WHERE IS THE BABY?
That's what everyone seems to want to know.
Well, judging from what my doctor said on Wednesday, and also by the vicious kicking that takes place at 3am, the baby is still safely inside my bulging belly.
No one wants this baby out more than me.
But as Steve constantly, and irritatingly, keeps pointing out, the baby isn't actually DUE until January 17th. That's Tuesday of next week.
The doctor said they usually let pregnant ladies go a week past their dure dates before inducing. For me, that would be January 24th.
I do not WANT to be this huge for that long. My mother, who is here helping out, doesn't want to be here that long with no baby. Steve doesn't want this limbo state to drag on any longer... We ALL want the baby to come within the next twenty minutes in an amazingly fast birth that will make the evening news. (let's face it - I'm in New Hampshire. If I had a 20 minute labor it would probably make the evening news. )
But knowing that the doctor's have giving me and END to this hugeness and the torture and the chaos that is my homelife at the moment helps my outlook a lot. I had been having nightmares that I would end up like that Queen who was pregnant for 13 months, and never actually HAD the baby... nightmare stuff, I tell you.
3 comments:
Dude - get yourself over to St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua. They would have induced you last week. I'm serious. They told me they regularly induce 2nd timers two weeks early. Of course, they also would have slapped you with a case of gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia, but you wouldn't have to go to term!! Next time, I'm going anywhere but there. Hell, I'll have the baby in my own damn bathroom if I have to.
Lay on the couch with foam earplugs in your ears. Stare vacantly at something regardless of what goes on around you. Wail like a banshee whenever you want something. Someone will bring it to you. If it isn't to your liking, throw it at someone or something & wail louder. Do this til your water breaks. Then relax. (Let me know how this tactic works.)
I want to hear the story about the queen who was preggo for 13 months but still didn't have a baby... That sounds fascinating!
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