3 posts tagged “baby”
wow. hi! so it's been awhile. according to the subject of this post, i am forty weeks and five days pregnant. i don't know how much you know about babies, but there's this rumor that they're supposed to show up around forty weeks. i was due on monday. when i go out in public, people ask when the baby is due. i say he was due on monday, and they look confused. you mean babies don't always come on their due date? but it's the date that they were due! something does not compute.
well, this baby is apparently rebelling already against the insane compulsion i have to be on time for everything in my life, and he is teaching me patience from the womb. i get the last laugh, though, because we're evicting him via induction tomorrow morning. ha! so at 10:00 am i'll be in the hospital getting all pitocined-up and making this guy get the hell out of dodge.
it's been what i can only call an amazing 40+ weeks, and i already feel so lucky to have been through this experience. we had a few issues here and there, but i mostly loved every second of it. you don't realize how much you can love someone just for punching your hipbone and kicking your rib at the same time. you don't realize how awesome it is to feel a hiccup so close to your cervix that you're wondering if you're going to see a head next time you sit down to pee.
i can't explain how much i already adore this little person i've been growing inside of me all this time. and how anxious i've been to finally meet him. i doubt you'll believe me, but he really is the cutest, most precious baby in the universe. i'll provide photographic evidence as soon as he get out of there. i really can't wait.
kurt vonnegut up and died.
he was one of my favorite writers, a man i greatly admired. i read about it on yahoo news, and then again on wikipedia news. and when i went back not an hour later, both sites had removed it from their top headlines. i guess it wasn't as important as the broken leg of new jersey's governor, or some kid named sanjaya's hair.
vonnegut probably expected as much, so i don't know why it made me so sad.
but i've got a mid-term to take, and a baby in my belly to take care
of, so i musn't dwell on the loss of a literary icon or the
indifference of our news media. i hope you all are having a lovely
thursday. thank you so much for your kind words and congratulations. i
had almsot forgotten why i used to come on this vox thing, and your
comments were fantastic reminders.
i just had one of the loveliest easters on record. the whole weekend was wonderful. best of all, we finally got to tell both sides of my huge, extended family our fantastic news:
we're having a baby!
and now you know too. i am so unbelievably happy and silly and tired. ten weeks down and thirty or so more to go!
