and now they're in the closing stretch
*****the third trimester*****
yes, i know that many of you consider 28 weeks, not 27, the beginning of the third trimester. but with all due respect, maybe you need to take remedial math. if you're a 40 week-ist, then divide 40 by 3; you'll get 13.3333333333 (and so on), which technically put me in the third trimester 2.3333333 days ago. if you go by the nine month plan, then the third trimester began yesterday, three months from the due date. either way, i'm already in the third, so i was actually being conservative not counting it as the third until today, so stuff your "what to expects" and any other books that say 28 weeks where the sun don't shine.
on the one hand, i'm terrified of the 3rd trimester lasting one day longer than milo can survive inside. on the other hand, i feel a huge sense of relief that the end of this pregnancy is in sight!
i'm doing my glucose tolerance test tomorrow morning, and i'm actually looking forward to it, if you can imagine such a thing, if nothing else because it means going to work later and spending less time with my psycho co-worker, who comes in very early and leaves very early. in a few weeks, i'll have weekly checkups plus twice weekly non-stress tests, which means i may get to the point that i only see her an hour a day until the birth. maybe i should reconsider my decision to not get pregnant again after this...
milo is kicking the laptop hello to all of you.
on the one hand, i'm terrified of the 3rd trimester lasting one day longer than milo can survive inside. on the other hand, i feel a huge sense of relief that the end of this pregnancy is in sight!
i'm doing my glucose tolerance test tomorrow morning, and i'm actually looking forward to it, if you can imagine such a thing, if nothing else because it means going to work later and spending less time with my psycho co-worker, who comes in very early and leaves very early. in a few weeks, i'll have weekly checkups plus twice weekly non-stress tests, which means i may get to the point that i only see her an hour a day until the birth. maybe i should reconsider my decision to not get pregnant again after this...
milo is kicking the laptop hello to all of you.
posted by laura at 8:16 AM
9 Comments:
hellooooo milo!
Congrats on the 3rd trimester!! :) I'm glad things are going well for you. And it sounds like the anxiety is... maybe a little better??
Dr. Simp said that technically the third tri is viability, and it starts at 24 weeks, so I would say you are SOLIDLY in the third tri, my friend.
Hooray! Milo, we can't freaking wait to meet you! But we will, of course.
Congrats on the third trimester! Can it be called a semi-home stretch?? I mean, it's not the last few weeks but hell, it's so darn close!
And hello, Milo! Can't wait for you to arrive!
you sexy vixen. look at that photo of you. milo's friends are going to be constantly talking about his milf of a mom.
poor milo. :)
ok, rach, you are so creeping me out! and anyway, i'm so old already that whatever little i may still have going on will be completely gone by the time milo gets old enough for his friends to notice girls. they'll ask if his grandma is going to yell at them again, and they'll mean me.
27 sounds like the right 3rd trimester start to me. Hi Milo!!
thump, thump back at ya, milo!! so glad you're in the home stretch, even if it is the scariest part...you two take care of each other while the daddy is away, ok? :)
Congrats for making it this far--isn't it a great feeling?! Although I've been here before, I guess I can now speak from experience and say that every pregnancy is different.
Thanks for your recent comments, by the way. I wondered if you'd care to expand. When someone asks if this is your first, do you a) say no and hope that they'll leave it alone, then bravely face what comes next, or do you b) say no, and give them the whole story (brief version) up front? I agree that honesty is the best approach, at least for me, at least in most situations, but I always feel a little caught off guard and uncertain as to how honest I feel comfortable with being straight away, and what's going to make me feel better or worse in the long run...
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