Most current craving...chocolate almondy ice cream. It's good. Thank you BYU creamery for having your yumminess in the Deseret Book Stores.
- First trip into Triage: Wednesday of last week, I woke up feeling particularly swollen and felt like it had happened literally over night. That day I spent as much time off my feet as I could, tried to drink plenty of water and eat food, etc. But by the end of the day, I was still feeling unusually swollen and on top of that, had been having intermittent headaches that Tylenol didn't seem to alleviate at all. Called into the doctor on call at the hospital and was told to come in to have my blood pressure checked and verify that baby was doing well. (I was describing symptoms of mild preeclampsia). So into the hospital we went. Danny was extremely calm during the whole thing. I on the other hand was feeling like a nervous wreck inside. I was anxious and worried, and slightly hopeful that if I did have signs of preeclampsia, that they would end up making a call to induce labor...but mostly worried and anxious, flustered--feeling quite like I wasn't exactly ready for this baby to be here yet, but thinking that if he was coming, or they said we needed to induce labor, then I'd have to be ready. It was kind of a roller coaster of emotions.
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| 37 week picture from last week |
Everything turned out fine of course. We got in by 8:30PM and were discharged around 10:30PM. Longest 2 hours of my life lol.
I just had the pleasure of sitting completely unclothed in a hospital gown with all the fun, itchy monitors strapped around my tummy. The baby kept moving around and making these load wooshing and thumping noises in the monitor, which was neat to hear. But overall, the tiny triage room was too hot and the bed was super uncomfortable and it made me realize just WHY labor and delivery classes tell you to stay at home as long as you can when you're actually in labor. Hospitals are just not that comfortable of environments! Now, the staff was great, and the wait wasn't obnoxiously long, but still: lesson learned--I don't want to be in triage any longer than I have to be.
I'm definitely glad Danny was super relaxed though. It would have made me really uptight if he had been super worried too. Let's just hope things don't completely swap when we're actually in labor...
- Officially a full centimeter dialated as of last Thursday, and 50% effaced (just a slight increase from 36 weeks). As of today, still about the same, though maybe a little bit more dialated and effaced (just not significant enough to put a number to it).
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| 38 week picture from today--belly shots are fun! (Plus then you don't have to see the awkward faces I make when I take pics of myself...) |
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| Like the awkward face in this one.... |
Overall, I'm feeling pretty darn good for 38 weeks pregnant. The last few days I've been SUPER tired, but that's what naps are for! :D My doctor asked how I was feeling today and I told him that I'd like to say I felt extremely uncomfortable or something so he'd maybe take pity on my, but realistically, I feel great. I can still walk around quickly if I need to; I have plenty of energy to do the few things I feel I would like to do; I've got more of an appetite; pregnancy is feeling pretty nice.
Of course, I would LOVE it if our baby would arrive this weekend. Labor Day weekend would be extremely cliche` but nice all the same. I'm just going to have to be patient though...no matter how hard it feels some times.
*This weekend both mine and Danny's moms will be out of town...we'll have to see if they jinx things into happening. Muuuuahahahahaha! *
Destiny said that she is so excited about you having your baby, but that he needs to hurry up! Debbie getting a grandmothers ring with October on it jinx Rachael into being born in Sept. So you never know but I think this weekend would be great to!
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