Saturday, November 9, 2013

Whiny Pregnant Lady Post - Seriously, you can skip this one.

39 weeks and 4 days pregnant people. I've watched all the events and days that I had thought, "won't that be a great day to have the baby!" come and go. I know she will come out, but understand, I'm a planner and today I'm watching the last "great" thing I had planned for my husband and kids to go and do together while I was supposed to stay home with our newborn and just enjoy some quiet time with her, come and go. I have nothing more planned. And yet she stays in my tummy, all warm and snug. I wake up at night, thinking I'm having a contraction because of pain. Nope. It's just her stretching out, trying to find some room for her squished little body. My midwife won't discuss induction until this Wednesday, my due date. I cry daily. I just want her out. I've done all the work of growing her and I know she is "done"! I am ready to enjoy her from outside my body now!! I know all these emotions and feelings will change the moment I finally go into labor and I can just be excited to see her, but in the meantime, I am seriously discouraged. And I feel like she's never coming out. I am grateful for every day that she's kicking and active in there, I'd just like to have my energy back, a smaller body with less pain, and a family that can finally plan our next big change, moving to the Idaho Falls area!  Also, keep in mind, I have carried babies clear to my due date before, I'm just a little more worried this time because my turn around from having the baby to driving to our new home and wanting to unpack is going to be maybe around 3 weeks. Will my body be ready for all that work in 3 weeks? No idea, but it makes me feel stressed and worried. And according to my midwife, stress doesn't help you go into labor. LOL. Okay, you can return to your regularly scheduled positive post on someone else's page now. Or you can just skip this post entirely. I understand.

3 comments:

Jennifer said...

You can do this! Keep your chin up! At least the end is in sight! Just keep thinking "Wednesday. Wednesday." And then when you go into labor before that, it will be that much more of a happy day!

Jennifer said...

oops. sorry jenn. Didn't mean to be signed in under your name. This is Alyson

Hopeless Romantic said...

Sorry Alysa... This does not sound fun. :(