It is so interesting to be pregnant. This is my 4th well, actually 5th if you count a miscarriage, time being pregnant and although most of the beginning and middle parts of this pregnancy have been predictable according to my previous ones, this last little while has been foreign to me. I am in uncharted territory. I am about 38.5 weeks pregnant and find myself unsure of how my body will react to impending labor. First off, I have never made it this far before (not that I am complaining..since when do pregnant, exhausted, hot, huge swollen women complain??), I have delivered at 38 weeks, 36 weeks, and 37.5 weeks. So this is what it's like to wait for a baby come, fun. I am usually surprised and caught unprepared. Secondly, I am nauseous all over again, every.day. I am a little bitter about the last one, i feel I paid my dues the first 5 months of this pregnancy. Third, I am actually prepared. I have all the projects done I was hoping to finish, burp rags, blankets, baby clothes washed and put away. I have also been nesting something awful and would like to brag publicly if you don't mind!
Went through ALL of the kids clothes bins and sorted, reorganized, threw out.
went through all the kids toys and " "
Picked up a few new baby projects like a nursing cover I am halfway finished
Reorganized my closet
Reorganized hali's closet
Reorganized madi and tyce's closet
Reorganized craft space
Reorganized laundry room
made freezer meals (which I am slowly been using because I feel no desire to cook in the heat)
Finished getting Madi ready for kindergarten (clothes, shoes, backpack)
Made some hair bows
Yeah, I have been nesting a little. So here I wait, while contractions have been my friend every evening for 2 1/2 weeks now ( tricky little suckers), and nausea and all around crummy feelings. I really don't mind going to my due date or past, I just wish my body would stop practicing labor and just wait for it you know? Did all your pregnancies go the same? Has anyone experienced a varying off the straight and narrow???
Marci, I am so sorry you feel crummy!!! YES, you most definitely paid your dues already! You've definitely accomplished an impressive deal of nesting....
ReplyDeleteI'm in a different boat than you....my babies don't come early. They make me and my doctor THINK that they will, cause I dilate to about a 3 two or three weeks before...but then I stay there. Dallin was induced two days early because Landon had to leave for law school, but I have no doubt he would have stayed put until his due date, maybe longer! I went into labor with Susie, bless her obstinate little heart, at 12:30 AM the day after her due date. 30 minutes after her due date, I go into labor. She was making a point, I'm convinced. :)
Hang in there, and keep us posted!!!!