Due Date
April 30th, 2004 at 5:15 am (uncategorized)
Me, tough?
Thursday at work, I was called “One Tough Lady” by a co-worker. Why? Because I’m still going into work and today (Friday, April 30, 2004) is my due date. I know I haven’t really talked much about it here in my blog - but I’m pregnant with our second child (supposedly a boy according to the ultrasound) and due today. I’m huge, I waddle, I go to the bathroom about a zillion times a day (Yes, sometimes I take my knitting :)). I’m starting to scare people. The look on their faces when they ask your due date and you say “Friday” is really quite amusing. I wish I could capture it with a camera and show you.
Since I’m writing this on Thursday (I schedule it to be “published” the next day, and it gives me the evening to take pictures and update as necessary) it is remotely possible I will have had the baby by the time this hits the Information Superhighway. Oh I WISH I was having the baby. I’m a watched pot that refuses to boil. So many people are waiting for me to have the baby. My MIL is coming into town on Saturday for a week to help out. The idea was the baby would be here too (somewhere besides in my belly!). I adore my MIL and it will be great to have her here, but I will feel I’ve let her down a bit if the baby doesn’t make an appearance before she leaves. My nanny is on call (she’s such a sweetie!) to come watch our first child when we need to go to the hospital. I think she’s had less sleep than me as she keeps waking up in the middle of the night to check her phone to see if I called. Ideas for what to get her to thank her for this wonderful service are appreciated.
I never went through this with my first. She was breech and would not turn, so we had a scheduled c-section with her. Friday I left work, Monday morning I had a baby. Poof! We did go to a friend’s birthday party that friday night and it was fun telling people we were having the baby on Monday, but those looks were nothing with the ones I describe above.
To make matters a bit more annoying? Ironic?… a coworker who was due a week after me (notice the was?) with her first had her baby this morning. Hmph.
So, knitting
So I’ve made some progress on my socks - I’m decided about colors for the Borg - making progress on Hardangervidda. I’m so happy that things are going well at least in this area.
