that was sitting on top of the chair) and ran after the boy. The baby was NOT strapped in and was squirming around, screaming because she was obviously hungry. I came THIS CLOSE to getting that baby. If she would have been left alone for two more minutes, she would have wiggled out and fell onto the concrete floor. The mother finally came back, got the baby and left.

Can we say tramatic? At this point, an hour had passed and we were STILL in the waiting room. I was not happy. Fifteen more minutes passed by before we were called back. My blood pressure was good (shocking after the waiting room drama) and I only gained one pound! I'm so glad! Noah's heartrate was 148bpm.

Then my doctor came in. I told him about the all-day-every-day Braxton-Hicks I have been having and he said that it was a 'necessary evil' and they just helped push him down into position. Ok, I'm good with that.

Then as he was checking me, I asked him if I had to be dilated to be induced. He said, "Well if you needed to be induced because of toximia or another medical condition, we could do it now. But if you just want to be induced, you need to be closer to your due date and have a favorable cervix. You don't have either of those right now." [Insert rage of fury]. He said that he wouldn't induce me any more than a week before my due date and with the progress my cervix is making, I'm most likely going to deliver very close to my due date...not before.

I was NOT HAPPY. I know, I know. He needs to stay in until he's ready. I just need to be patient. The time will come when the time comes. It's almost over. BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Of course I want a healthy baby. But I am SO SICK of being pregnant. Noah will be full term tomorrow, so let the games begin. I am going to walk my legs off and have sex, sex and more sex. I am OVER IT! I am down for just about anything but the castor oil. Do yall have any other suggestions or sure-fire tricks that worked for you??