It's 10:40 pm and I am wide awake. I got up this morning, started laundry, got DH out the door, fed DS... by 9:00 I am usually propping my eyes open with tooth picks but today I was all over the house. I just woke up feeling great. I looked around my bedroom and thought "it's kinda cluttered - I don't want to lie in this bed with my new baby and be surrounded by clutter" so I cleaned my room.
The car seats had to be taken out of the truck and rearranged (long story) but it's been so hot and I've been so tired lately that I haven't attempted it. I did that, in no time flat.
I washed dishes, cleaned a few rooms in the house, and ran some errands. Then I met a friend for lunch and walked in the mall for over an hour. My friend and the kids were tired, but I was still good to go. I came home to clean up our tv room, then DS's room, and cook supper. I gave DS a bath, etc etc etc. I'm still going. Until yesterday, I could hardly move for most of the day. Wednesday night at supper, I was trying to explain how tired I was to DH; I said that it was debilitating. I literally couldn't function. If I did get up and try to move around, I was so slow doing anything that I just gave up. I was constantly yawning and all I could think about was a nap. But yesterday afternoon and today I have been on fire. Granted, when I get down on the floor it takes just as long to get up as it did two days ago - I am still huge and move more like a whale than a person. But at least I'm still moving!
I told my midwife that I have finally reached that burst of energy that I thought all those other women just made up. I have had a lot of contractions today and yesterday evening, so maybe things are starting. But whether I have this baby tonight or in a week, I'm more ok with it coming when it needs to because I feel so much better. I don't mind nearly as much being pregnant for another week or two, if I can feel like this!
Of course, I would love to have to get out of bed tonight and call my birth team, but I am able to think of other things - unlike a few days ago. I was so exhausted and uncomfortable, that going into labor was all I could think about. Which I'm sure was not helping my body to relax and do its thing!
With DS, I never got that burst of energy. We did everything we could to naturally induce because I was 42 weeks and the midwife was getting nervous; things weren't acting right. I had no idea it could feel so good!
I'm even thinking DTD doesn't sound too daunting...
Wish me luck - maybe this is a sign that this birth is just around the corner!
The car seats had to be taken out of the truck and rearranged (long story) but it's been so hot and I've been so tired lately that I haven't attempted it. I did that, in no time flat.
I washed dishes, cleaned a few rooms in the house, and ran some errands. Then I met a friend for lunch and walked in the mall for over an hour. My friend and the kids were tired, but I was still good to go. I came home to clean up our tv room, then DS's room, and cook supper. I gave DS a bath, etc etc etc. I'm still going. Until yesterday, I could hardly move for most of the day. Wednesday night at supper, I was trying to explain how tired I was to DH; I said that it was debilitating. I literally couldn't function. If I did get up and try to move around, I was so slow doing anything that I just gave up. I was constantly yawning and all I could think about was a nap. But yesterday afternoon and today I have been on fire. Granted, when I get down on the floor it takes just as long to get up as it did two days ago - I am still huge and move more like a whale than a person. But at least I'm still moving!
I told my midwife that I have finally reached that burst of energy that I thought all those other women just made up. I have had a lot of contractions today and yesterday evening, so maybe things are starting. But whether I have this baby tonight or in a week, I'm more ok with it coming when it needs to because I feel so much better. I don't mind nearly as much being pregnant for another week or two, if I can feel like this!
Of course, I would love to have to get out of bed tonight and call my birth team, but I am able to think of other things - unlike a few days ago. I was so exhausted and uncomfortable, that going into labor was all I could think about. Which I'm sure was not helping my body to relax and do its thing!
With DS, I never got that burst of energy. We did everything we could to naturally induce because I was 42 weeks and the midwife was getting nervous; things weren't acting right. I had no idea it could feel so good!
I'm even thinking DTD doesn't sound too daunting...
Wish me luck - maybe this is a sign that this birth is just around the corner!
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: but I'm not holding my breath that this means anything. At least I managed to fit all dh's records in his closet (we don't even own a record player 
they don't need to be out)
