A little close to home
Trying to live here today, still struggling to enjoy the day and not fixate on being finished.
Trying to live here today, still struggling to enjoy the day and not fixate on being finished.
I haven’t broken down into tears in over 24 hours!!! Maybe things are settling down on the hormone front…
Born at home 7:54am 11/13/2010
Weight 8lbs 14ozs
21 Inches long
Head 36.5 cm
Naming her may actually have been harder than bringing her out into the world!
It was a close race, but our baby girl beat out even the bedroom furniture. Our second daughter arrived at 7:54am and the bedroom set didn’t make it until 12:07pm! The couches are nowhere in sight (sigh)
just don’t got the way I wanted.
I could hardly believe we made it to 11/11 after all the contractions (starting 10/30) but here we are and we missed it!!!! I am disappointed to say the least, but it is hard to explain to anyone just how much or why…
I feel like we tried everything reasonably available (even had my first acupuncture treatment after hearing about a friends results with induction via that treatment – NOTHING for me) and it just wasn’t the right time.
I guess this is yet another moment of God teaching me I am NOT in control and to just get over myself. It is a lesson I apparently need hammered into my head at every possible occasion.
Now I have no more “favorite” dates left and I am just tired of being pregnant. Hope to meet this baby REALLY SOON!
Apparently we are going to have a race to see which comes first… the baby or the furniture (2 couches or 1 bedroom set.) I am kinda pulling for the couches, but that may just be because I am tired of sitting on the ones we have now…
My midwife just called and has a family emergency and won’t be available for the next 12 hours… she has back ups, but Oh boy I am trying to be calm! Not happy, but what can you do?
Yes today is my “EDD” or “estimated due date” and yes the baby isn’t here yet – big surprise!
I have to say it has been very interesting talking to people this week. Please love to ask a pregnant women when she is due, but when you answer “today” or any day with 2-4 days of when you are talking to them you get nearly the same reaction. Shock, surprise, and (what looks to me like) hidden concern that you are going to shoot a baby out at them or get amniotic fluid on their shoes… I fluctuate between amused and annoyed by these reactions.
It is funny, at the beginning of each (of at least the 2nd and 3rd) pregnancies I expected to go past my due date and was totally fine with it. It was such a long time away that a few days didn’t seem like anything. The part I find funny is that as I approached 36 weeks (a few weeks ago) I started thinking (yet again) “maybe this time I will have this baby early.”
What is it about late pregnancy that makes me think that I could go into labor at any moment?
I have had 2 pregnancies so far go days past the “due” date and there is no indication that this time will be any different, but somehow I can’t help but think – “maybe this time”
10/20/2010… Would have been a fine birth date too… AND it was inside the home birth window… Guess we are crossing the legs until November