Here's a conversation I won't mind not having every day:
Coworker or Library Patron* (as though I am in the final stages of galloping consumption): How are you feeling?
Me: Good, thanks! How are you?
CoLP: You look tired.
Me: Well, I guess I am a little bit tired. Not too bad, though.
CoLP: Yeah, well you'd better enjoy life now because soon you'll be a MISERABLE SLEEPLESS WRECK! Hahahaha!
Good one.
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My due date is a week away. I wouldn't mind getting this show on the road a couple of days early, but I have a feeling it'll be more likely to run late. Any last minute advice?
*Really, all of my coworkers are great. These conversations only happen with people who work here, but aren't really my coworkers. You know?
8 comments:
Advice: drink a ton of water. I know it;s hard to consider when you're already getting up forty-eleven times a night, but being super-well hydrated makes labor go faster and easier. If they offer you IV fluids at the hospital, the proper response is "yes please." Labor is a bad time to be dehydrated!
Also, you'll feel fantastic having dropped so much weight so easily, just by shedding all the extra water you drank. It's a totally cheater-pants approach to looking like you've dropped the baby weight, but whatever works, right?
Never tell people your actual due date. Tell them a fake date that's weeks later.
Oh, oops.
Ok, how about this? From now until he arrives, as often as possible mow the lawn &/or drive around on gravel roads.
xok8
I know. But they're wrong. Just sleep whenever the baby sleeps, day or night. 3 hours, 6 x a day is pretty good odds :)
As for birthing advice, I had reflexology in the weeks up to due date with both kiddos, specifically for the purpose of not going two weeks past and having to be induced. I gave birth 1 day over due date with both. And it's always nice to have someone give you a foot rub!
I have a pet peeve about people saying to other people "You look tired." I know it's supposed to come out of concern, but I think it's rude. Because what if you're actually not tired at all? Then you feel like a hag.
Not that this has happened to me or anything. Ahem.
Looking forward to the big announcement-baby is here. You all are in my prayers.
Wow! Those nine months went fast, at least from out here in Internetland. Having birthed no babies of my own, I have no labor advice, but having worked with kids for years, my general advice is always this: trust your instincts and don't over-think stuff. Good luck!!
Thanks for the thoughts and advice, peops.
K8, I thought about lying about the due date, but nobody believes me when I tell them how far along I am anyway.
If it makes you feel any better, when I was about a month away from my due date, a clerk at Pike Place Market asked me "Soo... were you due, like, yesterday?" *headdesk*
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