Contraction Jackson
I've had the Conjunction Junction School House Rock song stuck in my head for several days now. Mostly because whenever I have a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions in a row, I start singing, "Contraction Jackson, what's your faction?" I know it makes no sense, but it's stuck there, so I go with it.
I've been having a lot of contractions every afternoon for about a week. Yesterday, I started having them pretty much all day long, about 3-10 minutes apart. Today, they hurt a little more. And the poor Baby is in there all intermittently wiggling around and scared into stillness. What the heck? Go Time already? I was just getting the hang of these hiccups.
My last day of work is supposed to be October 16, but we'll see if I make it that long. I've been on my rear end at home since 11:30 this morning, when I returned after a failed attempt to go to work with every-3-minute contractions. Lesson learned.
I'm hoping this all just means I'll have a really strong uterus when the time comes.
I'm getting all excited to meet him. And I'm a bit fearful about the whole baby-having experience for several reasons that I'll go into in another blog entry. It's a little too much emotional stuff for this particular time of day.
I've been having a lot of contractions every afternoon for about a week. Yesterday, I started having them pretty much all day long, about 3-10 minutes apart. Today, they hurt a little more. And the poor Baby is in there all intermittently wiggling around and scared into stillness. What the heck? Go Time already? I was just getting the hang of these hiccups.
My last day of work is supposed to be October 16, but we'll see if I make it that long. I've been on my rear end at home since 11:30 this morning, when I returned after a failed attempt to go to work with every-3-minute contractions. Lesson learned.
I'm hoping this all just means I'll have a really strong uterus when the time comes.
I'm getting all excited to meet him. And I'm a bit fearful about the whole baby-having experience for several reasons that I'll go into in another blog entry. It's a little too much emotional stuff for this particular time of day.
posted by Bert at 5:48 PM
2 Comments:
Gee, why would you be scared to have another human being get expelled from your body? You do that every day, right? :-)
I was even a little scared before my third time around. It's a Big Deal, after all. But you'll come through it, and once you have, you will be so amazed by the experience.
It is scary for sure. As Carrie said, even those of us who have been through the experience before get scared...in fact, I think I was even more afraid the second time around (but I was having medical issues that you're not, thank goodness).
The experience, though, is awesome. You will feel so empowered and strong and amazing afterward and you will be so proud of yourself for doing it. And, you will be holding the most wonderful little reward of all when it's all over.
Rest up and eat and drink plenty of fluids, though. You will need plenty of energy for when The Day does come. Will be thinking of you!!
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