Pigs feet...lol So this weekend my feet have been HUGE!!! And I am not talking end of the day I have been on them all day huge. More like I wake up in the morning and they are big like hams!!! Is that normal? Cant be? I mean I know that I have retained a lot of water but this is ridiculous!!!! So last night I sent my midwife an email (yes I get to email my midwife and she responds!!!) to ask her if it was normal. I mean I have not changed anything in my diet and I drink LOTS of water so it cant be normal right?
I got an email response this morning for me to call the nurse line. They decided that I needed to come into the office just to make sure my blood pressure was not too high. Of course I got my butt up and went hoping that maybe they would tell me that it is time to have this baby!!!! Well such is not the case. Harriett the midwife said that this is a part of pregnancy. If my blood pressure was elevated then it would be a problem...but since it is not then we are still in the waiting game!!!! She didn't even check to see if I had dilated, but we have another appointment on Wednesday so I guess she will do it then.
I think that I am going to ask to be induced on Thursday...if I have not had the baby yet. I just can't take it anymore and I will be 40 weeks on Saturday!!! I just dont think that he is going to come on his own!!! He is stubborn like his daddy...lol.
I have finally started making Aiden's blanket. And I think that it is going to be very pretty!!!! Even though it will probably take me about 3 months to make it...I mean I had to pick a complicated pattern didnt I? Hopefully it wont take me too long. I am trying to get a head start before he comes. I have attached a picture of the one that I am working on.
2008-08-16 (39 weeks)
Could this be it.... So after being pissy most of yesterday afternoon and then talking to BD's Grandmother and becoming more pissy I decided to chill for a minute to get my mind right...lol. Then BD asked me if I wanted to go and take a walk around the neighborhood...I was in shock!!! He was actually asking me to do something that I may possibly want to do because it could help bring on labor. WOW...so we went on the walk and it was nice. Came in, ate dinner, watched some of the olympics and then went to bed.
So at about 1am I started having contractions...and they were like 15 minutes apart. So I thought to myself...Coule this be it? Am I FINALLY going into labor. So I try to get comfortable in bed, which was very hard, and try to relax. Of course BD has no idea that I am in pain eventhough I am groaning and all kids of other things. He sleeps like a dead man. After about 4 hours of contractions they stop. And I guess I didnt realize that they had stopped until I woke up at like 6;30am to use the bathroom. UGH!!! So still no baby!!!
I went and picked my mom up from the doctor this morning and we ran errands ALL DAY LONG!!! I should be going into labor tonight because I have walked at least 2 miles today...lol. We went to babies r us to exchange a defective bouncer and so I could get the play yard. I am so excited about having that!!!! Then we went to Michael's so I could get this pattern book that I saw the pattern for the blanket I am going to make Aiden in...unfortunately they didnt have the yarn I wanted so we had to go to another Michael's. My mom had to go and pay a speeding ticket...lol...then we went to one of my favorite places in Decatur....the Dekalb county farmers market. Which is indoors so it is open all year and everyday!!!!! I got lots of fruit and the chicken thighs my dad wanted for when he comes down to cook. I mean what I spent in the farmers market for fresh organic items would have been at least 2x the amount in the regular groery store. Too bad the farmers market is so far away. I would be there all the darn time if I lived closer to it...lol.
So I left the house at about 11am this morning and didnt get back until close to 8pm!!!! OMG...I was so tired. But I had to clean out my refridgerator. It was so filthy!!! And I told myself that I wanted to clean it before the baby came. So that is what I did. And I am so happy!!!! It looks brand new. Now I am laying in the bed...exhausted...and typing through contractions. So maybe I will go into labor tonight...but I am not holding my breath...lol.
2008-08-14 (38 weeks)
My mood...really irritated I can honestly say that this is the first time in my pregnancy that I am knowingly irritated. I am so freaking irritated...I think that I could spit bullets!!! Went to the doctor today and OF COURSE I AM NOT DILATED!! I am 50% thinned out (need to research what that means) but not dilated at all so she could not strip my membranes. Once she told me that I don't think I said anything else for the rest of the appointment. I am just not happy about this.
I am almost 39 weeks and really freaking tired of being pregnant. I am uncomfortable, constipated, tired, frustrated, my stomach is heavy as heck (I am not 181 lbs!!!! and it is all in my stomach), and back hurts like heck, feet are swollen and hurting...oh and the list goes on. Every day feels like a month and I just cant see the light at the end of the tunnel....even though I know that it is there.
So I am home ready to take a nap because I didn't sleep barely any last night (between the contractions and the 10 bathroom breaks) and hopefully when I wake up I wont be so irritated but I seriously doubt that. Oh and I still have to call BD's grandmother...don't really want to deal with other peoples needs right now. But what is new...what I feel I want and need seem not to be important to anyone but myself. So until next time...
Oh wait, I got some pictures from my second baby shower. I will put the one of me and my mentor LaVerne (who threw the shower) in the photo gallery.
2008-08-14 (38 weeks)
Still no baby.. Yesterday I went to Target to return something, went to Outback with my pregnant line sister (I had the most delicious cheese fries but dont tell BD...lol), went to babies r us (like I really needed to do that...lol), and then went to Scolini's. The plan was to go to Scolinis for their mythical labor inducing eggplant parmasean for lunch, but then my pregnant line sister informed me that they didnt open until 4:30pm!!!! Well that put a serious dent in my day. So I went into the office first and then went to the top of the perimenter. I just didnt want to be driving all over the city all day. So I wasted time at babies r us until they opened.
So legend has it that within 24-48 hours of eating this eggplant parmasean that women go into labor. It has been 24 hours and the only thing that is different is that Aiden is moving even MORE than he was before I ate it (like he is doing right now)!!!!! And I am not a fan of eggplant...but it was not all that bad. STILL NO LABOR!!!
I am so tired of sleeping sitting up that I dont know what to do with myself. I am also tired of getting up to go to the bathroom like I have to pee an ocean and three little drops come out...ugh...that is the worst. You feel like your bladder is going to burst open and there is barely anything in there. So far the food, the squats, the tea, and walking has not made this little man want to come out of his warm hibernation. I am starting to think that he will NEVER come out. I have run out of ideas and I am NOT trying the castor oil...I will pass on the runs...lol.
I have a doctors appontment in the morning and I am praying to the pregnancy Gods that I am dilated to at least 1...I mean is that too much to ask.? I am only 10 days away from the due date and it will be just my luck that I go all the way to my due date or even become overdue. That is going to be UNACCEPTABLE!!!!! I think that I may cry if she tells me tomorrow that I still have not dilated. I have warned BD that I will be in a really bad mood if that is the news that I get. So i am sure that he is hoping that I am dilated as well...lol.
Well I have had a long day and am so sleepy. I cant believe that I am even still awake. So time to go nighty night...until tomorrow....
