We’re not ones that immediately leap on board with a doctor’s suggestion. On our first pregnancy we bypassed the triple screen and the amniocentesis, which was offhandedly suggested as if it was required. Why bother taking the triple screen if it’s often wrong? Why bother finding out if there is a birth defect if we wouldn’t “abort” anyway?

So it was that after several months of worry from danger of preterm labor that now we found ourselves accepting the doctor’s recommendation to induce labor on Friday.

What was our reasoning?

Well, my wife has been having contractions for the last three and a half weeks. These are not Braxton Hicks. These are all out, wake you up panting, squeak out a slight moan contractions without thinning of the cervical wall nor dilation—in other words, not labor. These contractions have consistently been 3 to 4 minutes apart and sometimes 1 minute apart ranging in duration from one minute to two minutes. We figured when labor came it would be fast and hard—me being at work or church is still twenty five minutes too far for something like that so we booked the appointment a mere two days before her actual due date.

Yeah, I know, not much, but still acceptable enough that the baby has gained some weight, it’s near her due date and we have planned for it. Of course, I thank you for the torrents of prayer that you all have showered in our direction. I can say with a sureness that our faith has been mutually and individually strengthened and God willing your own faith has increased in such persistent service. Continue praying for my wife though since she plans to go at it without the epidural (she can’t stand the way it makes her feel). Pray for an easy delivery and a healthy child on Friday the 29th…Induction Day.

-r-

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