Labor Watch 2009

Lots To Do: When Your Baby’s Overdue

by heirtoblair on November 15, 2012

I’m going to put it out there, say it loud & proud, & I want you all to join me: IT SUCKS TO BE OVERDUE. Forty-plus weeks pregnant, in a full-on waddle with swelling, sitting behind a desk in a pencil skirt. That was me back in October 2009 & I will never forget the [...]

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When being overdue really is being overdue.

by heirtoblair on November 13, 2012

When I found out I was pregnant, the nurse gave my baby a gestational age based on the start of my last menstrual date, even though I knew that I didn’t ovulate 14 days into my cycle. So when the little beating heart on the ultrasound screen was measuring 3 days “smaller” than the gestational [...]

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Stick a fork in me, I’m done!

by heirtoblair on October 12, 2009

I’M HAVING A BABY TOMORROW. ::screeching halt:: Say what? I thought the induction was Friday! Enter in today’s marathon of an OB visit — ultrasound at 12, followed by lunch break, cup-peeing, then a long NST (non-stress test), followed by internal & visit with the OB. Praise God for the lunch break at Qdoba with [...]

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When Momma said "Be careful what you wish for,"

by heirtoblair on October 9, 2009

I totally thought she was talking about the relationship between an all-you-can-eat monkey bread buffet & the subsequent 10 lbs on your left ass cheek. Or wishing your ex would come down with a venereal disease, only to find out that he did while cheating on you. (for those curious, the first was an actual [...]

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaand….

by heirtoblair on October 9, 2009

nothing. nada. zilch. ::sigh:: I wanted this to be it so badly, but here I sit in bed feeling perfectly fine & normal while Doug snores beside me. Also, just as a side note…I’ve been getting laid every night for the past two weeks. Lack of sex is not the reason for my cervix not [...]

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