I’m in the final stretches. Saturday I had tons of contractions and was starting to feel like a ticking time bomb. The Braxton-Hicks contractions can commonly go on for a week or longer, so I wasn’t feeling like I was about to go into labor, but Tom wanted me to call the midwives before I went to bed just in case. I didn’t and it was fine. I gave them an update on Sunday morning. Things slowed down Sunday and today. Still contractions but not as intense of close together as Saturday. Though things get a little uncomfortable in late afternoon/evening. I’m doing my best to get as much sleep at night as possible. The muscles get so tight it’s hard to get comfortable. Still I’ve managed to have some pretty good nights of sleep.
We had a fun, mellow weekend. Seemed like there was more stuff to do than we ended up doing. Sunday we went to a beer fest/craft sale at the Portland nursery and saw our old neighbors. We went to Chez Machin for dinner on Hawthorne. It was super yummy. I want to go back there. Sunday morning was dog park fun and in the afternoon we picked up a baby swing from our realtor. Super sweet of him to think of us. Saturday we went to lunch at my friend Casey’s and hung out in her backyard. That was so fun, we just continued the day by hanging out in our own backyard. We did carious things around the house and had a nice rib dinner.
Last week went by so fast. My hips were really buggin’ me so I slowed down a lot and wasn’t doing as much walking. I was super tired too so there were lots of naps. I have a little more energy this week. Seems so strange I’m already starting week three of no work. If I had taken a vacation, it would have already been over by now. I’ve been so busy getting house stuff done, and there always feels like there is more and more to do. I know it’s going to be a challenge being self motivated about work once the baby arrives and we settle into a schedule. I’m going to have to make sure I carve out time for work every day. Otherwise, it’ll just turn into errand after errand and chore after chore and all the days will just fly by without any work getting accomplished. Self paced work with a tiny baby at home will be interesting to say the least.
I still don’t feel like I’m about to have a baby and become a mother. It’s too abstract. I’m just going to have to take it day by day. I still feel good, though Saturday with all the contractions and pressure on my pelvis, it was very hard to get up off the ground when I sat down. But still tying my shoes, still picking stuff off the ground, still feeling mobile, I just can’t walk very fast or I get pains in my hip.
I’m definitely having trouble adjusting to “down time.” I realize I need breaks and I take them, but it isn’t 5 minutes before I want to get up and do something else. I’m not good at “idle.” I got a little bit of drawing done, not as much as I wanted, but I got a lot of quilting done. Quilting is turning out to be a good idle time activity.