Sunday, January 17, 2010

Notta

Nothing is happening this weekend. What I felt the other night for 3 hours was a false alarm. Practice. Preparation. Braxton hicks??? Whatever it was and that I keep experiencing is for me to learn patience. So, I don't think this baby without a name is coming this weekend. Darn.

Patience. A virtue that has long left my life. Come back patience! Today we had Stake Conference at 2pm. To be honest, I was hoping to be sitting in a hospital bed than on a reasonably hard yet comfortable bench in the Provo Tabernacle. At 2pm. Right smack dab in the middle of our children's naptime. They were fed previously but Jocelyn claimed, out loud, that she was huuuuungry. The only thing I really gleaned from the 2 hour experience was that Tim Slover, a very good playwright, is one of the high councilmen. And that Dr. Staehli, from BYU, was released from the same position. And I also learned that if you are locked under stubble left from an earthquake with an infant that you can feed it your own blood to keep it alive. ? Who knew? Needless to say, the kids were pretty awful. Makes us wonder why we even try to go and if they are feeling the spirit at all or just finding more reason to "hate" church.

While I've had to "wait" for this baby to come I've done a lot of things on my Nesting list. Our house is the cleanest it's ever been all at once. The living room is picked up and dusted. The rocking chair waiting for a baby to be rocked in. My bedroom is re-organized and all set up complete with porta-crib, changing table, baby monitor, diapers, burp cloths, etc; the bathroom organized and cleaned; the kitchen nearly spotless save the fridge. I finally hung up the winter coats instead of staying in the pile on the floor hidden behind a door; I made two canvas bags for Tyler's chess pieces; organized the books on the living room bookshelves; hung mirrors; re-foiled stove units; packed the hospital bag. Ran errands all week long trying to walk as much as possible. Just waiting. I can't call anyone in my family without immediately saying, "No, I'm not in the hospital" right away so they don't get too excited.

This babe keeps dropping lower and lower each morning. She can't get much lower without crowning. I keep hoping contractions will become more regular and stronger but to no avail. My mom keeps warning me that it's okay to let her "bake" all the way. In Europe, and other countries, their due dates are at 41 or 42 weeks, after all. I think I was spoiled with having Jocelyn 12 days early.

The kids are acting out. I should have expected it. They know something is going to change. They can sense I am focused on the baby. They are excited for the baby to come but I don't think they realize how much it will change all of our lives in small ways. How sleep deprived I will be. How quiet we'll have to be. How much attention she'll demand and take away from them. None of us are ready for that yet.

10 comments:

  1. I feel your pain!! Eva was 5 days late and it seamed like 3 weeks late! Good luck!!

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  2. You'll do fine, and she'll come when she's ready. I know it's hard at the end, but you can make it! Hang in there. Hope she comes soon.... what is your actual due date?

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  3. Oh the waiting- Enjoy it while it lasts. Sleep deprived is hard to deal with....
    Although your kids are going to absolutly adore her!!

    Your prego pics are cute....Alex too!

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  4. Best of luck for when she finally arrives. :)

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  5. your profile pic looks like you wearing a snuggie. sorry , but its funny. you look cute though. wow i should come over to see your house completley clean, i guess when the bouncing baby bumbkin arrives i will. p.s. i like madeline.

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  6. So... I started my labor with acupuncture. Maybe it was a coincidence, but maybe you could jump start her arrival! Just a thought. E-mail me if you want the details. tkeetch at gmail

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  7. I am still doing the fam blog, but the SuperMama one is *hopefully* going to get a lot of visibility and I wasn't sure I wanted everyone that looked at my profile to see the family blog there. :)

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  8. i know i never leave comments on any blogs anymore...but i am here! just wanted to say everything will be okay. you will all adapt as this new little baby becomes part of your family! hope she comes soon~!!!! lots of love!

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  9. These last days are the WORST!!! And most forms of encouragement really don't help!!! All I can say is that when the baby comes, hopefully your kids will adjust better than you expect...if not, movies have come to help me a bunch...and preschool for Jackson! I hope you have that baby soon!!!

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  10. Ya know--I have never figured out the whole pregnancy, contraction, labor thingy. Every baby has been so completely different, you'd think it was a different woman giving birth to each one. (Even my aches and pains are never the same...with rem it was back pain, with indi it was pelvic and other lovely areas pain, walker was bliss but my hips never spread and my body refused to prepare for birth, adn this one--well, at least she is following the girl pattern, but I could do without the pain in the "lovely" areas...
    : )

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