Comments | picture_kept: 37 weeks today

picture_kept

37 weeks today

Sep 13, 2008 11:23

Today my baby is considered full term. I'm a little more nervous? excited? freaked? that in a very short time I will be holding an actual moving, breathing infant that my husband and I made. Just so very wild and powerful and wonderful and a little scary. I'm ready, I think, but I just haven't been able to visualize what happens after this ( Read more... )

fears, health, pregnancy, life

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picture_kept September 14 2008, 13:43:05 UTC

Thank you for the encouragement. I appreciate it.

madge_pastiche September 14 2008, 06:58:50 UTC

That last waiting period was some of the most intense suspense I ever experienced in my life! It's such a crazy time ( ... )

picture_kept September 14 2008, 13:50:30 UTC

This is good news. Thank you for chiming in! I've spent so many years as just me (and now, just a couple) so I keep looking around my house, trying to imagine one of us carrying a baby from room to room, or trying to hear baby cries, or trying to picture the whole diapering process, or trying to feel what nursing might be like. I just can't do it fully-- but I suppose it doesn't matter, for it'll happen for real soon enough. I think a lot of first pregnancy is really just varying stages of denial... for the first half I swore all those heartbeat sounds and baby pictures were all coming from the machine.

But I'm rambling now. Thank you so much for your insight. I hope I can be a help to you at some point! :)

moonchsr September 14 2008, 18:26:51 UTC

Good luck! Are you gonna choose epidural or no? I thought it was worth it! Granted...after 21+ hrs of labor...I had a c-section.

picture_kept September 14 2008, 18:33:02 UTC

Thank you, I appreciate that! No, while I can't predict every outcome, I'm actually planning to go the no-meds route.

moonchsr September 14 2008, 18:37:21 UTC

I am impressed!! :)

Seriously, that's cool! I'm all for people doing that, I'm just not that brave ;P

I knew what the pain was going to be like from the year before in the miscarriage and ...well, I didn't want to feel that again.

bassline September 25 2008, 04:37:54 UTC

Wow, it has to be a wild feeling for you and Rob reaching this point in the journey :) I'm sure you'll be out and about before you know it.

picture_kept September 25 2008, 15:00:25 UTC

I hope so! I'm still trying to wrap my head around this notion that I'm going to be a mom to someone--someone real and unique and whole-- from now on. It still is so wonderful and powerful and so hard to believe