Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Draggy
I feel like I have 20 lb weights hooked to my eyeballs. All I want to do right now is sleep. But I should take a shower. I have to go to the hospital at 1:00 for an ultrasound so they can check the amniotic fluid since I am 41 weeks pregnant today. Then I have to go upstairs to Labor & Delivery and do a NST (Non-Stress Test). The thought of exposing my giant belly, getting gel blurped all over it, and having monitors attached to me does nothing for my current mood of just wanting to be left alone so I can sleep.
I lost my mucous plug this morning. I know it sounds gross...it was kind of gross, actually. But it is the first sign I've had at all that labor might actually happen on its own sometime soon. I'm trying not to get too wound up, though, because everything I've read about it says there's no guarantee that labor is imminent, although for some women, they went into labor shortly after they lost theirs. So who knows. At least it's something.My birthday was very anti-climactic this year. I swear, my whole family forgot. My friends sent me birthday cards and phoned me. My family, on the other hand, kept asking me if I was in labor yet. My aunt Susie was the only one who remembered on the actual day, and she came from San Francisco to deliver a birthday gift to me. So I've been feeling unloved and sorry for myself. My mom has made plans for she & Daddy to go to San Diego 2/1 - 2/4. She hasn't changed her plans in spite of the fact that the baby has not yet arrived. This further added to my grumpy, too-small-bladder state. "Fine," I told her. "You may very well miss the birth of your first grandchild."
::SNIFF::
Yes, I'm having a moment. Chalk it up to a belly the size of the Capitol Hill Dome, a bladder that can't hold squat, and feeling like I'm going to be pregnant the rest of my life. This too shall end, as they say. It just doesn't happen to feel like it.
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