For some time, while researching pregnancy and birth, I've poo-poohed the anxious mothers who start getting upset that the baby isn't coming, even before the 40 week estimated due date. So what can I say? My thoughts, hopefully nothing I said, were pretty insensitive mainly because I didn't know what they were going through.
Now, that doesn't mean I'm off to the midwife tomorrow to ask for an induction. I have a pretty well thought-out plan, that I have discussed with Ann and I will stick to it in the event that Ethan refuses to budge, which I think is unlikely anyway.
I'll be 40 weeks on Sunday and while I've never had a baby, for some reason I have a feeling this one isn't in a big hurry to come out. That could just be discouragement, but I've felt from the beginning he would be later than his EDD. Even still, I feel incredibly disappointed.
That's not to say it's all bad though. While I'm tired, and insanely achey, I still think I'm doing pretty well most of the time. I'd like to write out in detail all of the weird changes going on with my body right now but I don't think some of my readership would appreciate it much!
I have had some contractions that I 'feel' more than the regular, painless Braxton Hicks. Only a few have actually been painful, and a couple of times I've had several in a row, (spaced pretty far apart though) but they never turned into much of anything.
Soo... that's the update for now. It's just a matter of sitting around and waiting... and putting up with 5 million people per day asking me when I'm due and recommending ways to get labor to start :)
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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LOL! I know this is not funny, okay, and that is why I am apologizing for laughing!!!
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the "5 million per day" experts! I am not in the workplace everyday, but when I go anywhere these days I am asked the same drill. I do get tired of it, although I am always polite. Of course, I think I do get a bit of secret satisfaction out of messing up the normal line of questioning. "When are you due?" "Nov 19." "What are you having, a boy or a girl?" "One or the other!" "Oh, well... yeah, I guess it is one or the other!"
They don't even get around to asking names and so forth.
I guess this is a pretty normal line of questioning when we go out, in light of the conversation I overheard Jakin having with himself the other day.
"When are you due?"
"Nov 20"
"Are you having a boy or a girl?"
"One or the other."
And then the above was repeated at least 10 times while I was listening. :)
I woke up crying the morning I had Sarah. I was about a week 'overdue' and it was Sunday. I had rejoiced the week before, knowing that I wouldn't be coming back since I would probably have my baby. I cried to David. "I didn't want to go back to church this week!" After I got through my fit, we were lying there and both heard this loud, 'pop'. Next came a goosh of water, and then came the contractions. 7 hours later, we had a Sarah.
You should do a post on all the ways that you have been told to get labor to start. Since part of your readership is preggo, I think you would find an interested audience!