I was thinking tonight about last February. It was cold, our street was a danger to anyone attempting to drive on it or cross it as it was covered in a sheet of ice about 4 inches think (lasted like that until April), we felt trapped, but we did make a trip to Omaha for "vacation". This vacation was our first trip to the zoo. My favorite exhibit was the rain forest. It was 80 degrees in there, humid and felt wonderful. When we came home, we were renewed and energized and got quite a bit of school work out of the way. I can't help but wish we had something like that this year.
No, instead I'm at the end of this pregnancy. I should NOT complain about it, as it has been a very easy pregnancy. I've not had a lot of morning sickness, discomfort, or weight gain. It's actually gone pretty quickly. So why in this last month does it seem like it has been an eternity, and these last 11 days to my due date feel like there is no end in sight? I'm so frustrated! We are all anxious to meet the baby, but he doesn't seem to be interested in joining us physically any time soon.
I spent the weekend in false labor. Contractions come every 2-4 minutes. I take baths/showers the contractions keep coming. I walk, I lay down, I drink water, I have taken homeopathic remedies to "help things along", I have tried all the old-wives tales of getting it to progress (with the exception of caster oil...just don't have that kind of nerve yet),and nothing happens!!!
Last Monday and Tuesday they admitted me to L&D overnight, to which my "labor" fizzled out by the next morning and I went home. I was 2-3 cm. dilated, 0 station and 50% effaced. I go in today to get checked. I appear to have moved backwards! I'm now barely 2 cm., -1 station and she didn't say anything about effacement but just the cervix is soft. I just want to scream.
I actually feel like a first time mom. I don't know what to look for, I can't tell real contractions from false ones, I can barely walk sometimes because the baby's head is so low. I'm hot, then cold, then sweating, then freezing. I'm tired so I take Benedryl that night and in the morning I usually feel better, until sometime after lunch and then the contractions start up again.
Just do something already!!! Anything!! Let me know this isn't in vain!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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Wow, sorry about the preggo blues! I hear ya, let's do this. I was pregnant with my 5th, in August, in Arizona. Not a pretty picture. I was almost 40 and 2 weeks late. What were they thinking? It was SO hard to get that 10 pounder out.
I am one of the teachers and the worship leader at Homemakers by Choice and was visiting you here because one of you suggested we swap links. Come visit our blog too at homemakersbychoice.blogspot.com. I will be in touch to see how that baby came out! Susan T
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