because I'm up and it's after midnight -- morning!
I spent the past 3+ hours panicked that labor would start. We lost power around 9pm on a hot, rainy night. No power also means no water (well pump) and all I could see was labor starting and me having no resources for dealing with it -- much less I was a million degrees because of the lack of fans and a/c. It was also a slow rain, not the nice kind that forces cooling breezes through the house and I felt like I was gonna go nuts trying to get some kind of sleep with no air movement and humidity increasing every minute.
A little before 1am, we heard a huge crack outside and seeing as how we weren't getting to sleep anyways, we went out to see that our largest tree just lost it's biggest primary branches. Thankfully it dropped the side away from the house - though it's now very unbalanced and we imagine that the side closest to the house will drop at any time now - especially because it dropped from just some soaking rains and not from heavy storm winds or anything. DH and DD are going to have a lot of work to do getting the yard cleared and getting the other half of the tree seriously trimmed back to avoid taking out the side of the house.
Good news is that during our inspection the power came back on. I think the initial adrenaline rush of seeing the damage is now passing and the a/c has probably been able to fight back the heat and humidity in our room.
I think I can go get some sleep and can stop panicking about possible labor starting - though I would like to get some rest before anything happens -- just in case my body/baby was having any birthing thoughts.
I spent the past 3+ hours panicked that labor would start. We lost power around 9pm on a hot, rainy night. No power also means no water (well pump) and all I could see was labor starting and me having no resources for dealing with it -- much less I was a million degrees because of the lack of fans and a/c. It was also a slow rain, not the nice kind that forces cooling breezes through the house and I felt like I was gonna go nuts trying to get some kind of sleep with no air movement and humidity increasing every minute.
A little before 1am, we heard a huge crack outside and seeing as how we weren't getting to sleep anyways, we went out to see that our largest tree just lost it's biggest primary branches. Thankfully it dropped the side away from the house - though it's now very unbalanced and we imagine that the side closest to the house will drop at any time now - especially because it dropped from just some soaking rains and not from heavy storm winds or anything. DH and DD are going to have a lot of work to do getting the yard cleared and getting the other half of the tree seriously trimmed back to avoid taking out the side of the house.
Good news is that during our inspection the power came back on. I think the initial adrenaline rush of seeing the damage is now passing and the a/c has probably been able to fight back the heat and humidity in our room.
I think I can go get some sleep and can stop panicking about possible labor starting - though I would like to get some rest before anything happens -- just in case my body/baby was having any birthing thoughts.
Last night I had the brilliant idea that I should try to turn the babe full-anterior, so I went down on my hands and knees and rocked gently until I couldn't stand the pressure anymore. I don't know what it did because I really suck at telling baby's position, but the pain way down low increased 100 fold and hasn't really gone away since.
: Not my longest pregnancy but not the shortest either. Good luck to all the other mama's in labour.
But, hopefully it goes active FAST for you! 
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