This pregnancy must be almost done.
Both other kids were born six and a half days after today in their pregnancies.
It's also done because I have started doing things that are nutty.
I cried last night when I couldn't find a water bottle I had partially frozen in freezer but didn't want Dan I get me new bottle of water or a glass with ice. I cried because it was impossible for me to locate that particular bottle of water and I felt like a failure.
I felt ashamed after everyone was in bed how short tempered and barky I talked to my family in that day.
I felt too tired to sleep and that made me teary.
I remembered that I have to start BREASTFEEDING soon or find $400/mo for formula in budget and both tasks seemed too difficult to manage. Just exhausting. And trying to manage newborn nurser with two others. And remembering how fascinating breast pump was for DHH and how few bottles EK took because I didn't have time to prepare them for her since I always had to hide the pump and then hang out with him and Dan couldn't really take over for evening feedings as a result.
I threw up because of severe reflux and cried about how terrible it is to throw up all alone at midnight and be worried about waking up someone and scaring them. And also because of the mean irony that I threw up on purpose for YEARS and now I have no desire to do so but it's unavoidable. Then I started worrying about my esophagus and cancer and holes in lining and panicked.
Then I remembered that people still die in child birth and WHAT IF I die and my kids aren't at the right age to remember me and maybe DHH will only remember me yelling at him for climbing over passenger seat in Jeep with muddy boots instead of using proper door. And EK won't know me at all and we only have a handful of photos together and she will feel so sad to not have mom memories when she is a teenager or a mother. And poor Dan. How hard would it be for him to get a date as awesome as me and when would be ever with three kids three and under.
I did sleep from 2 - 6 this morning, and I remembered my heart burn meds today, so maybe I won't be as crazy tonight at midnight and will feel even better tomorrow with more sleep and less crazy in my head.
oh friend! yes, obvious that it's going to be so soon. you are doing so great as a momma of 2 preschool/toddlers and wifey and carrier-of-almost-born-baby.
ReplyDeleteSo crazy thoughts are signs of impending labor??
DeleteI always get really weird/emotional about 24-48 hours before going in labor. With Asante I couldn't sleep all night, was up journaling and thinking and feeling emotional. With Ada, I was SO GRUMPY for about 48 hours before having her. Like, grumpy like I've never been before and not knowing why all of a sudden I was getting so bent out of shape. Aly I don't really remember, so maybe not with her. :)
DeleteHooray and hallelujah, Tiffany. That is the best news. About two hours ago I sent an SOS to my mom. I thought I was on verge of nervous breakdown. So what you say with a Ada makes sense because she is the sibling of kids who weren't kids' age at the time.
ReplyDeleteI was that way before having Emerson. I was genuinely JEALOUS AND MAD because a lady near us gave birth IN HER DRIVEWAY! lol It's hilarious now, but I just so wanted him out that I was praying the same thing would happen to me! I think you're almost there! Do you have one of those big exercise balls? I swear squatting on that thing put me into labor with Emerson.
ReplyDeleteYes I have a yoga ball... It's the source of so much anger at the kids who flip it around the house and try to hop on it and make me yell, "Stop climbing up me and jumping on me while I am on the purple yoga ball!". Today I almost popped it with scissors.
DeleteI'm so sorry to hear of your anxiety, but hoping it means labor very soon.
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