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July 19, 2007
when the coast is clear
33.5 wks
As I walked to my haircut today, I briefly cursed the humidity. But then I realized that it is only in the high 70s. I remembered how I would spend chunks of my summer outside at summer camp without air conditioning in arkansas in 90+ heat. We would always say it isn't the heat, but the humidity. It is great weather today, though a touch humid.
i miss summer camp. i miss being in the woods, spending the afternoons at the swimming pool and the evenings around the campfire. my kids are definitely going to have the opportunity to go to overnight camp in the woods. with cabins. and campfires.
yesterday I had lunch with my friend emily. she is 17 wks pregnant. i think that i think that i am smaller than I am. she is showing pretty well. it is cute. her friend just had twins and had the very experience that i was afraid of having had I chosen to deliver at Northwestern.
Her friend was carrying twins and her doctor decided to induce once she made it to 38 weeks. Her appt was at 2 am. (so as to deliver in the afternoon or so). She got there, and they were so busy she had to wait in the waiting room for two hours! She said there were other people there who had waited 12 hours. The L&D was very busy as they usually have 30 births, and they had had 50! Her friend didn't even get a regular L&D room, but one of the operating room. Crazy.
Though i tell people that I am not delivering at northwestern because it is snooty, the real reason is that it is sooooo popular that things like this happen. And so I am quite happy with our decision.
We started baby class last week. It isn't as bad as I feared. The 4 other couples seem normal. The instructor is not that great (but not horrible), and therefore it is boring. We did get a tour of L&D and the Mom & Baby unit. The most interesting thing is that they don't have a nursery. The babies stay with the moms the whole time. I was planning on insisting on that anyways, so i am glad to know that it is SOP.
(side note - several people have told me that i should let the baby go to the nursery the first night so i can sleep. if this is what you want to do great, but i am not. i have ben. and others. so i think i'll be able to sleep if i can. in the end, i think that i'll sleep better if he is in the room with me. but to each their own. do what works for you and your baby.)
of course, there is a NICU, in case something goes wrong.
Anyways, it was good to see. It was also good to see that all of the rooms are private, so ben will be able to stay (there are a couple of semi-private just in case).
I see a lot of pregnant women nowadays. i think i just notice it more. and in the winter coats cover bellies. but i know a lot of people whose birthdays are in august. so a lot of late summer babies. i only wonder this as i wonder how busy the hospital is going to be. but there are only 5 couples in our class (all due in late august through the middle of sept.).
As i've noted here, this pregnancy has gone really great, but the hormones i must comment on. yesterday i almost cried at the sex and the city rerun where carrie and mr. big break-up for good (well, except for the affair in later seasons and the end of the series). sigh.
Posted by christina at July 19, 2007 2:22 PM