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Pregnancy Report
Feb. 21st, 2005 09:38 amMy due date is 9 days away. Nine. Like, single digits. How did that number get so small?
But I just had this week's doctor appointment, and based on what she said, unless things start changing very quickly, I shouldn't fixate on that 9.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
galagan told her that the entire family thinks I'm looking noticeably bigger this week, which totally cracked her up - she said "That's so funny, I think I might have to write it in the chart: 'Family reports...'". I'm still dilated a centimeter. My cervix is long and not thinning out, but is slightly lower than last week, so the baby has dropped a bit. She did mention the I word (that would be, Induction) - though only to say that we wouldn't consider induction until 41 1/2 weeks. So that's a ways off yet. (My gut tells me that I will go past my due date, but not so far past that I need inducing. Again, based on nothing more than my instinct.)
Yes, I'm a little physically uncomfortable, generally speaking. And my maternity leave starts a week from today. But I'm not in a terrible hurry - yet - to get this baby out of me. As someone put it the other day, once it's out, then I have to take care of it, and watch it all the time, and all that. :) Suddenly, a uterus seems like a fabulous method of childcare - you don't have to pay that much attention, and yet still know that your child is receiving reasonably good care.
Meanwhile - it's still relatively early in the day, and it's a holiday so I have the day off. Yay! There will be tasks getting ready for baby, moving around of possessions (everything in the house is getting rearranged, it seems), and soup-making. Plus crocheting and reading, if I can manage to squeeze those in. Woohoo.
But I just had this week's doctor appointment, and based on what she said, unless things start changing very quickly, I shouldn't fixate on that 9.
galagan told her that the entire family thinks I'm looking noticeably bigger this week, which totally cracked her up - she said "That's so funny, I think I might have to write it in the chart: 'Family reports...'". I'm still dilated a centimeter. My cervix is long and not thinning out, but is slightly lower than last week, so the baby has dropped a bit. She did mention the I word (that would be, Induction) - though only to say that we wouldn't consider induction until 41 1/2 weeks. So that's a ways off yet. (My gut tells me that I will go past my due date, but not so far past that I need inducing. Again, based on nothing more than my instinct.)Yes, I'm a little physically uncomfortable, generally speaking. And my maternity leave starts a week from today. But I'm not in a terrible hurry - yet - to get this baby out of me. As someone put it the other day, once it's out, then I have to take care of it, and watch it all the time, and all that. :) Suddenly, a uterus seems like a fabulous method of childcare - you don't have to pay that much attention, and yet still know that your child is receiving reasonably good care.
Meanwhile - it's still relatively early in the day, and it's a holiday so I have the day off. Yay! There will be tasks getting ready for baby, moving around of possessions (everything in the house is getting rearranged, it seems), and soup-making. Plus crocheting and reading, if I can manage to squeeze those in. Woohoo.
