Jul 27, 2009
Countdown to Tears
My mom just poked her head in before going to bed, and rather than the usual “good-night, love you,” she asked when she should start crying because I haven’t gone into labor yet. This is what it’s come to, people. Until now I’ve been able to distract my parents with day trips to Santa Monica and a pantry full of sugary snacks, but the gig is up. The pressure is on. I have eight days left to produce The Granddaughter before they must return to Pennsylvania. If Baby Girl stubbornly remains in Club Uterus, I will have let my parents down in a way I haven’t let ANYONE down since informing Grandma Kirby I got a job as a staff writer for CBS’s The Bold and the Beautiful. To which Grandma replied: “You REALLY should have gone to law school.”
Cowgirl in the Sand
says:
I hear you — I am in the EXACT same position (just a week behind you). I have my mom insisting that I have the baby before she heads back east and my MIL crossing her fingers that I won’t so that she can arrive on our doorstep the moment the baby is born and be the first to see him/her. And of course, each of them thinks that I have some kind of control over this and am therefore doing it on purpose.
I’m thinking happy labor thoughts for both of us!
July 27th, 2009 at 7:24 am -Candy
says:
Congrats on making it to full-term+! Lucky you — pressure from *both* sides of the family!
Happy labor thoughts, indeed.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:00 pm -Gigohead
says:
Candy,
Ha! I have to burst your bubble girl My first baby was get this…18 days overdue! yes..18 days. I was slated for June 24 and it came and went…in came July. tick tick tick no baby..tick 18 days I was finally induced! out comes Nicholas! Girl, it was grueling! I don’t wish that on anyone but it happened to me. Take good care of yourself keep active (i mean sex) and it should help it along. LOL!
July 27th, 2009 at 7:08 pm -Alex
says:
What is it with these damn kids being a no show?!!!! Mine is still in there too. I have my husband ringing me at home and surprising me in the shower asking if it’s coming yet. NO IT IS NOT. All I’ve produced in the last day is a head cold.
And now I just had a stomach cramp typing this, which I bet is just a stomach ache from eating half a block of chocolate.
GOOD LUCK!
July 27th, 2009 at 7:27 pm -