So we've reached it. The proverbial D-Day of growing a human. The elusive Due Date that basically means nothing except that you should hopefully have a baby by now. Except when you don't. Which is my case. No baby. No anything. Just me, sitting here at work,...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
Know what sucks?
At this point, pretty much everything.
That's not entirely true. In fact, it's a bit over-dramatic. But waiting does suck. And I'm still doing a lot of that. It doesn't help when people are texting me like "Where is that baby?" as if I'm holding it hostage or something. ...
Friday, December 26, 2014
The wait continues
This morning I had a doctor's appointment. I had hoped there'd be some information about how much longer this waiting game would keep going on, but nope. They didn't do an internal exam, again, and they didn't really have any new information. Took a heart rate. Estimated she's...
Monday, December 22, 2014
T-Minus 9 Days
Or like 23 days, if we're not being optimistic. I was told that they'd let me go up to 2 weeks past my due date before inducing so.....it could be a while. People are like "So, no signs that it'll be soon?" and I keep wondering what sort of signs these people mean. I'm told that there...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Still here
The funny thing about this point in a pregnancy is that everyone starts asking how you're feeling, but they ask it with one of those tones like they're sort of afraid of your answer. I think people are used to getting their heads bitten off by women who are just over the whole process. I...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The Waiting Game
I'm quickly realizing I'm entirely too Type A for this whole uncertainty thing when it comes to babies being born. I feel like, for the most part, I've held things together pretty well through this whole pregnancy process. Yes, there's been a bit of whining here and there throughout this...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Making Room
So part of the journey to not having a total meltdown at the prospect of how close this whole thing is getting was to figure out where this kid was going to live. The problem was that we kept...