Zooma

Sorry to obsess

But I feel like that person who’s stuck on the carousel, on the horse that doesn’t go up and down.  All the other people are on the fun horses, the ones that go up and down and are oh so pretty while I sit wistfully on the dud of a horse.  Or maybe even in [...]

40

Well, today I’m 40 weeks pregnant.  As in, hellloooo due date.  Due to have this baby.  And while I’m ready, no one else seems to be.

I went to the OB on Thursday and he said this baby is as snug as can be.  He/she is way up there, not even close to the gates to [...]

On top of spaghetti

Last night I dragged my family across town in rush hour traffic on the “promise” that eggplant parmesan from Scalini’s would put me into labor within 48 hours of consuming it.  This was our third trip, the first for this pregnancy, and it had yet to put me into labor but that didn’t mean I [...]

An expectant mothers wish

When I was pregnant with Courtney, it never once occurred to me that I would need a c-section.  Not once.  And why would it?  She was head down, all the signs pointed to a normal vaginal birth, I’d never once talked c-section with my OB, it just wasn’t in the cards for me.  Or so [...]

T-minus Eight days, I’m hoping for less

The past few days have been very trying.  I’m still pregnant, I’m still not sleeping, and I’m crazy uncomfortable.  My appointment on Thursday showed that there was actual progress in the get-out-of-my-belly school of pregnancy.  I am (or was) 2-3 centimeters dilated, 50% effaced with a -2 station.  I wasn’t expecting that.  Not at all.  [...]