Still Pregnant!

As the hours melt away it is looking increasingly like I will still be pregnant on Monday. My contractions are harder, but still not regular. As I relax and get more sleep on the weekend, they get less and less frequent. I am walking and doing all those things you are suppose to do to get your baby out, but, just like with your sister, it isn't working.

It isn't terribly difficult physically to be "still pregnant". It is more difficult this time around because every little thing makes me feel like I am going to launch into labor. If I feel a little queasy, it is because my body is getting ready for labor. If my back hurts, it is because of the contractions. If I sprain my ankle, it is because my joints are really loose waiting for the baby.

The difficult part is telling people that I am still pregnant. When I call people, I always start the conversation, no baby yet. I am getting to the point that when I miss a call, I am not returning it. The messages are piling up on my cell phone, but I just don't have the heart to tell people that I am still pregnant and hear the disappointment in their voice. When people see me, they look pretty disappointed. The worse is work when people ask me why I am still there. There are a million smart ass answers for it, but usually I just tell them that I have no maternity leave. Everyone should have voted Democrat. (not that it would change anything, but that doesn't make it any less true)

The thing is that it isn't as heartbreaking as it was with your sister. With your sister, I had no guage on how long I cook my babies. I cook them a long time and that is okay, because there are good things about a naturally occurring and late child birth.

1. When you are on the elevator with the close talker at work, he doesn't stand so close to you because your belly is in the way.
2. Homeless people don't bother you with comments about how fine you are, rather, they want to talk with you about your baby (which is nice)
3. You don't have to listen to other's labor stories because you have already been cooking your baby longer than they did.
4. Your baby isn't premature nor does he have all of the things that you have to worry about with an early term baby. (most important).
5. Having a natural labor increases my recovery time and decreases the changes of complications.
6. A bigger baby means more weight to work with if something should go wrong with feeding (as it did with your sister).
7. A bigger baby means a bigger stomach which means faster sleeping (because we all believe that!)

Even with all that being said GET OUT!