We have weekly visits with the OB now so we were back there on Monday, May 4. He was looking at the report from the ultrasound specialist and commented about how the head size for Baby A was off the chart. His report listed Baby A as weighing in at a gargantuan 21 pounds, 3 ounces! I honestly didn’t know how to respond at first, but if true, I was seriously going to reconsider natural childbirth. Fortunately, we quickly determined that there was a bit of a typo — it should have been 2 pounds, 13 ounces (this weight was from an ultrasound about a month earlier). Obviously, I was rather relieved when we got that resolved. After all, who wants to try to deliver a 21 pound baby with an unnaturally large head?!
Then he asked how work was going. He’s asked that at each of the past few visits and I’ve always told him it was going fine. But lately I’ve been feeling more and more fatigued, particularly by the end of the week, so I told him I was ready to discuss a reduced work schedule. He has kindly restricted me to six hours per day with a limit of 20 hours per week. He said I could do that this week and probably next week and then there was a good chance I’d be done. By the end of the week I could see the wisdom in working part time. I realize now that I didn’t see just how fatigued I was by the end of the week. I’ve felt so much less zombie like this week. So now I’m in “wrap up mode” – trying to finish up the things at work that I’m going to finish before my leave starts.
I’ve also noticed in the past couple of weeks that I’m not sleeping quite as well as I had been. It’s more difficult to get into a comfortable position. Plus recently I’ve been having to get up every 2-3 hours for bathroom visits. Then I have to go through the whole process of finding a comfortable position again.
Note: Janet had every intention of adding a bit more to this post so that it would include something about her first Mother’s Day. She didn’t quite get around to that, and now events have rushed us forward. It’s time to simply post this and move on.
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