15 long days after his official due-date, Adrian finally decided to join the world :) He was born on March 8th 2010 at 6:09 am - 3.670 grams and 53 centimeters of pure perfection :)

The birth was not pleasent (I’ll tell you about it later), but both Adrian and I are doing very well afterwards. We’re currently in the hospital, and I think we can go home on Thursday (can’t wait!). I’ll post more about my little wonder when we get home :)

I’m very glad there’s only a 5 minute drive between our house and the hospital! :P We went in and got started on a new CTG-test. While the test went on, the hospital decided that they wanted to wait ’til tomorrow with the induction because the floor was so busy, which was fine by us. However, as the test progressed, I started to notice that I had started to get contractions. Hopefully everything will progress by itself during the day - if not, we’ll be back at the hospital at 9am tomorrow morning!

A quick update: as far as I know, there’s not been any progress - I feel pretty much just the same as I did yesterday morning. We’re going to the hospital as soon as Tony’s gotten himself a shower and some breakfast. I have no idea what to expect, but the women I spoke with on the phone said they had time to “help us out”. We’ll just have to wait and see!

Yes, you guessed it: we’re back home from the hospital and there’s still no baby :P

We arrived at the hospital 20 minutes before our appointment, and a nurse sent us straight to a room where I was told to lay down on my side and got strapped with devices to do a CTG-test (measures the baby’s heart-rate and movement). We were told they would run the test for 30 minutes, and then the nurse left.

After an hour, we were still by ourselves, listening to the constant beating of Adrian’s heart (mostly 135 beats per minute, but it ranged from 110 to 170). It appeared that they’d forgotten about us, and since I was starting to struggle to keep control of my over-filled bladder, Tony went out to get the nurse. She came in, unstrapped me and I could go pee. It was heaven ;P

After my toilet-break, we met up with a really sweet girl-doctor. She told us that the results of the CTG-test were perfect, and far better then what was normal 13 days after the baby’s due. We then proceeded with an ultrasound, that told us that he’s about 3.600 grams, 34 cm in diameter around his head (97mm from ear to ear), I have a lot of amniotic fluid and he’s definitely a boy ;P Perfect results again! Then she needed to check my uterus - it was not pleasant - but it showed that I’m dilated with 2 cm, so something has started at least!

They were very busy at the hospital today, and since everything’s as great as it is, she didn’t want to proceed with the induction just yet. The plan now is for us to call back tomorrow morning, and if they’re less busy by then, then we’ll get the process started. Unless something happens on it’s own before we get that far!

So more waiting for us. How fun ;P

We’re now 12 days past Adrian’s due-date, and yes, you guessed it: he’s still MIA. Neither of us have much faith that anything will happen during the night, so the next step now is tomorrows appointment at the hospital. I’m nervous.. anxious.. scared.. I have absolutely no idea what to expect or what will happen, and it stresses me out. Thankfully Tony’s his normal cool and calm self. If he hadn’t been, I’d probably go completely bonkers ;P

So maybe, just maybe, I’ll be a mum by the next time I post anything. Who knows?!

Since it’s Tony’s birthday and he’s the biggest cookie-monster I know of, I decided to make him a chocolate cake! I got this recipe when I was in elementary school and I absolutely love it! It’s fast and easy to make, and it’s really moist and delicious.. I can highly recommend you trying it out :)

Chocolate cake:
250 grams of butter
7 deciliter of sugar
2,5 deciliter of Kefir-milk
2 tea-spoons of natron (baking soda)
1 liter of flour
3 table-spoons of cocoa
4 eggs
2 deciliter water

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees (celcius).
• Melt the butter and mix with sugar.
• Add Kefir and natron.
• Sift the flour and cocoa in and mix together.
• Add water and egg and mix ’til it’s a smooth batter.
• Pour the batter into a pan and bake for 30 minutes in the middle of the oven.
• Let the cake cool off before you add the frosting.

Frosting:
100 grams of butter
250 grams of icing sugar
2 tea-spoons of vanilla sugar
3 table-spoons of water
2 table-spoons of cocoa

• Melt the butter.
• Mix together all the dry ingredients and add the butter.
• Mix into a smooth batter.
• Pour the frosting on the cake and spread it evenly.
• Add additional decoration if you feel like it :)

P.S.: This cake is good for freezing! It doesn’t taste just as good as a fresh one, but still delicious :)

It’s Tony’s 30th birthday today! He’s at work now, has a meeting afterwards and plan on going to the gym tonight, but I’ll still try to do something special for him when he is home! I have two presents for him and I plan on making him a chocolate-cake! I’m sure he’ll be more exited about the cake then of the presents ;P 

I wish I also could give him what he really wants (Adrian!), but that’s unfortunately not my decision! I felt a bit bad for him this morning. I woke up when he got out of bed (5:30am!) and he put his hand on my belly and said “Get out!” with frustrated and somewhat sad voice. He wanted to be a dad before he turned 30 so bad.. and he wants Adrian to come in general anyway! If I had any control of it, I’d push him out in a second! 

Happy birthday sweetie - I love you with all my heart! <3

We’re having a really gorgeous day today - there’s not a single cloud in sight on the sky and the big bright sun is starting to get a lot warmer then it has been for months. Sitting inside the four walls of this house waiting for Adrian to arrive is starting to drive me mad, so I decided to walk the 1,5 km to the grocery-store to do some shopping. I’m really glad I did so, ’cause it really gave my spirit (and my mood) a good boost! I really needed that :)

And now it looks like I need a nap ;P

I had hoped that the check-up with my doctor on the 19th would have been the final one, but Adrian still doesn’t want to come out and so I headed over to our midwife this morning for our 13th check-up. We’re both doing very well, although I’m puzzled by the fact that I haven’t gained any weight at all. I wonder if Adrian’s gaining weight or not!

Our midwife set us up with an appointment at the hospital Saturday morning. If Adrian doesn’t decide to come out on his own, they’ll probably start inducing labor then. I’m hoping something will happen today or tomorrow so that Tony can get his wish to be a father before he turns 30 fulfilled (his birthday’s on Wednesday), but Saturday’s not that far away either!

They claim that hard physical activities can make your water break, but that’s obviously not the case for us ;P It snowed this morning and our street was plowed while I was at my dads eating dinner, so I had to shovel a big pile of snow to get my car into our driveway (Tony’s at work). Exhausting, yes. Hard to do with a big belly, yes. Water breaking, no.

Waiting is really hard! Physically I’m doing great, can’t complain about anything there, but not knowing what will happen and when is stressful and mentally exhausting (for me). I wish there was some kind of sign that would tell you when, so that I could get a little heads up and stop being so uptight ;P