bright side, briiiight side

[psocoptera]

I got to go to Chaos's awesome monthly locals-with-babies potluck and be surrounded by babies! Babies of many delightful ages and stages. Yay, babies. A little bit envy-inducing... I want to meet *my* baby and start getting to know it - will it have hair? Will it make funny faces? Who is it going to be? But mostly just neat to remember all those different stages and anticipate seeing them again. And then to get to come home and put my big girl to bed with lots of kisses and singing to each other. Almost-three-year-olds are really super awesome.

Also I am finding that this prolonged-brink-of-labor business has a marvelous sharpening effect on my sense of priorities - like, I'm able to make decisions that I normally find completely paralyzing. I was able to get rid of my college lab notebooks, which I've never been able to do because they represented so much time and effort, but, no, useless! Out! And I made some progress on picking out the pictures for our wedding album, which I hadn't touched since, uh, a couple of days before Junie was born, in fact. I guess normal people have this kind of mental clarity all the time, not just at 40.5 weeks pregnant, but hell, whatever, I'm using it while I've got it.

Comments

[irilyth]

It's possible that normal people never have that kind of mental clarity. :^) Seriously, though, I think that circumstances changing your perspective, and giving you the clarity to do something that seemed hard, isn't just a pregnancy thing; I've felt it, anyway.

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh I am jealous and want to be at that potluck. Or at least see pictures!

I imagine this is frustrating, but I also imagine that (a) this will all be a blip in the long run, once the baby is safely on the outside, and (b) your midwives have a backup plan if you go after X date without going into labor.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I don't actually have an induction booked, but at my last appointment a calendar was pointed to and likely dates were indicated (April 3rd); I'm guessing we'll formally schedule it at my next appointment, on Friday, if I'm at that appointment, unless for some reason they don't want to schedule it until after I've gotten the ultrasound which I also apparently get as a prize for making it to 41 weeks.

I am trying to be cool about the many fine possible ways by which the baby might get out and not have a stick up my ass about Natural Labor and how that would be so much better - the potluck babies are two c-sections and two inductions after unexpectedly early water breaking, so, all excellent examples that I do not need a perfect Sheila Kitzinger labor to have a perfect baby. Still, my inner ass-stick is strong (hrm, maybe that's the problem right there ::grin::), and of course if I did go into spontaneous labor, the sooner that happened, the sooner all the people who are waiting waiting waiting for the phone to ring (and reminding me of that fact) could get out of limbo... so, yeah. Some frustration.

I wish you could be here for the potluck too! We sort of talked about a group photo tonight but nobody wanted to get up. ::grin::

[kelilah.livejournal.com]

There were at least individual/small group photos; one of the dads seems to be quite a good photographer and has a good camera, so he took some utterly adorable photos of my Z. and, I think, all of the babies. We just didn't do the baby line-up, although we totally should next time, when we'll have the full complement.

Also, next time you come to the Boston area, there can be a special baby meet-up with you and yours. :^)

[aryky.livejournal.com]

I realize it's probably not much help right now, but reading this post totally gave me a nearly-unprecedented moment of wishing I was on the brink of labor! It probably helps that I just spent the last ten or fifteen minutes before reading this thinking about how completely terrible anyone other than me would find my sense of priorities. . . .

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

There's got to be an easier way. ::grin:: Also it comes with a lot of built-in limits, for example I can't really reach things on high or low shelves, so it would be very inefficient for sorting books. ::grin::

[aryky.livejournal.com]

Well, no one is trying to claim it was more than a moment! ;-)

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

Okay, my friend down here who was also hugely pregnant had a healthy girl last night. Fingers crossed!

[cereph.livejournal.com]

Hey, good job on getting rid of the college notebooks! That stuff is tough to get rid of. At one point I ditched a lot of mine, but did keep a few specific classes since I thought there might be stuff in there I'd want and had some sort of plan to go through it and type up or scanning anything actually worth keeping. Yeah, that hasn't happened. So, it's awesome that you got rid of yours.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I still have a ton of college papers, these were specifically just the lab notebooks. I did cull off some of the college papers a couple of years ago, but they could definitely use another pass. Sooo... much... stuff...