4 posts tagged “pregnancy”
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.
as of tomorrow, i am seven months pregnant. i have twelve weeks left to go. i am not ready to be this far along, but i want this baby to come out and this pregnancy to be over. obviously, pregnancy brings out a lot of conflicting emotions in me. and a lot of other weird things.
my sister-in-law had another precious baby girl on wednesday. when this little guy is born he'll have two cousins already. but they live 250 miles away, so i don't know how much he'll get to see them. i so want him to have a wonderful, close family like i had growing up. surrounded by cousins and aunts and uncles. but my family (and jared's) seem to be moving farther away every year, and i'm scared that he won't have the family i wish for him. how can i get everyone to quit moving away?
I think this belly is trying to take over the world. I don't know how big it's going to be in thirteen more weeks. But I'm guessin' Big. Real Big.
I tried to keep coming back. I really did. But every time I open this page I'm in Safari, and then I remember that if I want to compose an entry I really need to be using any browser BUT Safari. And rather than open a new browser I just close the whole thing and forget about it. Crappy.
But just to make us both feel better about the whole thing, here is my just-under-six-month-belly:
Really, though, pregnancy is awesome. Which is why I don't ever come on here. When I normally would have been roaming around the internet looking at baby animals, instead I sit on the couch and marvel at this little tiny boy doing flips under my belly button. I think he's going to be a karate-chopping-soccer-playing-tap-dancing phenom. If not he has some explaining to do.
Oh, and the baby animals? I still look at those. I just don't come on Vox. Sorry.
So back to this whole pregnant thing... The only down side is that I apparently have some minor condition that could cause me to bleed to death. Which is more serious than it sounds. What it really means is that my saintly, patient husband has to wait at least eight weeks to seduce me, at which point we have another ultrasound to see if we can put our baby-making skills back in to good use. Also, I can swim or run or do anything of value until then. But all of that comes second (and third and fourth) to the baby-making skills.
Plus, I'm not much of a runner, so who cares about that? So, for eight weeks we shall wait. Maybe the extra time I have from not getting down and dirty will get me on Vox more often. Probably not.
