Warning: This post contains self-pity!
Dec. 17th, 2008 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charlottezwebOMG, this baby has to get out soooooooonnnnnn! I am falling apart! Not only am I enormous (I gained 10 lbs in a week!) but the baby is measuring over 40 weeks, so it's like I'm carrying around a full term kid. My ankles have disappeared, I'm exhausted, I have contractions all the time but not regularly enough to get this over with.
People stop me constantly with comments about how pregnant I look. Really? Wow, I hadn't noticed. Public Service Announcement: massively pregnant women have no sense of humor about it. Do not make comments about our appearance, our un/comfort, the liklehood of reaching/not reaching our due date, going down bumpy roads, eating a big lunch, having twins, having a pair of 14 yr olds in there, or anything else. Not funny. And when all my energy is invested in getting myself and my 3 yr old through the grocery store without killing either of us, I have very little extra energy to be polite.
My pelvis might as well be in two different time zones it's separated so far. Ow! Getting in and out of bed or in and out of the car hurts! Putting in pants? Hurts!
I would complain abt the heartburn but that's actually a lot better now that the baby has moved some. Still sideways but lower so not as bad for the digestion.
The new symptom though that causing this pity party--that's making everything just too much to take? My TMJ is back. I can't freaking eat or open and close my mouth all the way without masses of pain. The stupid relaxin hormone that loosens up all of the joints and such so the baby can fit through the pelvis has been loosening everything and today I woke up and tried to eat breakfast and youch! This is the final straw. I've been being as perky and cheery as possible with every thing else but this? This is just salt in the wound! I quit!
As of Mon was 1 cm dilated and 50% effaced, so things are starting to happen, thank goodness--and am now taking evening primrose oil and red raspberry leaf tea...I'm not supposed to labor, so once things get started, I just have to report in to the hospital...
People stop me constantly with comments about how pregnant I look. Really? Wow, I hadn't noticed. Public Service Announcement: massively pregnant women have no sense of humor about it. Do not make comments about our appearance, our un/comfort, the liklehood of reaching/not reaching our due date, going down bumpy roads, eating a big lunch, having twins, having a pair of 14 yr olds in there, or anything else. Not funny. And when all my energy is invested in getting myself and my 3 yr old through the grocery store without killing either of us, I have very little extra energy to be polite.
My pelvis might as well be in two different time zones it's separated so far. Ow! Getting in and out of bed or in and out of the car hurts! Putting in pants? Hurts!
I would complain abt the heartburn but that's actually a lot better now that the baby has moved some. Still sideways but lower so not as bad for the digestion.
The new symptom though that causing this pity party--that's making everything just too much to take? My TMJ is back. I can't freaking eat or open and close my mouth all the way without masses of pain. The stupid relaxin hormone that loosens up all of the joints and such so the baby can fit through the pelvis has been loosening everything and today I woke up and tried to eat breakfast and youch! This is the final straw. I've been being as perky and cheery as possible with every thing else but this? This is just salt in the wound! I quit!
As of Mon was 1 cm dilated and 50% effaced, so things are starting to happen, thank goodness--and am now taking evening primrose oil and red raspberry leaf tea...I'm not supposed to labor, so once things get started, I just have to report in to the hospital...
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Date: 2008-12-17 02:13 pm (UTC)I wish you a safe and speedy delivery...very soon!
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Date: 2008-12-17 03:19 pm (UTC)Hopefully Royce will say something amusing soon to lighten your mood
(c'mon baby)
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Date: 2008-12-17 06:07 pm (UTC)Wishing you a pampered rest.
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Date: 2008-12-17 08:25 pm (UTC)C'mon, baby!
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Date: 2008-12-17 09:28 pm (UTC)*STOMP*
*STOMP*
*Puh-STOMMMMMMP*!
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Date: 2008-12-18 12:36 am (UTC)Immediately followed with, "Um, fuckwit, one, it ain't your pregnancy, and two, last time you peed, you should have noticed you're a, like, uh, guy?"
Great. Sympathetic maternity pains with an LJ friend--given that baseline, if either of the girls decides to have kids, I'm in deep shit. But the cravings should be interesting...OK, I'll shut up now.
No matter what, here's hoping all happens soon and goes well.
(I tactfully decided to avoid saying, "Hang in there," because if past experience is any indicator, the immediate ripping-a-new-asshole response was justifiably something along the lines of "That's easy for you to say, you imbecilic douchebrain. If you hadn't noticed, I seem to have very little choice in this particular matter." However, that was something from the 16th hour of labor with D1, pre-epidural and all, so YMMV...)
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Date: 2008-12-18 10:50 am (UTC)