38 Weeks

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No progress AT ALL. Been the same for 3 weeks now. 1cm dialated and 50-75% dialated. Gave me the option to strip my membranes but told me it doesn’t really help anything unless you’re dialated more, it mostly would’ve just caused a very uncomfortable day. I opted not to as comfortability is already non-existent. I really liked my midwife today though. She was really nice and honest and helped me stay positive. Thankfully his growth spurt is tapering off now (hooray!) and though he will still be fairly large (7-8 lbs they are estimating) he won’t be large enough to kill me. It’s no secret that I have been hoping he’d be early but now that they aren’t warning me that he will be (instead they are telling me to prepare for an overdue baby!) I’m surprisingly okay with it. I think if I mentally prepared for my due date or over from the start it would’ve been a lot less stressful. Only a week and a half til my due date so here’s hoping! I do admit I will miss some things about being pregnant.

I will miss:

Feeling him moving around
Seeing Tim try to talk to him thru my tummy
His kicks in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep
Tickling his feet and feeling him try to hide
Hearing Tim say,”Hi-yah!” when he feels him kick (he’s training him to be a ninja)
Seeing my stomach move in all sorts of wacky ways

Things I will NOT miss:

The extra poundage & water retension
The penguin walk I’ve been sporting the last few weeks
Taking 5 minutes just to roll over in bed
Being limited to sleeping on my sides
Not being able to cuddle with Tim
Not being able to reach my feet

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