Just wanted to post an update that I’m still here, still huge, and still pregnant. Miss Signe doesn’t appear to be in any big hurry, despite the fact that we can both feel how uncomfortably cramped her quarters are getting.<\/p>\n
At my doctor’s appointment two weeks ago, I was already dilating and effacing (if you don’t know what that means, you’ll have to look elsewhere for an explanation because I don’t want to get too graphic, not yet at least). I’m hoping at our appointment today, the doctor will tell us I’ve progressed even further and that all systems appear to be a “go.”<\/p>\n
I’ve been trying everything I can to encourage this baby to vacate the premises, short of drinking castor oil or putting evening primrose oil suppositories in my hoo-hoo. Those seem too extreme. But I’ve been taking walks, drinking pineapple juice and red raspberry leaf tea, etc. This Wednesday, I have an accupuncture appointment. We’ll see if that does anything to get her moving. <\/p>\n
There are two family birthdays this week. GTB’s mom is this Thursday and my brother’s is Saturday. So if she wanted to be born one of those two days, that would be pretty cool. A Thursday birthday would also mean I was having her while Obama was accepting the nomination for president on the anniversary of MLK’s “I have a dream” speech. That would be awesome.<\/p>\n
Though, despite my motherly intuition being off about whether she was a boy or a girl, I’ve had dreams and other strong hunches that she’ll come on September 1. Labor Day. Get it? Ha!<\/p>\n
I’ll post more news as we get it, if <\/em>we get it. And I apologize to those of you who yearn for funny posts that aren’t about my gestating state. This is all that’s on my mind right now, so it’s what you’re getting. Sorry.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Doctor says I’m now 2 cm dilated and 80% effaced. Not really “news” per se. But in case you were wondering….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just wanted to post an update that I’m still here, still huge, and still pregnant. Miss Signe doesn’t appear to be in any big hurry, despite the fact that we can both feel how uncomfortably cramped her quarters are getting. At my doctor’s appointment two weeks ago, I was already dilating and effacing (if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}