late night of contractions and trip to the OB

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We had a late night full of contractions last night. They started in earnest around 10:30pm and continued pretty strong through 6am or so when Libby finally got some rest. I also caught a few hours of sleep between 2 and 4 or so.

Things slowed down a bit this morning and Libby’s getting intermittent contractions of varying intensity. We went for a walk, but that didn’t seem to get them started again.

Upon our trip to the doctor this morning, we found that Libby’s 4cm dilated and 80% effaced (compared with “fingertip” and 70% last Wednesday) which indicates lots of progress. Kudos to Libby on her weathering the contractions last night.

The doctor wanted to send us to the hospital, but instead we decided to get a biophysical profile of the kiddo so that we could head home to get contractions going again. Muppet scored an 8/8 on this test so we were allowed to go home and see if labor will get itself started before we go to the hospital.

We spoke with our Doula and she was very proud of Libby for her progress to 4cm as this means the contractions last night were substantive and strong. She reported that many people end up at the hospital at 2cm so we’ve already passed that milestone.

We got some lunch at Quiznos and then left as soon as we’d finished because Libby didn’t want to be grunting and grimacing and disturbing the other patrons.

We’re hanging out with the kiddos here at home a bit, and waiting for things to get moving again. For more up-to-the-minute information, check the Twitter feed (pulled in automatically on the right side) and Flickr (also pulled in on the right side of the blog).

my least favorite moments from NBC commentators on the olympics

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The announcers, “with the call,” covering the olympics often feel the need to fill the silence even though it’d often be better to hear nothing from them whatsoever. In fact, I’d happily listen to most things with them muted.

  • “It is so much easier to train for synchronized diving if you’re in the same location.” — Really? I’ll bet it’s a lot different from Basketball, Volleyball, and Rowing.
  • I don’t want to hear any more about the women’s beach volleyball crew and their wedding rings or their plans to have a family soon
  • I don’t want to hear anything more about the men’s beach volleyball crew and their haircuts.
  • I don’t really care how much Michael Phelps eats.
  • I don’t care how much Natelie Coughlin hugs the lane line, she’s a freaking world champion–you’d think she’s figured most of that out.

Commentators, please find something else to talk about — or, even better, just let us watch the games.

love: my blackberry; really mad at: AT&T

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My saga this far:

  1. Signed up Jan 24th on the web, selected plans and received no warnings
  2. Called to activate received phone, activated, and found voice worked, but BlackBerry did not (2/1)
  3. Called and spent 1 hour on the phone converting to BlackBerry Plan and splitting to two plans as this had been “the problem” and thus why my blackberry wasn’t functioning. (2/1)
  4. Called to find that I needed to exchange broken holster to local corporate store for replacement (2/15)
  5. Made trip to local store to exchange holster
  6. Called to discuss 2 service outages in first 3 weeks, received $10 credit and told I couldn’t receive another credit for 1 yr
  7. Called and spent 30 minutes on the phone to straighten out and receive $316 credit for bill in usage charges because 1, 2, and 3 above still didn’t have my account setup properly. (2/28)
  8. Called to discuss blackberry isn’t working after phone call #7– spoke with Monica Coan (monica.coan@att.com) (45 more minutes) She found that I was not even on a blackberry plan, but still had MediaMax (see 2-7) (2/28)
  9. Received a call 3/10 to say that some of the charges had been credited, but that it was still over my minutes (450). The credit still left $157 in overae charges. In this conversation, I was told I never needed to switch from FamilyTalk to my new plan, which caused all this problem to begin with (see #3).
    10. Upon examining my bill, i find that many of the minutes for which I’m being charged are calls to my wife (another AT&T customer who USED to be on my FamilyTalk plan) either way, these are mobile-to-mobile calls which I was assured are still Unlimited under my plan. At this point, I still owe 266.05 and $140 in usage charges (that aren’t valid)
  10. Called for 46 minutes and spoke to Chantelle about my call on 9. She agreed that the credit for #9 was not sufficient after spending 20 minutes manually counting up the number of minutes I spoke with my wife (~350-380 of 900 total minutes), which put an upper bound on my over charges of 100 minutes and $40. In fact, she gave me a credit for the whole thing, which I let her do because if you factor in other Mobile-to-Mobile calls I was at most ~30 minutes over, which I told her and I’d be willing to pay the overage for 30 minutes as this is what I actually incurred. (3/20)
  11. I realized today that I actually incurred another $102 of false charges in the 2/20-3/20 billing cycle that occured before I resolved #8. I will need to call again to try and reclaim this amount. On top of this, my actual statement for my “paperless billing” doesn’t show up, at all, for 3/20 or for 4/20. Why did we ever rely on paper? it’s so unreliable!

Where’s Muppet?

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As many of you know, Libby and I have been preparing our home and Muppet to join the rest of us in the pulmonary-active world. We’ve cleaned the house, organized most everything we own, and fulfilled every vision of nesting. The nursery’s ready. We’ve got 15 more days until our “due” date, but the standard deviation seems to be +- 2 weeks for 85% case. That means, Muppet could be here any day, or hang on for another 4-weeks.

When do you think Muppet will come? Let us know, send us an email or

As events unfold, we’ll be posting updates here, photos on Flickr, and on Twitter.