The Latest

Here's the latest: Jessa's almost fully dilated...it's within "a sliver." The plan is to do what's called passive labor for about another hour, which basically means let the uterus do the pushing for you. That should move him further down the line, and make the pushing effort that much easier. There is now widespread consensus that he should come before the next nursing shift change (7pm Mountain Time). We're already on our third nurses' shift, so this would be welcome. Our current nurse is a force of nature and we love her, and we don't want to switch again.

Due to (inexplicable) popular demand, here is a photograph that includes me. My job for the first 17 hours or so was labor coach...massaging, breathing help, etc. But once the epidural came around, I lost my job. So I switched to blogging and ice chip dispensing. Ice chips are at this point the only thing Jessa is allowed to eat (they cut her off from the popsickles), so I sit by her bed and feed them to her with a spoon.

So now you know.

I don't know how many more updates there will be...the next post may be a birth announcement. Of course, we've now been at the hospital for 23 hours, so we've said that several times before.