28 Weeks

Puppy Love

Merry Christmas!

I wanted to update this all week but have been so busy shopping, working, and cooking that I haven't really had time til now. And actually I'm a bit pressed for time right now too, since we have family staying with us, but here's a quick, semi-update (and I will do another update as soon as I have time).

28 Weeks:

HELLO THIRD TRIMESTER!

It's official - just three months to go. Wow...that went by fast. It feels like just a few months ago I found out I was pregnant. Now here I am saying I'm all two-thirds of the way prego and stuff. I am feeling really really excited mixed with a lot of nervous thoughts about all we have left to do to get ready for the baby. And of course a little nervous about how the heck a baby is going to come out of....that. Eek.

I find it's most helpful to just not think about that part at all. Whatever happens will happen and that's the way it's gonna go. We pretty much have decided that no birth plan is our best plan. I'd like to go to the hospital with no expectations other than that I will be leaving it with a newborn. All the crap women talk about regarding the "dreaded Pitocin" and playing music during the delivery, and "he broke my water before I was ready!!!!" -  aint nobody got time for that.

I had a little talk with my doctor about it and he said that while you can have a birth plan in mind (and you can even download one from the internet if ya want and bring it with you to the hospital), nature usually has her own plan. And she does what she wants. So that's what made the most sense to us. Let nature run it's course for as long as possible, and if it's not working out the way the doctors want to see it, let them intervene. I have no reason in mind not to get an epidural; I' don't really have a high pain tolerance and I also don't feel the need to be in excessive unnecessary pain, nor to do things "the all natural way."

Being pregnant is seriously hard enough. Along with how physically demanding it is, there are a million conflicting opinions and endless information readily available on what is right and what is wrong, and people just LOVE to shove that crap down your throat. People who don't know you will tell you not to lift anything heavier than a gallon of milk and "make sure you're not eating any soft cheeses, honey", etc. My favorite line I've heard so far is "Don't fall!" Yes, thanks for that. I was planning on falling at some point, definitely while pregnant, but now I won't thanks to you.

I have been fairly sensitive to everything people have said to me for the last six months and can't even tell you how many times I've been scared I've done something wrong and that it may have hurt my baby.  I wonder if the doctor's office talks about how "the crazy paranoid lady just called again," after I call with a weird question that I feel only they can answer for me. The pregnant woman's head (well, at least MINE anyway) is already full of  "what if's" mixed with fear of the unknown, on top of  everything society tries to hammer into our brains. In a nutshell,. it just makes it kind of  suck for people like me.

So sometime over the last month I have just gotten fed up with listening to anything that other's tell me, unless of course it's coming from a trained PHYSICIAN, or is positive encouragement, or the ever-welcome compliment of how great I look. So if you're reading this, and you get the urge at some point during the next two-ish months to tell me to back away from the bleu cheese-laden buffalo dip, or want to comment on my possibly too small or too large pregnant physique, please be ready for me to pay you a similar comment (unless of course you are a pregnant person - I would never do that to you).

Anyway, whatever it is you are celebrating I hope you all have a great holiday and a happy new year!!!