On Baby Watch 2008: 38 Weeks
July 15, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breastfeeding, pregnancy
Today marks 38 weeks of pregnancy. My thoughts at this point:
1. Husband home from Ireland [check]. Birth supplies bought [check]. Birth tub set up [check]. A million nesting tasks accomplished [meals in freezer - check; air vent dusted - check]. Group B Strep test negative [check].
2. Call them Braxton-Hicks, call them pre-labor, I call them “hinting at painful.”
3. Perhaps I ought to work on positive thinking and consider them not so much painful as powerful.
4. Why, when a woman is preparing to give birth and needs all the rest she can get, does she find herself with insomnia that has her awake from 2:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.?
5. When I finally fell back asleep, I dreamed I was Jessica Simpson (I think my brain confused her with Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears) and I was in high school and I had gotten pregnant by Mario Lopez (I always did think he’s cute) and I was going to track him down and hold him responsible. Gee, do you think I have any last-minute anxiety about giving birth and caring for a new baby?
I don’t get it either. The whole insomnia thing. My problem was insomnia with the inability to get comfortable. I needed the most rest and got the least. Hmph. Good luck!
Yes, me too — I get too hot, and my hips hurt so I roll from side to side, trying to get comfortable!
Jessica Simpson – that cracks me up! Must be soon now…
Pregnancy dreams are so much fun! Vivid, detailed, and often bizarre LOL