Don't Bet On Natural Labor Inducers

I know, I know, a baby will come when they're ready. Not when I'm ready. But, I still attempt to get the baby coming at about 39 weeks every pregnancy.

However, despite the methods used, baby is still sitting pretty in the warm, dark recesses of my uterus. All efforts haven't been wasted though, my cervix is dilating. I just haven't had one of those "this is it" contractions.

So for your future reference here are a list of natural labor inducers that have not put me in labor:

1) Eating an entire fresh pineapple

2) Eating eggplant parmesan

3) Castor oil on the belly with a warm towel

4) Sex

5) Accupressure points: web of hand, 4 fingers widths above inner ankle bone, outside ankle between ankle bone and achilles. Rub hard.

6) Bazillions of mg of EPO :D

7) Jump roping

8) Running up hills with your kids

I've been at about 3-4cm for a week and effacement is 80+%

The "official" due date is March 3rd. My past births were: Haley 6 days over, Haven 1 day early, Paisley 9 days over.

Not SuperWoman

Apparently I had successfully deceived myself into believing that I was SuperWoman in the flesh. Today, of course, reality knocked me off my high horse.

Yesterday wasn't a terrible day with morning sickness, it was actually a little better. But last night I was kept up by the worst heartburn ever. All I could think (well besides "you have got to be kidding me!") was this is the most insane symptomatic pregnancy ever.

So I make it through the night propped up on 3 ft of pillows only to discover that the morning sickness was going to be the worst ever today. I really was at a breaking point. Here I have 3 amazing children who deserve the best and I can barely stand up straight.

I called Michael and broke down. I mean sobbing. Uncontrollable. I am so enormously blessed to have a husband willing to come home from work to take care of me.

I could handle that my husband now knew that I was not SuperWoman...who am I kidding? SuperWoman would never repeatedly leave dinner out until 10pm...he already knew that. But he was taking the kids to my mom's for the afternoon.

An awesome blessing but now my mom, dad and siblings see that I am incapable of handling it all. I feel like a loser. It is my job to watch my children yet I sucked at it today.

I am in the 9th week and praying this ends soon. Please, God?