Dear Overdue Pregnant Woman...
We have been lied to. We've been told that our babies eventually will come out - that we won't be pregnant forever. It's not true. We are the .08% of women who actually remain pregnant forever. It's the wildest phenomenon. Do not be discouraged though. Even though our due dates have passed and now we are going on 10 months of pregnancy plus, there are some pros to our prolonged state of swollen, achey selves.
1. Free Food - Being so obviously due to give birth at any moment, folks have sympathy/pity/whatever you want to call it and will give you extra everything. Just recently on a stop at SF Boudin (yummy place!), I was given free cookies, bread bowls, and chips with my order (because clearly I could afford to put on a few pounds...ha!).
2. Extra Help - I won't lie. When I leave the grocery store, for 10 minutes I have my own personal assistant load my groceries in the car. It's wonderful! If only they could come home with me and put them away. Just picture being pregnant forever and always having someone offer to help load your car!
3. Friendly Faces - It's validating for others to acknowledge the great discomfort that prolonged pregnancy brings (especially in our case of being pregnant forever!).
4. Maternity clothes - Stretchy pants!!!! Need I say more? ;)
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It's Christmas Eve. I'm either 40+6 or 41+5 past my due date. I had honestly envisioned at least being in the hospital for Christmas if not home with my brand my new baby. To be honest, I am not anxious at all about finding out the baby's gender (maybe its because we still aren't settled on names). I am anxious about LABOR itself! That is my mental hurdle. Once I cross that, I can get lost in the new baby fog of joy and zombie bliss.
We walked around Sea World with some good friends today. Cash had so much fun with his little buddy, Amina. We walked almost three miles and then knocked out some grocery shopping. I pushed myself hard today! And now this little baby is moving more than he/she ever has and my two boys have fallen asleep on the couch underneath the glow of the Christmas tree. It's wild to think that Mary anticipated her delivery with baby Jesus in the same way I am anticipating the delivery of this one. And if Jesus slept in a barn as a new baby, I'm pretty sure my new baby will be okay even if we haven't trapped the darn rat living in our kitchen yet.
1. Free Food - Being so obviously due to give birth at any moment, folks have sympathy/pity/whatever you want to call it and will give you extra everything. Just recently on a stop at SF Boudin (yummy place!), I was given free cookies, bread bowls, and chips with my order (because clearly I could afford to put on a few pounds...ha!).
2. Extra Help - I won't lie. When I leave the grocery store, for 10 minutes I have my own personal assistant load my groceries in the car. It's wonderful! If only they could come home with me and put them away. Just picture being pregnant forever and always having someone offer to help load your car!
3. Friendly Faces - It's validating for others to acknowledge the great discomfort that prolonged pregnancy brings (especially in our case of being pregnant forever!).
4. Maternity clothes - Stretchy pants!!!! Need I say more? ;)
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It's Christmas Eve. I'm either 40+6 or 41+5 past my due date. I had honestly envisioned at least being in the hospital for Christmas if not home with my brand my new baby. To be honest, I am not anxious at all about finding out the baby's gender (maybe its because we still aren't settled on names). I am anxious about LABOR itself! That is my mental hurdle. Once I cross that, I can get lost in the new baby fog of joy and zombie bliss.
We walked around Sea World with some good friends today. Cash had so much fun with his little buddy, Amina. We walked almost three miles and then knocked out some grocery shopping. I pushed myself hard today! And now this little baby is moving more than he/she ever has and my two boys have fallen asleep on the couch underneath the glow of the Christmas tree. It's wild to think that Mary anticipated her delivery with baby Jesus in the same way I am anticipating the delivery of this one. And if Jesus slept in a barn as a new baby, I'm pretty sure my new baby will be okay even if we haven't trapped the darn rat living in our kitchen yet.
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