Oppps, I had it all planned out. I was going to schedule a post to go live on Sunday signalling my ONE MONTH LEFT celebration. Yup, I forgot. The pregnancy stupids, I haz them. Oh well. The thing is, I’m not sure I’ll make it to the end. I feel so off and heavy and achy and crampy, it has to be soon right? The power of positive thinking or something like that. JUST SAY IT’S SO!
There are reasons why I’d LOVE to be done now. Of course there are reasons why getting to my due date would be equally awesome. Let me list them now (hahahah as if you cared).
Reasons To Be Done:
- I am excruciatingly tired. I can’t sleep because I can’t get comfortable and even after I do, 45 minutes later I have to pee again. Naps are pretty much gone for now.
- I’m so sore. Most of it, I think, has to do with being on bed-rest (though THAT’S OVER NOW!!!). The baby has dropped so things that weren’t affected before have started to hurt.
- I just want to be one person again! Everyone has heard me say this. I know that I’ll have a newborn to hold and take care of, but she will live on the outside….where I can put her down!
Reasons To Wait:
- I want the girls to have their own birthdays, birth months even. Ideally I want to get past Alexa’s party so I don’t have to call it off or bring a teeny baby with me.
- I want breastfeeding to be easy this time, and the longer my body has to bake, the more the hormones will work together (in theory).
- As small as it seems, I want to KNOW that my body can indeed carry a baby to term. I want to feel like I reached the end and didn’t “go early”. That said, in a few days I’ll be considered full term at 37 weeks so that’s not too far off.
So there they are, my reasons for and against getting the baby out now. Ha, as if I have a choice in the matter. While all the precautions keeping me from preterm labor have been removed (no more shots, now more bed-rest) it’s not as if that means I’ll go tomorrow.
I'm Amber, a mom of one - soon to be two, a partner to Peter, a neat freak, an organizing junkie, a lover of craftiness but a complete wanna be, a photography admirer, a writer, and a friend.
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Birthday months! I SOOOOO hope this kid comes on time for a little early so the kids get their own months. We are cutting it close already. I am vowing not to do joint birthday parties. ::bangs gavel::
Everyone tries to tell me it’s ok to share birthdays, but I know I did it once with a family friend and HATED IT! The wanting different birthday months is partially because I think it’s nice to have different birth stones, flowers, etc. Not that I really get into that sort of thing, but they might. Then again, they’ll wish for whatever the opposite of what they have right? LOL
How close to your son’s bday is your due date? Mine is 10 days!
I so understand your desire for her to have her own birthday! I was so nervous that Audrey would come on my birthday, which happens to be Wade’s birthday too. I wasn’t so much worried for her that she would share a birthday with her parents, but more for Julian – like he’d feel really left out if all 3 of us had the same birthday and he wasn’t in the club.
I hope breastfeeding is much easier for you this time. I’m still super impressed that you managed to do it for so long with Alexa, despite how difficult it was for you.
I remember this! You’re all in the same month though right? I know I don’t want to share my birthday with anyone. I don’t get into claiming all of June to myself, but the 19th is MINE!
After everything I went through with BFing, you’d think I’d be cray cray about the bewbs, but my goodness when we were done I was SOOO glad LOL. I really wanted to let Alexa “self wean” but when she started screaming at me while throwing the Boppy at me I knew it was over
The sleep thing! Dear lord, I can’t even figure out the point of going to bed anymore. It’s just the start of several loooong hours of tossing and turning and feeling disgusting. I’d rather be up cleaning. Everything.
With my first I did get up and do things at night! I hate it now, but I’m too scared to wake the toddler to attempt much more than bitching on Twitter when I wake up 100x a night ;D
Yes, you do want them to have their own birthday months!! I barely scraped by with different birthdays, barely. And even then the whole things seems kind of pointless because you just know they are going to be celebrated together anyway. Who wants to go to two birthdays within a few days of one another?
The last month is like some kind of hell trial. I don’t know anyone who actually enjoys it. It’s probably to make sure that if you get zero sleep for the first three months you are so freaking grateful not to be pregnant it doesn’t matter.
I’m so excited for you. I hope it’s the experience you want.
xox
You’re right, and I’ve thought about it. The parties, at least the early ones that are our friends and family will most likely all be together regardless of how many days are in between. That said, once the girls have their own groups of friends, it would be nice to have different days to celebrate officially. Hell, even having separate official days for our immediate family dinner celebration would be nice (because right now we have the party on the weekend that makes most sense, but we always do something on the real day, just the 3 of us).
The sleep issue keeps getting worse. Last night was TERRIBLE. It sucks because I’m so tired all day, then it comes time to go to bed and I just can’t shut off my brain or get my body comfy. I agree though…you’re so miserable that labor and delivery seem like a MUCH better option LOL. Thanks Zoey <3
A little yoga before bed? A bath? Warm milk? My midwives told me to take my cal-mag supplement at bedtime, because apparently it helps muscles relax.
(You’re probably doing all of this already and it’s not working. Because that’s how pregnancy is. People say, “Try this!” and you’re all, “Thanks, but that totally isn’t helping!”)
Maybe everything will shift again this week and you’ll be a little more comfortable. I know it’s a stretch, but pregnancy is weird like that. Strange things happen all the time!
I’m actually not doing much of anything other than drinking too much water ALL THE TIME. Peter rubs my feet and legs since I have all that water retention (that’s aggravating the restless leg syndrome) . If I can fall to sleep right away it keeps that twitchy feeling at bay all night. I still have to wake up to pee over and over, but I don’t have to fight to get comfy. If I take a while to go to sleep however….it takes forever and the tingles come back. I should do some yoga now that I’m off bed-rest. It will only help with being limber for labor too (which I’m so not after 2 months of sitting still).