On Sun, 6 May 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> Julia Thompson schreef:
>
> > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> >
> > > There ... in your face. ;o) Gna gna gna. I'll probably be punished for
> > > all the comfort I had until now sometime at birth. But that is still
> > > far far away.
> >
> > Sonja, I would not wish any of my complaints (most notably the morning
> > sickness last fall) on you. I just want you to know that you ARE lucky,
> > and to appreciate that! :)
> >
> > Good luck on the birth, BTW. I hope it goes well for you. (I also hope
> > it goes well for me....)
>
> Of course I know that you didn't really mean that. And I absolutely
> realise I got of very very lucky. But it is sweet of you to say it
> anyway. :o) Although....
>
> I found that when I talk to others about how their pregnancy went or
> goes I simply can't relate to them. I never had any of the typical
> problems. It only was a bit tense at the start but that was more from
> an emotional point of view. Physically I just couldn't have been any
> better. Looks like my body was simply made for pregnancy. Should have
> known that earlier.
I should have put you in touch with the friend of mine who didn't have any
problems until near the end. (The baby didn't turn head down when she
should have, and it turned out that at that point she didn't have enough
room to turn like that, and ended up having a caesarean section. Up until
then, she did incredibly well. My pregnancy has more closely paralleled
the one of another friend whose baby was born within 2 weeks of that one,
what with morning sickness and other stuff.)
> I really have to admit it actually was all pretty much a pleasure ride
> up untill now, considering all the ailments pregnancy could have
> brought. I just really hope it continues like this for a while longer
> before the really hard part starts. One problem though might be that
> because I'm still rather comfy carrying junior I'm not yet looking
> forward as longingly to birth as Julia, even though I'm almost just as
> far along as she is.
Hey, if you can enjoy the last few weeks of pregnancy, do so! Your body
will do what it's supposed to eventually.
> Junior is due somewhere between 2nd and 15th of June +/- two weeks
> depending on who I trust in calculating birthdates. We just wait and
> see what happens and when the little one decides *he* isn't comfy
> anymore and wants to leave his hospis. <very wide grin>
Seeing as your junior has roomier accomodations, he may be a little more
reluctant to leave than mine. We'll see. I'm just glad that this weekend
we managed to get most of the preparation finished; we still have a bunch
of things whose labelling say that washing before use is recommended, but
that's what we have a washing machine for. It's just a matter of getting
it all in, one load at a time, now. Finishing preparing *me* may take
just a little longer, as there are a few more things I want to do for my
own sake before then. (And we didn't manage to do some of them yesterday,
like I wanted to, due to the weather, wah! Dan promises he'll try to
squeeze it in if his schedule allows it before *next* weekend.)
Julia
who *really* doesn't want to run into the situation her mother was in on
the second pregnancy -- 3 weeks late in Texas in June would just be too
much!
