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[rivka]

I'm starting to feel kind of dragged down.

I've been in prelabor for a solid week now - a week of intermittent abdominal cramps, back pain, trouble sleeping, flurries of contractions that dwindle away into nothing, and the occasional spot of blood. I don't feel miserable, and I should be grateful to have progressed this far (3cm!) without significant pain. But day after day, I don't feel well. Prelabor is uncomfortable and tiring, and it seems to have no end in sight.

It's hard for me to stay in any one position for very long, and sitting at my computer is one of the worst and hardest to maintain. So I'm mostly camped on the couch, reading, doing embroidery, watching TV, doing minute quantities of housework, chatting a little with saoba, and waiting. Earlier in the week, I was determined to get a reasonable amount of exercise every day, but by now I'm finding that I get worn out too quickly. A short stroll to the store is about enough.

Patience has never been one of my best qualities, but I really am trying. At this point it's not so much that I'm impatient for the baby to come (although of course I am), as it is that I just can't imagine how I could manage to go on feeling this way for very much longer. But I am trying to be patient, and take it one day at a time. I really am.

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[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

The last month of pregnancy is awful. Between the physical discomfort and never knowing when the baby was going to show up, I just wanted to be left alone. Two more days till your official due date, right? At least if you're even a day late, you'll have baseball to help while away the time. ... Okay, maybe that's not such a great comfort.

Do you have a sense of when you'll go into labor? kcobweb and I both had specific ideas of when we would deliver, and we were both right, so I'm wondering if you have any similar feelings.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

At least if you're even a day late, you'll have baseball to help while away the time.

I can't imagine she'll be comfortable enough to play baseball. ;)