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Still pregnant...
Mar. 24th, 2005 03:18 pm...and so tired of it.
I have reconsidered my plan to work right up until my water breaks. Instead, tomorrow will be my last day in the office. I'll take some things home with me and work on them next week if I'm, you know, still pregnant, but it's just gotten too hard to drag myself into the office and sit at my desk all day. (If I'm lucky. Today I've walked sixteen blocks in the course of the workday.)
How it feels to be me these days:
- The baby is very, very low in my pelvis, leading to uncomfortable grinding feelings as her bony little head juts up against my cervix and my pelvic bone and so forth.
- I'm having intermittent menstrual-cramp feelings, which are probably prelabor. Sometimes they are very clearly associated with contractions; other times it's hard to be sure. I get excited about it when they are, but I am mostly deluding myself - prelabor can go on for weeks.
- My back hurts, pretty much most of the time. I'm also having some pain in my hip. I think the hip pain is because I lean forward in my chair to take some of the strain off my back, and that just transfers the strain to my hip.
- I am feeling antisocial. I seem to want to spend much more of my time being quiet. This is particularly true when I'm at work, probably because I'm in more pain there - but it's awkward, because I have to force myself not to snap at my research assistants or avoid them. They have a right to talk to me during the workday.
- I have to pee every ten minutes. If I don't drink gallons and gallons of water, I still have to pee every ten minutes, plus I get painful spasms in my bladder. I begin to suspect that this enormous swollen belly of mine is not so much a baby as it is a vast and inexhaustible reservoir of pee.
- I am so unbelievably tired by the end of the day.
- I am relatively over my panic about having a baby to take home, and am mostly looking forward to holding the Li'l Critter in my arms at last.
The latest midwife news:
We went in on Tuesday. Everything looked good for me - blood pressure, swelling, urine, weight - and for the baby - size, heartbeat, response to activity. The baby has moved way down into the pelvis since last week. My cervix is soft and 1.5cm dilated, but still less than 50% effaced. She offered to strip my membranes, but Michael and I hadn't had a chance to talk it over beforehand and wound up putting it off. (He was afraid that it would be very painful for me. Opinions?) We might do it at our next visit on Wednesday, if I'm, you know, still pregnant.
I have reconsidered my plan to work right up until my water breaks. Instead, tomorrow will be my last day in the office. I'll take some things home with me and work on them next week if I'm, you know, still pregnant, but it's just gotten too hard to drag myself into the office and sit at my desk all day. (If I'm lucky. Today I've walked sixteen blocks in the course of the workday.)
How it feels to be me these days:
- The baby is very, very low in my pelvis, leading to uncomfortable grinding feelings as her bony little head juts up against my cervix and my pelvic bone and so forth.
- I'm having intermittent menstrual-cramp feelings, which are probably prelabor. Sometimes they are very clearly associated with contractions; other times it's hard to be sure. I get excited about it when they are, but I am mostly deluding myself - prelabor can go on for weeks.
- My back hurts, pretty much most of the time. I'm also having some pain in my hip. I think the hip pain is because I lean forward in my chair to take some of the strain off my back, and that just transfers the strain to my hip.
- I am feeling antisocial. I seem to want to spend much more of my time being quiet. This is particularly true when I'm at work, probably because I'm in more pain there - but it's awkward, because I have to force myself not to snap at my research assistants or avoid them. They have a right to talk to me during the workday.
- I have to pee every ten minutes. If I don't drink gallons and gallons of water, I still have to pee every ten minutes, plus I get painful spasms in my bladder. I begin to suspect that this enormous swollen belly of mine is not so much a baby as it is a vast and inexhaustible reservoir of pee.
- I am so unbelievably tired by the end of the day.
- I am relatively over my panic about having a baby to take home, and am mostly looking forward to holding the Li'l Critter in my arms at last.
The latest midwife news:
We went in on Tuesday. Everything looked good for me - blood pressure, swelling, urine, weight - and for the baby - size, heartbeat, response to activity. The baby has moved way down into the pelvis since last week. My cervix is soft and 1.5cm dilated, but still less than 50% effaced. She offered to strip my membranes, but Michael and I hadn't had a chance to talk it over beforehand and wound up putting it off. (He was afraid that it would be very painful for me. Opinions?) We might do it at our next visit on Wednesday, if I'm, you know, still pregnant.
