If you have a queasy stomach...or are a man, I wouldn't suggest reading this one! lol! Even my dear husband doesn't want to hear about my possible mucus plug, and he's been very cool and understanding about all the grossest parts of pregnancy.
Here I am with less than 5 weeks to go, and all week I've been feeling different. I've been less and less comfortable, I've been more and more nauseous, my nesting has calmed a little bit, but I still feel the need to clean...(I'm just not cleaning so much I'm scraping paint off the stove anymore!) I just feel different! There is more pressure and more of what I think are Braxton Hicks contractions. (I'm really not sure, having never experienced them before, but they sound like what has been described.) Oh, and I'm in the bathroom every 5 minutes...either peeing or "the other one". Michael is kind of blowing it off as "wishful thinking" on my part, and maybe it is. This close to the end, I am very much looking forward to meeting my baby! (Even if I'm not looking forward to how the baby must get here!) This thing is, I have NO reason to think I'll have this baby early! I have had a shockingly easy pregnancy...sure I had morning sickness for 20 weeks, but considering the doctors have no clue how I managed to get pregnant, or if I'd be able to stay that way, this has been a very, very easy pregnancy for me!
Easy enough that I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Things don't usually come this easily for me, especially things I want so very badly...I'm just worried that it has been so easy and now something is going to hit me from the side here at the end!
I HAVE felt like I might be "damper" down there the last few days, but am not sure if I might have a small amniotic leak or if I'm just not as in control of my bladder as I used to be. (I pee myself almost every time I sneeze or cough or laugh now...it's really embarrassing, and I hope I go back to normal when the Little One gets here!) Then today, I go to the bathroom for the upteenth time and find a little wad of what looks like snotty mucus on the toilet paper after I wipe. It literally looked like I blew my nose...but from "down there". There was no bloody tinge to it, but I don't know if that happens all the time or not. I do know that you can lose your mucus plug in bits and pieces, and that it can happen for WEEKS before you actually go into labor, but it still alarmed me a bit. I feel ready, but what if I'm not??? What if the baby isn't yet, but comes early anyways???
I told the baby, as soon as he/she is ready, 100% ready, (lungs, organs, brain function, etc.) they can come...though I did request that they wait until after this weekend. (We are doing my belly cast this weekend, and I really want to get that done! We're also cleaning out the car and installing the car seat.) While I have no reason to think s/he is coming early, I just feel like I need to be ready NOW. We even bought the stuff today for an Easter basket, even though I'm not due until 2 days after Easter...I would feel like such a terrible mother if my baby didn't have an Easter basket their first Easter!
I'm wondering if I'm nuts and this really is just wishful thinking, or if some kind of mothering instinct is kicking in and letting me know that I need to be ready now! I guess I'll find out soon enough!
Thanks for Reading!
Easy enough that I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Things don't usually come this easily for me, especially things I want so very badly...I'm just worried that it has been so easy and now something is going to hit me from the side here at the end!
I HAVE felt like I might be "damper" down there the last few days, but am not sure if I might have a small amniotic leak or if I'm just not as in control of my bladder as I used to be. (I pee myself almost every time I sneeze or cough or laugh now...it's really embarrassing, and I hope I go back to normal when the Little One gets here!) Then today, I go to the bathroom for the upteenth time and find a little wad of what looks like snotty mucus on the toilet paper after I wipe. It literally looked like I blew my nose...but from "down there". There was no bloody tinge to it, but I don't know if that happens all the time or not. I do know that you can lose your mucus plug in bits and pieces, and that it can happen for WEEKS before you actually go into labor, but it still alarmed me a bit. I feel ready, but what if I'm not??? What if the baby isn't yet, but comes early anyways???
I told the baby, as soon as he/she is ready, 100% ready, (lungs, organs, brain function, etc.) they can come...though I did request that they wait until after this weekend. (We are doing my belly cast this weekend, and I really want to get that done! We're also cleaning out the car and installing the car seat.) While I have no reason to think s/he is coming early, I just feel like I need to be ready NOW. We even bought the stuff today for an Easter basket, even though I'm not due until 2 days after Easter...I would feel like such a terrible mother if my baby didn't have an Easter basket their first Easter!
I'm wondering if I'm nuts and this really is just wishful thinking, or if some kind of mothering instinct is kicking in and letting me know that I need to be ready now! I guess I'll find out soon enough!
Thanks for Reading!
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