My due date has arrived, and it's not as exciting as I thought it would be because... I'm not in labor yet! And I have no idea when this event will occur. But I feel relieved to have the labor pool inflated and set up in our bedroom! It seriously takes up half the room, and it's a big room. My midwife was definitely mistaken, she said we had the small pool, but this cannot be the small pool. It even has cup holders, 3 of them, along the sides! I'm gonna have it made, man. I got a little worried last night when the sink adaptor didn't seem to fit onto the sink and the hose, but lo and behold it works now because Jamie is better than I at such things. :) Today certainly would be a very pleasant day to be in labor, with the cool breeze going. Yesterday would've been cool too, and despite the pressure I was getting from my mother to push that baby out before 11:59 last night, I'm afraid my baby won't have an 8-08-08 birthday after all. And no, the pressure hasn't stopped, she called this morning and asked if I had the baby yet. I said yes, it just popped out this morning because, well, it is my due date, the day it's due.
But statistically, first time laboring women do not deliver their babies until 10 days past their due date. So, we'll see how average I am. And, frankly, I could use a few more days to get our little office area organized and do some filing. And I could get into better shape by walking some more and doing some more yoga poses so that I'm pumped up for the big day. I haven't been doing any of that lately. I'm a bad pregnant woman...
...And it would be nice to go swimming again, in the ocean preferably, but anywhere would do I suppose. I've just loved swimming lately. I think the baby's gonna be a swimmer, a merbaby like it's mermaid mama. And not to brag, because well, I am a mermaid, but I find it very funny that down the shore there are few who actually swim in the ocean while I, a big ol' white preggo in a bikini, can't get enough of it! I don't go to tan, that's for sure... and it is a hassle to lather up again and again, but so worth it to be with the ocean. But I don't think it's gonna happen because it would not be fun to be in labor and in the car headed back home from the shore. Oh no.
I do have a pool in my bedroom now... but that's a sacred pool, not to be used for leisure, but only for my baby's immersion into this world and out of my body. I think I'm going to print out some mermaid pictures to post on my wall around the pool for inspiration during labor. I'll never get too old to pretend to be a mermaid in the water... even while in labor. I wonder what else I could put up for inspiration... maybe big words of encouragement, like "Open", "Surrender", "The stronger it feels, the better it works"...etc.
Okay, I gotta go, the baby wants me to go for a walk now...
3 comments:
Thinking about you...can't wait to see the new addition to your family! Let me know if you need anything!
THose sound like great words of encouragement! Definitely post those up...they'll help! And remember too, God is with you...my doula reminded me of that while I was in labor, and that certainly helped too! He will guide you through it! You're going to do great!
Thank you both!
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