Last Day of Work (Until September)

Today was my last day of work before maternity leave. I was glad I could finish out my time and not leave loose ends or anything. I'm way too much of a control freak at work to have felt ok with leaving abruptly for three months. Everyone was sad to see me leave, they all said they'd miss my giggle and my sense of humor. (I must have a really strange laugh because both residents & co-workers commented!) A few of my co-workers even started crying when they said goodbye, which of course made ME tear up. Believe me, I'm excited to not have to deal with the b.s. of work for a few months, but I will miss the camaraderie of my co-workers and the residents.

So, now it begins. My maternity leave. Crazy! Now that work is done, I'm ready for baby. I don't feel like being in limbo for the next however many days. I just want to have the child arrive and start figuring out life as a family of four. Nick tells me to just enjoy the next few days and take it easy (and actually, he's given me some projects to get done like clean my mail pile now that I'll be home), but I'm a planner. I want to know when Baby S 2.0 is arriving so I can make arrangements! I want to just get through the tough part of labor & delivery and be done with it. I want to start working out a routine that will change as soon as we figure it out since that is what babies do. But, since I have no control over mother nature, I will just try and relax. I do have a doctor's appointment tomorrow where I'm sure we'll go into details about the dreaded "i" word and I also have a non-stress test. Nick is going with me for moral support and back up and hopefully we can come up with a plan that is satisfactory to everyone.

As for me physically, well, the heat is harder for me to take than it usually is now that I'm carrying around a little extra weight and my hormones are already in flux. Yesterday, my ankles started swelling so now I have cankles going. This morning, I woke up feeling just very short of breath and light headed. Nick gave me acupuncture last night but it got the baby so riled up that I was uncomfortable the whole time and wanted the needles out asap. I couldn't sit there and relax because I was getting kicked, a butt was going up into my ribcage, it felt like the whole baby was just rolling around inside of me. I haven't felt movement that aggressive in ages. We're going to test things again tonight because I have felt very minor movement today so we'll see if the acupuncture gets him?(her?) going again.

Lastly, I made it! I WILL be able to go on vacation with the family in September. All that worrying and it is ok. Whew!

Ok, Nick just did acupuncture. Let me reiterate how little the baby moved today. About 1 minute after putting in the needles, the kid was moving all around again. It's really rather freaky!