Pregnancy Journal :: Week 40
Tuesday, August 24th, 20108/12/10 :: day 280 (+0)
Well, today is the big day. D-day (a.k.a. – My Due Date) No signs of baby yet. Bummer.
(4:09pm) Today hasn’t been as emotional as I had expected. I didn’t get much sleep again last night, even with the Tylenol PM I took. Yes, my doc okayed me taking it. Around 11:30am I met Derek for lunch at Lenny’s…his favorite place in the world. Then I took a little shopping trip (for necessities) to Target. I did a little window shopping. I thought the air conditioned walking might help kick off some labor, but no. I left Target with toilet paper, cleaning supplies, but no painful contractions.
I’m still having regular BH contractions, but nothing with pain yet. Grayson hates the BH’s he gets real mad after they happen and starts kicking and flailing about in there. Yea, for my internal organs!
When I got home from Target I swept the front porch and trimmed a few bushes. Nothing too heavy. Just a little activity to get me moving. I also did a little house work today. I vacuumed, dusted, and did a load of laundry. Now I’m bored again.
8/13/10 :: day 281 (+ 1)
Yep, I’m starting to swell. Geez that’s awesome. Last night it was my feet and today my hands are puffy. I can still take off my wedding rings, but it’s a bit of a squeeze. Last night, exactly at midnight, I got hit with some nasty pain in my back. I thought FINALLY, THIS IS IT, but after 5-10 minutes it went away. It was a no go. Good thing I didn’t wake Derek up over that one.
Since I haven’t been getting a ton of sleep lately Derek offered to sleep on the couch last night. Don’t worry it’s super comfy. Well, sleeping in a big empty bed without the sounds of a snoring husband waking me every 30 minutes really helped me catch up on some much needed sleep. I didn’t wake up until 12:30pm this afternoon. Like I said…much needed.
8/14/10 :: day 282 (+2)
Today was a bit rough. I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night. I conked out around 1:30am and was awaken by a barfing dog around 5:30am. Then I couldn’t get back to sleep. I tried laying back down for a while, but no luck dozing off. All I could do was think of what needed to be done today. I played on the computer some, cleaned some floorboard, did a load of laundry, and baked my sweetie some cinnamon rolls @ 7:30am. I think he enjoyed the early morning surprise…just not so much the early morning part of the surprise.
After the cinnamon rolls I tried one more time to catch some Z’s, but again…no luck. So at 9:30am Derek and I started our day. We ventured out of the house into the nasty 100 degree weather. By the way, the heat index was 112 today. Ahhhh! Around 3pm we came back home and I attempted to take me a little nap. It worked. I was zonked out, drooling my little heart out, for a solid 2 hours.
8/15/10 :: day 283 (+3)
Well, I was able to sleep last night. The hubs was a peach and slept @ Sofa City so I could have the bed all to myself. As much as I prefer having him next to me at night, I’ve gotta start catching some Z’s before this kid gets here. He shut all the doors to the room and hallway to keep the room completely quite for me. How sweet is he? I stayed racked out until noon today. Minus the occasional potty break. I mean I AM 10 months pregnant.
We decided to skip church today. We figure these are our last few days together, just him and I so we both slept in and when I awoke we grabbed some Taco Bell and lounged out the couch just watching movies. It was wonderful. Around 5pm we ventured out and went to and Ice Cream Dinner at church. Yep, we skipped the service, but showed for the FREE ice cream. Cuz that’s what heathens do.
I’m still having some BH contractions constantly throughout the day, but no real signs of labor still. It still looks like Tuesday will be the big day. At least we will be really, really prepared.
8/16/10 :: day 284 (+4)
Wow. Tomorrow is the big day. The day I have been waiting on for the past 9 months…more like my whole life. The day I give birth to my 1st child. To keep my mind off of this crazy event my mom took me out today for lunch and a day of shopping. We had a great day.
I think tonight is going to be worse than the night before Christmas, with a side of skydiving for the 1st time. I say skydiving, because you want this to happen, but you never really know that everything will turn out fine until you feet hit the ground. Not that I would be crazy enough to jump willingly out of a plane. But, I imagine that is what would be going through my mind.
The day didn’t start out so wonderful though. I made myself wake up at 6am with Derek (when he left for work) to ensure that I would fall asleep tonight. I don’t want to be exhausted tomorrow. So, my morning was spent a bit groggy, but that wasn’t the bad part.
Just before my mom was about to pick me up I started a load of laundry. I noticed the water looked a bit brown. I thought maybe that there was just dirt left in the washer from washing dog towels the day before, so I started a load. Next, I went to refill the dog’s water bowls and I noticed the water looked a bit brown there too. I grabbed a white cereal bowl and filled it with water, and yep…it was brown too. I about lost it. Just then my mom walked in the door. Isn’t that something you want to walk into? Your 40 week pregnant daughter on the verge of a melt down because all the water in her house is now brown, just one day away from bringing a newborn home from the hospital.
I had Derek call in and report the issue, and it turns out that down the street they were working on the water lines and I guess mud or something got into the main line. When my mom and I returned from eating lunch and picking up 4 gallons of drinking water from the grocery store, just in case, the water was back to normal. Disaster averted.
She and I spent the rest of the day hopping from store to store just killing time. She shopped I watched. Not like I can really fit in anything but maternity right now. We did do some shopping for Grayson today as well. Even though I felt like I walked a million miles today I am still only having BH contractions. Nothing painful still. Oh well, that will definitely change tomorrow.
Derek and I went out on our last meal as a family of two. We went to our favorite little Taco Shop Swanky’s. Since I am being induced tomorrow morning I can’t have anything to eat or drink after midnight tonight I pigged out on a huge pile of nachos and two big ‘ole Cokes. Yummy in my tummy!
I’m quite nervous about what tomorrow will bring, but at the same time I am over the moon that I finally get to meet this tiny person that I have been baking for the past 9 months. I can’t wait to introduce Grayson to the world.
**** Stay tuned. The birth story is coming soon. ****







