Anytime Now....

Here I am two weeks out from my due date.... so I could go at anytime. After lots of thought and prayer and reading and classes and talking to friends who've had VBAC's we've decided to go for it. (For those unfamiliar with VBAC's its when you try to have a nonsurgical birth even though you've had a c-section previously...VBAC's carry special risks since it puts so much strain on the scar from the c-section... but they have great advantages as well). The hospital I'm delivering at in Berkeley has an 80% success rate in VBAC's which is encouraging and they are the high risk hosptial of the Bay Area, so I'll be in good hands. I'm just nervous about this whole labor thing... I've never felt a contraction before (Mia was breech so that's why we had the c-section)... so we'll see how it all goes :) But my doctor has scheuled a c-section for September 25 in case I haven't had our little one yet (since those having VBAC's can't be induced...). So that's the latest... we'll have a baby by the 25th at the latest. Although John jokes about how I should just do a c-section because of an expereince he had this past week.... It was quite the scare actually. John passed a kidney stone this week and that's considered to be the closest pain to child birth as it gets. So he has a whole new admiration for mothers. Thankfully he only had 45 minutes worth of pain and he's ok now... but boy was it scary!