Bored now
Okay, I'm about a maximum of five days out from Kay's birth assuming she doesn't decide to come on. My due date is actually in three days with today actually being when the ultrasounds said she would come. Regardless, I was told she could come anytime and as such I have been mentally waiting for her ever since I was first told this. I suck at waiting. I'm one majorly impatient little monkey. Well, I'm 3cm dilated, about 50% or a little more effaced, my hips have separated and she feels like she wants to fall out. Problem is that I'm not contracting too seriously anymore. I'm all ready to get this job done and Kay decides to get comfy. I think my plug has even come out, *sigh*. There are unpleasant things happening too. With separated hips, it's hard to walk, sit, lay down and pretty much anything else. With excess amniotic fluid, the pressure in my abdomen is pretty severe. This causes various discomforts such as it being hard to move, bend, eat, breathe, pee and now, there is enough pressure pressing downward that I have developed teh 'roids. This results in the need to take fiber in addition to what I've been eating to be sure that it can heal. So, now I have Psillium gas, amniotic pressure and assuming I want to eat, breathe bend or anything else, I pretty much don't have the room for it. TOO MUCH PRESSURE! That can't make it any easier to get rid of the 'roids. I know this is major honk'n TMI but I'm too tired, too uncomfortable and too put out on so many levels to really give a rats ass.
I'm also easily irritable so I hate to be around people lest I vent my metaphorical spleen upon them for what may or may not be their fault. I have generally avoided the natural pregnant aggo=ness on purpose because I don't think that pregnant women have a right to just be that way if they can avoid it. Sometimes it just happens but if it can be avoided, then she should- it's fair, I mean she knows that her hormones could be affecting her so it behooves her to not do things that she would wish she hadn't once the hormones were gone. However, I feel that way almost all the time now and it gets lonely.
Anyway, my doctor says that since Kay is head down and I have so much fluid, they may want to put a pin prick in my amniotic sac if she is not born in the next week. That way they can ever so slowly evacuate some of the fluid and ease her, still head down and sans cord, into a better spot. I can understand that reasoning. She doesn't want to do pitocin or any other intervention into my pregnancy and neither of us think she will need to. However, while Kay is head down, the cord is not in a bad spot and Kay is still about 8lbs, I think this isn't a bad idea. The doctor honestly thinks it would be enough to tip me over into active labor if I hadn't already on my own. I just like that she wants me to do this as naturally as possible, she's paying attention to my problems and really is on top of it all- even my fibro, unlike most doctors. She says that this won't stop me from walking, showering, rocking or any of the other things that I want to do to help with my labor and I really like that too. So, basically if I don't have Kay between now and Thursday, I will have her on the 8th because it is breaking my waters...just very, very slowly.
Now, I go back to watching KOF and hoping that my daughter will hurry her darl'n little tush up.
I'm also easily irritable so I hate to be around people lest I vent my metaphorical spleen upon them for what may or may not be their fault. I have generally avoided the natural pregnant aggo=ness on purpose because I don't think that pregnant women have a right to just be that way if they can avoid it. Sometimes it just happens but if it can be avoided, then she should- it's fair, I mean she knows that her hormones could be affecting her so it behooves her to not do things that she would wish she hadn't once the hormones were gone. However, I feel that way almost all the time now and it gets lonely.
Anyway, my doctor says that since Kay is head down and I have so much fluid, they may want to put a pin prick in my amniotic sac if she is not born in the next week. That way they can ever so slowly evacuate some of the fluid and ease her, still head down and sans cord, into a better spot. I can understand that reasoning. She doesn't want to do pitocin or any other intervention into my pregnancy and neither of us think she will need to. However, while Kay is head down, the cord is not in a bad spot and Kay is still about 8lbs, I think this isn't a bad idea. The doctor honestly thinks it would be enough to tip me over into active labor if I hadn't already on my own. I just like that she wants me to do this as naturally as possible, she's paying attention to my problems and really is on top of it all- even my fibro, unlike most doctors. She says that this won't stop me from walking, showering, rocking or any of the other things that I want to do to help with my labor and I really like that too. So, basically if I don't have Kay between now and Thursday, I will have her on the 8th because it is breaking my waters...just very, very slowly.
Now, I go back to watching KOF and hoping that my daughter will hurry her darl'n little tush up.