36 weeks and counting

36 weeks.
Well now.
The countdown continues. 
My last order of business is to pack up my hospital bag.
I’ve studied all of the lists out there, and made my own.
I’m currently trying to gather all these things and pack them up. 
It’s hard to do so contracting every time I get going.  In some ways, I wish they would [...]

The Nursery

Finished!!!!!!!

A day in the life

Since Sunday night, I have been contracting on and off.  Some very uncomfortable, some not so much.  It’s just getting annoying.   Like my Granny used to say, “shit or get off the pot.”
C-Dub is taking all of this very seriously and is hardly letting me go pee by myself.  I feel like I have to [...]

My first hospital visit.

Well, my child decided to act a fool today, and not move. 
At all.
For 4 hours.
I tried everything.  I drank juice, ice-cold water, laid on my side, jiggled my belly.
Nothing.
Told C-Dub, and the next thing I knew, I was on my way to the hospital.
Got there, the strip(the heart rate) was 140s, but not exactly what they call “reactive.”  [...]

35 weeks

35 weeks down
5 to go.
FIVE!!
Had a fly by appointment on Wednesday, nothing new.  I learned that there will be no more ultrasounds unless something is wrong.
But moving on:

How far along? 35 weeks today.
Total Weight Gain? Let’s just say like one my midwives said: it is what it is.
Maternity Clothes? I’m running out.  I am [...]

My current reality

The unemployment office is a degrading, depressing place.  You see people from all walks of life.  The person waiting next to you could be a laid off city worker making 20K , an executive  who made 100K, or me a nurse who was firmly in the middle.  We’re all in the same place, at the [...]

A busy week ahead

After an extremely long day yesterday, I got a chest of drawers for Baby Dub.
My cousin(who I used to be extremely close to, but as a teenager/young adult, got on my nerves) had a chest of drawers to give away.  Now, it doesn’t exactly match the crib, but it’s close enough, it’s big enough and [...]

34 weeks

34 weeks down, 6 to go.
SIX!
Ok, I’m getting excited!
What’s IN:
Contractions:   That’s right:Contractions, not Braxton Hicks.   I’ve been having a few here and there, but they started really coming last night.  I was cooking dinner, and had one.  I just sat on the floor, surprised.  2 min later, another.  5 minutes later, another.  Finally, I got a clue, laid down [...]

Misery

I am so damn uncomfortable.
I sit on the couch, my back hurts.
I lay on the couch: my back, my hip and my belly hurts from the pressure of leaning to one side.
I lay in the bed, and just can’t get comfortable.
I walk around, and feel like there is a bowling ball in my crotch, or that [...]

33 weeks:No swine, baby showers, and baby stuff

Week 33:
7 weeks to go!
I feel better. The it turned out to be a bad cold.  I thought it might be the flu when my temperature started inching up Thursday night, but I took some Tylenol, and it never went back up.  Lots of juice and water later, and my temps stayed around 98 degrees.  My [...]