"You mean like AFTER my due date?"
"Just in your office?"
"With no induction scheduled?"
::head scratch::
I've never been in an OB's office during my 40th week. With June, my water broke at 39 weeks. Josh and Eliz's inductions were scheduled right at their due dates, at their 39 week appts. New territory. Admittedly, I was pretty bummed Tuesday to see no light at the end of the tunnel and just a standard appointment as the next step.
Now that a few days have passed, I'm feeling a bit differently... the longer she waits to come, the closer to Christmas we are, the more time around Christmas Jim gets off (which to me just seems like a cool dynamic). Plus, after 2 inductions, it would be cool to experience spontaneous labor. So we wait...
Quite possibly, she won't be here by Tuesday and we will talk about induction and she'll even wait around until we schedule one. Time will tell.
The new dynamic if the overwhelming feeling of "wait." I painted all things paintable 2 weeks ago. I cleaned like a nut a week ago. I've organized over the last few months. So... now... I'm kinda bored. I've done my "to-do"s. Even our schedule is wiped clean. Last weekend was Christmas tree and decorating. The week before that was wrapping Christmas gifts. This weekend has been clear because we didn't know what the baby's state would be. Since we are just still hanging out and cooking her, we have nothing to do. My calendar has looked PACKED with appointments, projects, outings, etc and when you look at next week it's clear.
A clear schedule isn't a bad thing, but uh, it makes the minutes tick a tad slower. It's not a bad thing. Things will get shaken up once she's here and then her baptism happens, and Christmas comes and then I'm on my own with the 4 of them, so the calm before the storm is kinda nice, but in the moment... especially after feeling so busy for weeks of prepping... it just feels kinda, boring. ;)
I could go buy 2 more doorknobs for upstairs which would, in turn, spur me onto painting the doors and trim of my bedroom and upstairs bath... but that means $30, about and hour, and a trip to Home Depot with the 3 Musketeers.
We'll see... in the meantime... we wait.
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