Well I’m over my due date by 4 days now.
Blah! I get texts, emails, and
Facebook messages from a hoard of people every day asking me how I feel and if
the baby has come yet. I’m pretty sure
that I’d let most people know if the baby had decided to make an
appearance. Also, I’m not really sure
what to say about how I feel. I’m
huge! My skin is stretched to the max
and this baby seems to still be gaining weight so I don’t feel great, but I
also don’t feel awful either.
I see the doctor on Thursday and she’ll most likely want to induce me
right away since the weekend will be coming and next Monday is Family Day. I had my non-stress test (NST) on Monday and
everything looked good. Baby was moving
well, had a good heart rate, and showed no sign of stress. The resident who came to review my results
with me told me that since I’m overdue I can look forward to these every 3 days
until I get induced or have the baby. I’m
not too excited about that since I have to do the NSTs at the hospital and they
have ridiculous parking rates over there.
My mom is coming tomorrow. I really didn’t want her around before the
baby comes, but she has some business stuff she has to do. The problem is that whenever she comes down
she manages to stay at my house or friend’s houses for 1-2 weeks. I can only take about 1-2 days before she
gets on my nerves and I want to send her back.
She loves visiting though and so she’s usually here way too long and we
end up fighting because she gets on my nerves or disrupts Dre and I’s
schedule. Anyways, I’m picking her up at
the bus station tomorrow afternoon if I haven’t gone into labour by then.
I’m getting tired of drinking
Raspberry Leaf Tea. It doesn’t taste
bad, but it just hasn’t done anything yet and it gets really old to drink the
same tea 1-2 every day. I’m also still
taking Evening Primrose Oil, but I think I’ll cut back to 1 or 2 a day because
those pills are seriously giving me the runs and that’s not cool! They’re the perfect cure to
constipation! I’ve gotten every
suggestion under the sun to “naturally” start my labour, but I personally don’t
think any of them work unless your body is ready or was going to go into labour
anyways. The weirdest ones I’ve had
suggested are to eat lots of popcorn and to drink castor oil with orange
juice. Hmmm, yes I totally want to drink
an oil that’s going to give me the runs.
So needless to say, I’ve tried most of the sane ones like walking a lot
and all that, but I’m going to stay far, far away from the crazy ones like
castor oil.
I lost my To-Do list so I consider it
all done. Of course, I have a ton of
small things to do every day, but nothing major is left. I just need to do stuff like go consign the
baby clothes I’m not keeping, harass my insurance company into paying the
expenses they’re supposed to cover for Dre, send in my claims for the massage
therapy and chiropractor expenses of the past few months.
We’re done the baby room! Yay!
Dre and I are in the process of buying the letters to spell the baby’s
name and then I’ll paint them. Michael’s
only lets you use one coupon per day, but you can print as many as you want so
every time I go by the store I pick up another letter. Also, I need to figure out how to paint MDF
wood since that’s all they had. We don’t
plan on hanging the baby’s name until he’s born since we’re not telling anyone
what the name is.
Here’s my pictures. I just keep getting bigger…
A disclaimer…my weight is leaping up every few days. I mean in the past 2 days my scale tells me I
gained 5 lbs. How is that even
possible? I’m going to eat more
Valentine Day Hershey’s Chocolates with cherry filling to make myself feel
betterJ My average weight this week is 186.0
lbs which is a gain of 2.5 lbs since last week. This makes my total weight gain
for this pregnancy exactly 33 lbs. That’s the most weight I’ve gained in one
single week this pregnancy. I’m pretty
sure it’s going to be even worse for this week (Week 41) too.
I’m still tired and achy. I also
am having a really hard time doing things like putting on my winter boots and
picking stuff off the floor. Most of the
time if it falls on the floor, I just want to leave it there. So last week I mentioned that I found a
diaper bag, but since it’s impossible to find in Canada I’ve just decided to
ignore the fact that I don’t have a diaper bag.
No contractions. No
Braxton-Hicks. Nothing.
I’m really looking forward to meeting this baby. The end!
Baby is still the size of a watermelon. Although with all the weight he’s gained he’s
probably a really big watermelon by now!
