BoB!!!!!!!! Updated

BoB is definitely showing signs of wanting to be released!! Stay tuned!

Some days are better than others. Yesterday was a frustrating one for 2 people who want to be parents so badly. Right now...Today!!! The good news is that tomorrow is another day and the baby will definitely come soon.

Pregnancy, labour and birth is one of the most miraculous events known to man, but if you are a "not to posh to push" person and a control freak to boot (who me??? lol)....add a grain of first time ignorance..or second or third, now that I think about all the ones born in cars or at home or even bathroom floors... and it can also be the most mind wracking. The problem is that no two people are the same. Everyone has their own story... as unique as the new little person that eventually emerges. At the same time, we all recognize bits and pieces in other parent's journeys. But that doesn't make it the same.

You will remember details of the day so vividly...like what you had for dinner...Chinese Food with Jamie, turkey with Kirsty...although to this day I cant figure out why I would have possibly been having turkey on a Monday night a week after Easter?? lol and hamburgers with Scott... and you will remember almost every single thing that happened in that delivery room (albeit in a rose coloured haze :-)) and you will become an absolute expert.... but only about your own experience. And anybody that tells you differently.... is wrong. Even me!

Yes, not even your own...all knowing Mother can tell the real time from the pretend times!! Oh she may fall into the trap....thinking that, "yes...I recognize that symptom..this must be it" ..but she too will come out smelling like dog poop (sorry Lee) and be unceremoniously be put in her place. It is just the nature of the event.

We cant control it. We cant do anything to make it better, faster, shorter, longer. You have heard the stories...no amount of taking mineral oil, doing squats with an old fashioned heavy typewriter, chasing after 2 hyper older siblings, eating spicy foods...absolutely nothing..could make a baby due the 3rd week of March arrive before the second week of April. But the important part was that he finally did arrive...maybe not in the month I wanted or the dated I wanted and maybe with very little warning and maybe a little overdone...but in the end...with nothing I would have changed.

So it isn't a test that you can pass or fail...there is nothing you can do. But wait. And for the you and I's of the world that patience passed over...this is the hardest part. There is one thing that I can tell you with absolute surety...the excitement will be even greater when it really is time.