Zonked

That's the best way to describe how I feel. Thanks to my hormone overdrive, and my inability to get any rest even when I do manage to fall asleep, I feel like I'm in full meltdown mode. I'm trying to take it easy. My bloodpressure was up yesterday, but I think that was just because I was nervous about telling the doctor that I needed her to stop threatening a c-section like some sort of punishment everytime I gain more than a pound or two per week. Once I got to the hospital for follow-up labwork, my blood pressure was FINE. I really think I just needed to get out of her office! Meanwhile, 5 hours of bloodwork and monitoring later, the hospital staff agreed with me and got permission to let me go. This meant that I missed the afterschool kids' circus performance, which sucked both because I felt like I was letting the kids down AND because it meant Lance had to set-up, run, and take down a whole 20 kid circus by himself. He was a little zonked by the time he came home as well...

The cool thing about being monitored at the hospital was that I got to listen to parker's heartbeat for five hours (sounds good! kind of like a galloping horse) and watch my uterus contract every 5 minutes. These were just baby contractions, getting my body ready for the real ones, but it was nice to know that they were really regular for 5 hours, instead of sporadic like I had thought. It was also a nice dry-run for the real thing, because it was the same waiting room and triage evaluation room that I'll go to once Parker kicks into high gear. She's moving like a maniac today, and yesterday she did that whenever I had a contraction. Apparently she doesn't enjoy being squeezed.

I'm trying to take it easy to make sure that the bloodpressure thing was just because the doctor made me nervous. We went to the grocery store this morning since we had to do something with the car for alternate street parking, but missed and ended up at costco. this was good because we've had 2 tires give up on us in the last couple of months and needed to replace the other 2 before they blew as well. So, costco changed the tires while we stocked up on stuff to keep up afloat after the baby comes. But I don't know if it's possible to go to costco without getting numb even when you're NOT pregnant. The walking felt good. Everyone keeps saying that walking is the best thing to do because it loosens up the pelvis and lets gravity do its thing. But still... TOTAL sensory overload. I almost starting crying on the way home because a traffic light was taking too long to change and I wanted to go.

I think what this all really means is that it's time to eat something and take a nap. Assuming Parker will let me do either of those without having a meltdown of her own...