Exhaustion

Well, after another long week it looks like I am going to have to revise the poll on the right yet again. While I get ready to do that, let me ask for your prayers. We are pretty much just exhausted at this point. Things have been very atypical since Friday the 13th when we first went to the hospital. First time moms just don't walk around at 4cm. Every time we see a doctor they say, 'oh, you are 4cm... I wouldn't be surprised to see you back in L&D tonight or tomorrow'. We've been hearing that every few days for 2 weeks now. All that has served to do is fill us with hope and then nothing ends up coming of it. At 3 o'clock Thursday night/Friday morning Kass had high blood pressure and our OB had told her to go into the hospital if it got to a certain point... it was above that point so we went in. They kept us till 4:45am and sent us home. That doctor was kind enough to throw in that he'd never seen a first time mom stay at 4cm for 2 weeks, wasn't that thoughtful (note the sarcasm here). Friday night(the 27th) Kass started having some pretty painful contractions. They even got to 10-20 minutes apart for a while... but then they spread back out. We are tired of pointless trips to the hospital so we've decided we aren't going back until her contractions are 5 minutes apart for over 1 hour (as per advice of every doctor/nurse/nursing instructor we have asked) and they are bad enough that she is giving me evil stares and blaming me for doing this to her (the technical advice was that they be strong enough that she couldn't walk or talk through them). So now, after some 'progress' last night we have had a quite uneventful day. We are just anxious and flat out exhausted. Last night I went to bed around 12 and slept solid until 10:45 this morning. I know that doesn't seem like a stretch to a lot of people... but my normal sleep habits are to go to bed between 1 & 3am and waking up no later than 9:30 (naturally, not setting my alarm for that time). Kass sleeps about 12 hours/day lately it seems like and still seems pretty tired.

That said, for those of you in our Sunday School class please pass this information along tomorrow morning and put in a prayer request for us. Also, we do plan to come to the pot luck lunch as we are in desperate need of some face time with you guys.