38.5 weeks but who’s counting???!!!

I feel pretty good.  I don’t feel huge (although my belly is shockingly large when I catch a glimpse in themirror and am not prepared) and I’m not in any pain.  I just feel a little bit like “ok, let’s go”.  I was spoiled by having Camryn 10 days before my due date, so I have already prepared myself mentally that I will go early.  So, if I was to be the same with this baby, I’d go into labor today or tomorrow.    Probably not going to happen.  The hard part about all of this is that I have had crazy contractions regularly.  By the time we start timing them and I make sure I have things all ready for the hospital and am ready to go call the doctor, they just fade away.  So unfair!  The good news is that I am 2 cms dilated and 80% effaced.  I’ll probably be a little more this week when I go for my 39 week check up because of all of the laboring I’ve been doing at home.  I can say that yesterday I thought that “this is it”.  The contractions were 5-10 minutes apart lasting 1 minute 30 seconds (my magic number) for about an hour.  They were uncomfortable and they’ve never really been that before.  I called the doctor and asked him was it ok if I waited until they were not bearable before I alerted him and we went to the hospital.  He agreed.

Other fun news is that I do not store iron in my body whatsoever and it’s all going to the baby.  So, I’m constantly winded and tired.  And crave rubber tire smell and gasoline.  Delightful!  So weird.  I get an iron infusion from the hemotologist on Friday if I am not already in labor at that point.

Hopefully the next time you hear from me, it will be a picture of our Jake with details about how lovely and easy my labor was

~ by bethyoung on June 2, 2009.