Pregnancy Watch 2006 - Day 2

So I am officially past my due date. I am not surprised and frankly I don't know why it bothers me so. I knew, having gone late with both the other crazies, that I would also go late with this one. Why should I get a break now? It is quite a tough thing, still, to watch my due date come and go. Quietly hoping something will happen, but knowing deep down inside nothing will. Yet still being disappointed when my deep down insides are right.

I don't so much mind being overdue. It just gets harder every day to take care of my kids and normal household things. By 5pm each night I am feeling the aches and pains of being 40 weeks pregnant. No contractions mind you, but lots of sharp pains and loads of pressure of things wanting to fall out. So here I sit, a baby inside of me probably hanging on for dear life. Does he not know the angst he causes his mother? Of course, this pain he causes me now is nothing compared to the pain he is going to be causing me once my body decides it has had enough and sends him out with the force of a watermelon being squeezed through a straw.

I am going to try and not be induced, but we will see how long I can hang in there. I have my next doctor's appointment on Monday, the 2nd. I will be 5 days overdue by that point. I'm sure if I have a need for that appointment I will be begging the doctor to do whatever it takes to get this kid out of me. This is so reminiscent of my pregnancy with London. I was 4 days late when I was induced and I had barely even dialated. He also never dropped and so I spent 1 1/2 hours pushing him down and out the birthing chute. Adelaide on the other hand (though she was 3 days late), dropped into the chute around month 7. By the time I went into labor I was quite dialated and I only had to push for 15 minutes. What is it with the boys I birth? Why do they treat me this way? Why don't they want to come out???

Local newscaster

Best (real) name I've heard in a while:

Harry Beetle

He reports the local news on Talk 650 AM. Imagine growing up with THAT name.