36 weeks and counting

[walkitout]

M. visited for the long weekend and we all had a lovely time, if somewhat exhausting. R. and M. went bicycling twice. We all went paddling on Lake Union once. We spent part of the 4th on Whidbey Island at the beach house of a co-worker of R.'s. I think I used that man's graph coloring algorithm to implement a register allocator at DEC back in the day. He is such a geek he wrote a program to figure out where he wanted tiles placed in his downstairs shower so there would be no pattern and no matching neighbors. His wife showed me the output printout. Nice people. Nice place. Relaxing day. I think some of the women there were a little frightened that I was visiting when so far along. Someone said something about not breathing on me, I might go into labor.

We visited Bottleworks for beer and chocolate. We went to Salty's and Wild Ginger (still itching from the lemongrass in the Seven Flavor Beef, but it is so worth it) and a variety of other good restaurants. They walked me around Green Lake (it took two hours and we stopped at almost every bench, which I'm here to tell you is a lot of benches). It was a lot of fun, but R. is now way behind on sleep, because he couldn't decamp to the couch when I was restless as it was already occupied.

No particularly interesting developments. I'm still insanely slow, have sciatica when I stand or walk faster than a crawl or further than a block or three, and the contractions continue. My feet are a lot more swollen, which is annoying. I'm going to see if eating more veg and eating out less helps.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hope all's well and that you enjoyed the shower (which I couldn't be at 'cos of family reunion). I found immersion in deep water (more than a bath) by far the best thing for redistributing bodily fluids -- when I was pregnant with the twins, I used to go and stand in the lake for a while and revel in the apparent weight loss. After I came out, I could see the bones in my feet again for quite some time. Oh, and my irritable uterus (I love that phrase) would calm down quite a bit, too.

You do know the average gestation for first-time white moms is more like 41 weeks? though those contractions you're having do sound more serious than the ones I was having at your stage, so who knows.

Helen Schinske

1 week late rule

[walkitout]

Yup -- I definitely am aware. And it's so nice to see someone else state it precisely and accurately! Sorry to miss you at the shower. I hope you had a good time at your reunion. I'm only having a little trouble with swelling, and yesterday I had a fruit juice concoction with cranberry juice that completely fixed my feet. So today I stocked up. Kinda nice.

Unfortunately, so far every time I go to the pool I actually try to swim, which is a horrible mistake apparently. Next time I'll just stand there and it'll be much better. Probably Sunday.