One of the hardest things for me to do during pregnancy and breastfeeding is to eat right. In a perfect world, I would cook every meal. I would use fresh, homegrown produce and organic ingredients. I would eat a balanced diet throughout the day, totally eliminate artificial ingredients, HFCS, and still have time to shave my legs, mop the kitchen, and fold five loads of laundry every day.
Oh man. I just made myself laugh out loud. Read more…
Perhaps I can entice this baby to come out with these knitted goodies. Come on baby! I’m ready!
Sorry to report that we are still not in labor. I’ve had some contractions, but not anything regular or even uncomfortable for that matter. I’m usually pretty chill during early labor anyway, so unless I get “serious” with the contractions, no alarms will be sounded or phone calls made.
Too bad we don’t live near Atlanta where you can get a labor-inducing eggplant parmesan! Luckily for us, they post the recipe on the website. Guess what I’m having for dinner tomorrow? We’d have it tonight, but it’s Wednesday and we have church.
So, while I sit here and wait for labor to start, you guys head over to my scrapbooking blog and join the Mystery Host blog party. There are a couple giveaways going on and the chance to earn some awesome Creative Memories host rewards.
I’m getting down to the wire here. I wish I could say that I’m in labor RIGHT NOW, so I won’t be posting for a day or two (maybe).
Thing is, with gestational diabetes, there are risks that I’m not willing to take. My OB has “taken the liberty” of scheduling a hospital induction. And my midwife (the one I’m seeing on the sly so I can have a Top Secret Homebirth (shhhh)), agrees that we should take any measure we can right now to get this show on the road.
I’ve been taking Evening Primrose Oil for the past couple weeks. Then I started some homeopathic remedies on Sunday. I’m also walking around with a makeshift maternity belt so I can get the baby into a better position. I don’t think I mentioned that I have diastasis, which causes the baby to turn “sunny side up” and NOT put pressure on my cervix.
Who knew this would end up being so complicated?
Anyway, I’m going in for a “stretch & sweep” tomorrow.
Send me all your best labor-inducing vibes, gentle readers. I really hate that we have to intervene like we do, but it really does need to be done. And I’d rather not have to do the hospital induction. Been there, done that, don’t want to do it again, thank you very much.
Well, I did it. Nice people from church asked me what kind of diapers I wanted and if I could link them to some they could find at the stores in town. I knew Target carried BumGenious and Bumkins, so I went ahead and started a registry to make it easier for people to find them.
And then I got carried away adding stuff like this:
And this:
(Is it me, or does that baby look really concerned?)
Much like last time, when I was pregnant with Simon, we had gotten rid of most of our “gear”. Not that we need a bouncer or another sling. I just thought, eh, those would be nice to have.
