'I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders. I somehow had gotten the idea that I was letting down everyone in
college in three years instead of four. I like to get places early, I like not feeling rushed, and most of all, I really, really like to plan.
I'm not saying any of this to be mean or to laugh at those sweet, naive innocents. I used to be one of them. I knew that. Of course. No one preps and plans as much as I did without taking in all the statistics, but I still thought that my baby would arrive on time because that's how we roll in this family. It didn't make logical sense, but please remember I was officially 10 months pregnant if you do the math.
On May 19, even though we'd been pretty quiet about our pregnancy on social media, friends started posing messages on my Facebook wall to the tune of"No baby yet?" and"OMG, so exciting, are you in labor right now?!" even though absolutely nothing was happening in that department. I felt like a fraud.
Ha! A nice thought. But anyone who has ever been 40 weeks pregnant, or 41, as I soon was, can tell you that the"enjoy" ship has sailed by then. I was beyond uncomfortable. It hurt to sit, it hurt to stand, and lying down was misery. My belly was so huge that lying on my side, as pregnant women are told to, caused insane hip pain. I spent my nights on the couch so my tossing and turning didn't wake my husband, flipping from side to side every hour to relieve the pain.
We had been trying all the usual tricks to get labor started since 40 weeks — spicy food, sex, rigorous walks, acupuncture, reflexology — and had reached the end of the line. As my husband had said, this baby had to come out one way or another.
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