maybe it is cause they are guys...

I think we've established my mom is a bit crazy...

guys are crazy too. I swear I need more normal sane people in my life. xD

Or maybe just less children. I think I would be less crazy if I had less children. >.>

I think I agree with that last statement at least ><;; My kids make me crazy... They are fighting over water bottles ><;; I don't know WHY I don't care why... I just want the screaming to stop before my head explodes ><

Sakura was up last night with a cough again. It drove Scott crazy, he couldn't sleep (I was super tired to I fell right asleep...woke up a few times but it had nothing to do with her) so she's staying home today. At least for now. I'm keeping an eye on her...and will take her back to school when she stops listening to me and decides that she's better and wants to play.
Aaron also has speech today. >.< My morning is so shot.

And to top it off babies parents are wanting to bank babies cord blood...and so they have to send me a kit or something to do that, and they haven't done it yet and so sometime this morning they are going to be calling me to talk about it and I'm just like. wtf. lol. Cord blood banking is sooooo insanely expensive! Like seriously, I think when I was looking into it with Sakura they wanted like $50,000! D: I'll uh deal with any possible genetic/life defect kthx. I worry about baby now...he's going to have such doting do-everything-over-the-top parents. I don't know why it makes me worry...I just...he's not going to have a very 'normal' life until baby #2 arrives and they relax.

that is ridiculous how expensive that is! If they want everyone to save it than they should make it cheaper. Sheesh.

I just talked to him on the phone and he said that he was told that it was something like $1000...but I know that isn't the case, or at least I don't think it is because the paperwork I had gotten about it FROM my doctor when I was pregnant with my first daughter had it being horribly expensive. *shrugs* They want me to ask my doctor about it at the appointment tomorrow. I don't see why they don't just call the office and ask for themselves because I know I won't ask the same questions they would ask. :/

1K is still nothing to sneeze at. People having a baby don't usually have that much to spend because they are using it to get stuff for the baby.

To these guys 1k is something to sneeze at. >.< Apartment in New York, house out in the Hamptons, and hiring a surrogate to have their baby. I looked it up online out of curiosity yesterday, with the agency we met through, it's costing them almost 100k to have this baby. Granted it might have included multiple cycles for the transfer, and ours only took 1 try, but still. It was a hell of a lot of money. I could almost pay off my house with that!
If it were me, 1k would have been more than I could afford...but I swear I remember it being some astronomical figure and just going :gonk: at the thought of people having the money to do that. ><

wait, what? Are you a surogate? I'm confused.

Yeah I'm a surrogate. :3 I get pregnant too easily so I'm using my powers for good instead of creating an army of mini me's to take over the world.

Okay, now I understand the earlier comment. Well that a cool thing you are doing. One way to use you talents ;p

lol Thanks.

I have a doctors appointment today with the doctor that they just added to the firm. >.> I have yet to meet her, so it will be funny if she is the one that ends up delivering the baby. I don't really want to go. I'm worried that if she checks me and I haven't progressed, that the parents will decide against coming out this weekend. And I'm worried that if she checks me and I have progressed that I'll go into labor later on today or tomorrow. I don't like either scenario. I'm still not even sure if the parents have decided to come out this weekend. I'm assuming not since they haven't told me anything beyond "they're ready" aka, their bags are packed, the car seat is in the car and babies bag is packed. I'm still hoping to convince them to drive out here before I go into labor so that they don't miss the birth of their baby. >.<

How far away do they live? I'd love to give you some supportive words that you'll have time but with babies you just never can tell. All I can really say is hope for the best and keep as calm as possible. Oh, and don't ride in any jouncy pick-up trucks which is how I went into labor ;p

My labor tends to be sex induced. >.>

I live in North Carolina, they live in New York. It's anywhere from 8-10 hours driving, which is what they plan on doing, and my labors have been getting shorter and shorter...this time I've already started dilating, which isn't something that had happened to me before so I'm even more anxious since I know it will take even less time! D:

OMG 100k O_o ouch... that WOULD pay off my house and would leave enough to buy a nice new car even!!!

I know right? I'd be so happy with 100k.

