We went for our weekly midwife appointment today.
Everything seems to be okay. I’m 39 weeks. Almost 40 weeks. For those
of you who aren’t absolutely facinated by everything pregnancy related
(for shame!) 40 weeks is “full gestation”. 38 weeks is medically
full-term. Anyway, she’s concerned about my weight gain. The truth is
though, and I think this made her feel better about it, with Joseph, I
gave birth at 36 weeks (3 weeks ago for this pregnancy), and yet was
about 10 pounds heavier. I’m also swollen in my ankles and feet, but
it’s worse in my right side. She thinks that it’s from blocked
circulation, ’cause the baby seems to be getting really big. But that
it’s nothing to worry about, since my blood pressure isn’t moving up
(or down for that matter). She won’t recommend anything to make labor
come on for about another 2 weeks. I wasn’t too thrilled about that.
She thinks I’ll be about one more week. Jay thinks that I’ll have the
baby Wednesday night. I think I’ll be overdue. My friend Amy thinks
I’ll go on Friday. Too bad there’s no money riding on this little pool
we’ve got going on.
The midwife gave me some foods that will help with the swelling, all
stuff that I can palate. That’s no problem, just have to pick it up on
the next shopping trip. She also said to walk. That’s not really an
option here. One, I just don’t feel like it. Beyond that though, we
don’t have sidewalks on my street. You have to be very careful, ’cause
it’s so busy, and I’m not exactly in a position of fast moving out of
the way. Plus, I should take Joseph, in his stroller, and I don’t feel
safe doing that here. They are installing sidewalks, now it turns out,
but I’ll have had the baby by then. She also said that if I could find
a pool, and dunk up to my neck and sit there, that would help with the
swelling. I don’t really understand how it works, but somehow, it
displaces the water in your body, and the swelling fluid goes back into
your system. She said that I’ll probably feel like peeing a lot
afterward, and that’s the fluid from the swelling. We only know one
person with a pool, and that’s my friend Amy. I felt awful to just sort
of invite myself over, but Jay really wanted me two. His motives aren’t
all that altruistic though :). He’s off tomorrow night, and I’m sure he
wants to see Dana, Amy’s boyfriend. So, I called, and she said to come
on over tomorrow. My mom will watch Joseph, since my mom says that Jay
and I should be alone every once in a while. In addition to that
though, she said to just come whenever I want to, that they never lock
the gates, and feel free to use the pool. They have a dog, but Toby
isn’t exactly the ummm, watchdog type. The only thing is, it takes
about a 1/2 hour to get there. We’ll see. We’re going tomorrow
afternoon though, we know that. It will be truly lovely. We’re
currently in a heatwave. I mean a serious heatwave. right now there are
some serious brushfires, with evacuated homes, etc. ’cause of our
current heatwave. It makes me feel almost sick, and the swelling gets A
LOT worse. We don’t have central air, but we have a couple of ceiling
fans, and two window a/c’s. But it’s so hot that the a/c’s are pumping
out warm air (and they are in working condition). So getting into a
pool will be so nice. And Dana always keeps his pool all nice and
pretty and stuff. And I always feel welcome there. It’ll be nice.
You would think that I would be able to stay on one topic in a given
paragraph. Anyway, I apologize for the insignificant babble. I’m trying
to get back into this updating regularly thing… I don’t have much to
talk about, since I do stay home, and we don’t have a huge social life.
So when something happens, such as a heatwave or doctor’s appointment,
it’s news for my journal. I realized something when I was doing the
redesign to pare down for the server. I didn’t really read my archives,
but I glanced at a line or two. I found out that this was a venting
lifeline when Joseph was first born. I don’t want to lose that. So,
I’ve joined some collaborations, and connected to some writing prompt
links, so that maybe I’ll actually have something to write about. Both
for your sanity and mine.
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