Comments | barbituratecat: Seriously.

barbituratecat

Seriously.

Mar 28, 2011 11:21

Still pregnant. Just reaching the 42 week mark. Fetal assessment says he'll be around 10lbs! OH JOY.

This prompted my aunts to say "don't worry, she comes from 'good breeding stock'", which makes me feel pretty awkward. I really don't think anything is going to make this baby decide to come out.

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pocketed March 28 2011, 20:18:24 UTC

10 pounds. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeez. D:

Also, what the hell, "good breeding stock"? Wouldn't that apply to any family that has successfully popped babies out? As in, every family still here today?

Or is this some awkward comment about hips? I can't decide which is weirder.

barbituratecat March 28 2011, 22:35:48 UTC

Yeah, I was like... "WHAT does that mean?!?" Apparently it was some reference to the fact that they all had 3 kids, relatively large, with no epidurals/etc. But they seem to be forgetting that I am barely over 5 feet, and they're all a good five/six inches taller than I am.

But still, what a weird thing to say!

zombieheart March 28 2011, 20:20:40 UTC

Anecdata: every woman I've spoken to who have had a more average-sized baby and a double digit baby has said that the double digit baby was way easier to push out. Little chubbers are squishier, I guess? :)

Favourite approaching/beginning post-dates activity: going shopping and watching their face when random stranger goes "Oh! Babies, babies babies! When are you due?" and they realize they heard "Two weeks ago!" ;D

barbituratecat March 29 2011, 02:40:43 UTC

Apparently it's not weight that may cause a problem, but shoulders. Brad has reeaallly broad shoulders, and I have basically "no hips at all" according to the really 'fantastic' nurse at my appointment today, so if he takes after his father this may be a long and/or uncomfortable labour.

Thankfully no one has mentioned the C word, aside from my family. But that's hella NOT gonna happen unless something is seriously wrong [which I doubt], because of recovery time/family history with that whole thing where we die under anesthetic and all.

pureaddiction March 28 2011, 21:43:40 UTC

Omg. More power to you. I'd be yelling at it to evacuate my womb by now.

barbituratecat March 29 2011, 02:44:09 UTC

That's pretty much our routine. "ARE YOU COMING OUT YET?!?" We even tell Maddy to yell at my belly and "make her brother come out and say hi".

My OB was stunned at how big this baby is going to be. Maddy was just over 7 pounds, and at my mid-trimester [is that a thing?] ultrasound, this one was in the 15th percentile. So my OB is all "Oh yeah that's totally fine, no problems!" - until he gets the result of the 41 week fetal assessment, where is is now 90thpercentile. The first thing the doctor said when he came in to the room was "What did you DO to make this one so big?!" [I didn't want to tell him "Oh I disregarded every single precaution pregnant women are supposed to take. I ate a lot of raw fish and drank a lot of coffee and basically was a horrible woman for this entire thing."]

shalimar77777 March 31 2011, 01:51:14 UTC

Huge congrats! I've been gone so long that you've gone through almost an entire pregnancy in my absence!

BTW - I was two weeks late and 9.6 pounds. My mom was nearly certain I had an easy chair in there and had zero plans to leave.

Did you play a lot of videogames in the late stages of your pregnancy? I'd always imagined that if I got pregnant I would spend nearly all of the third trimester finishing campaigns of all those games I had sitting around. XD