Nearing the Due Date

I know many of you know the feeling...the waiting feeling when your baby is due very soon. We too experienced that feeling, but our waiting was a little different. When you are pregnant you KNOW how you are feeling, you KNOW if you are getting close to going into labor. When you are adopting, you are waiting, but you DO NOT KNOW if you are close or not. We had a due date- October 29th, but we didn't have many more details than that.

Our birthmom would text us every once in awhile with updates, but the week prior to her due date she hadn't progressed much...she mentioned that if she hadn't delivered by 3 days after her due date that they would induce her, but that was about all we knew. The waiting continued...

Monday, October 29th (the due date) came and went with no news. BUT, Hurricane Sandy had appeared and was causing problems even into Ohio. Maybe, just maybe the storm would cause enough changes in the weather to send her into labor?!? We could only hope...

Tuesday morning we awoke to news of large power outages, flooding and high winds in the Cleveland area. Hmmm....what do we do? We wanted so much to just be in Ohio- even if it was just to wait so we wouldn't miss anything. But, our social worker said we couldn't head that way until our birthmom went into labor and was being admitted to the hospital. Bummer.

 

This is Lake Erie near Cleveland during the storm...

Around noon I had given into the idea that there would be no baby today...that is, until about 1:30 when I received a text from our birthmomther. She was in labor and headed to the hospital!!! YAY! Quentin and I frantically began throwing clothes in a suitcase while my Dad go online to search for flights for us. Um...did I mention there was a hurricane that caused all kinds of problems across the east coast? Cleveland airport wasn't accepting incoming flights until 3:00pm, flights through Chicago were out due to major airline delays and flights through Nashville were being cancelled due to snow. Great.....

My Dad eventually found us a flight leaving Kansas City at 3:20pm, but we had to go through Atlanta. I didn't even care- just get us to Ohio!! During our trip to the airport and during our layover in Atlanta we continued to receive text updates from our birthmom as she was progressing. Please just let us get there safe and sound!