Sooo I'm at almost 3 cm...and we're looking at inducing next Thursday/Friday if I don't have the baby before then. I'm still thinking I'll have the baby this weekend though. And the parents are kinda...not listening to me on the the possibility of this baby being born sooner rather than later since they met a girl at their baby class that was at 5 cm last week, and still at 5 cm last night for their class. So I'm like :headdesk: It's her FIRST baby. It takes longer, me being at 3 already is a good sign that baby is coming SOON. I don't think labor will be more than 6 or 7 hours with this one...so they're totally going to miss it if I can't convince them to get their butts down here!

I'd try to gently suggest that to them :/ you can tell them that normally labor gets easier with each progressive pregnancy... ><;; This is your 3rd pregnancy ><;;

I'd be like "Are you going to chance that my labor is going to take a long time (and possibly miss it all together) based on knowledge from a first time mom?"

I'm about ready to. My mom said I should do the same thing. I'm really getting ticked off that they're not listening to me. :/ I know my body better than they do, and I know my body better than some random woman having her first kid.

More than that, I had sex last wednesday and got a contraction. I've been avoiding it since. I HATE avoiding it. I'm one of those pregnant women. haha. So we'd decided that we would wait until tomorrow evening if I go into labor tomorrow night they're totally screwed and they have no one to blame but themselves. >.<

Yeah... I'd try to call them tonight and give them warning... If they choose not to listen they miss out on the magic ><;;

lol, magic.

And if something does go wrong and I'm that 1/300 person who has their uterus scar rupture they'll have even less time to get there becasue I'll have to have an emergency c-section. It's just so mind boggling that they don't want to listen to me. Okay, one of them doesn't and I think he's semi okay with missing the birth. It's the other one I'm going to attempt to work on tonight because I know he doesn't want to miss the birth of the baby. >.> I'll play all the cards I need to. I don't know if I'll go so far as going above their heads to one of their moms...but i've been considering it!

If you don't I'll tell your mom on you! ROFL... I think that actually may work especially if one of them (or both) isn't an only child... Maybe mom can explain that births generally have a way of working a certain way... My mom's births started quickly... 4 hour labor with overdue fraternal twins... And got progressively shorter... My youngest brother being born with less then an hour of labor pain... It kind of scares me cause I was having labor pain for only about 2-3 hours before Mikes was born and only about an hour with Sean... And induction is suppose to make contractions more intense so I am worried I am going to feel labor pains with my next and not have enough time to get to the hospital! O_O;; Cause I really am hoping to have at least ONE non induced labor!

I heard that induction medicines make it take longer too. Jaz is a wonder woman when it comes to birth. o.o

I called my counselor and she's going to call them tomorrow morning and advise them that I would feel better if they would fly out for a visit this weekend 'just in case'. Hopefully it works, I know they're not fond of the agency right now because of the legal issues from a couple weeks ago, but I'm really hoping that hearing it from someone else will help change their mind. *fingers crossed*

You've already had twins which means you may as well be a baby-vending machine. My mom had twins first and I came so fast that the doctor almost didn't make it in the room. It was just the mom and the nurse and the nurse had to shout at him "She's crowning!" to get the doc to hurry up.

You could just have sex and then call them with a white lie that you are in labor. False labor happens so if it's a false alarm you can't totally be to blame ::innocent blink::

I didn't have the twins vaginally though. But it did only take me about 4 hours to get to 6 cm before they started prepping me for the surgery. I'm sure I made it to 8 by the time I got into the room. >.<

I think I might do that if they don't believe me or my counselor. She also advised me against telling them that I was going to attempt to induce it on my own. While I can see her point, since if anything happens after baby is born, there is a chance they will blame me, there is nothing in my contract saying I can't have sex other than the two weeks before and after the transfer. So legally there's nothing they can do against the possibility of my having sex and going into labor this weekend.

True - you don't want to get into any kind of lawsuit. Just take care of yourself and the baby and if they don't make it then it won't be your fault. You have done your best to get them to listen to you so if they miss out on the birth than the fault lies with them. You are giving them a healthy beautiful baby and don't need to babysit the new parents as well.

Do you all know what the baby is, yet, or if they picked out a name?