Wednesday, January 9, 2013

"During church yesterday morning I was having a lot of contractions."

Monday, April 15, 1991
     Sat. Guy did lots of housework.  Things look so much better now.  Too bad it doesn't last long.  I started working on the bumper pads & diaper stacker I'd planned to make.  When Guy wanted to get the crib set at the store I reminded him I was planning to make the bumper pads.  He said I'd still need to make them cause we'd be using the old crib downstairs.  I got about half done with the pads.
     After Guy finished cleaning he went up in the attic to put the rest of the stuff up there.  Then we finished putting things away and rearranging the front bedroom - FINISHED!  The closet is still full of boxes, mostly my scraps, but there's still room to hang up a few things.  It sure looks different in there now.
     At some point during the day I took a nap while Guy went for milk & a paper.  He cleaned downstairs when he got back & let me sleep til I woke up on my own.  It helped.  But I didn't get much sleep that night, maybe 3&1/2 hrs. total.  But I slept for 1&1/2 hrs. for our aft. nap, about twice as long as usual.
     During church yesterday morning I was having a lot of contractions.  We were keeping track of them and they started getting closer together.  For about 30 minutes they were 5 & 6 minutes apart.  Then they stopped.  Ever since then they've been like before - just very sporadic.
     I did have some stronger pains last night right after we went to bed and woke up a couple of times with them during the night.  But I went right back to sleep.  That's the first time I've "slept through" without having to get up to go to the bathroom or anything else.
     We tried to get some of the baby's movements on tape last night.  She's been putting on quite a show every night at bedtime but of course whenever we turned the camera on she slowed down & stopped.  I told Guy we need to keep the camera ready every night.
     J.E. & Jenny Thompson came by about lunch time.  She had told us a few weeks ago that she wanted to get us a diaper bag for the baby.  They'd been on a trip and when she saw us Sun. morning she said she'd bring it that night.  But she forgot and asked if they could come by the house today.  Guy wrote out our address & phone number for her.  J.E. called about noon saying they couldn't find me - they were at Witchduck and Kempsville.  I gave him directions from there & they got here about 20 mins. later.  I'd put the gate up to keep Chief in the kitchen but they didn't come in.  Jenny just brought the package to the door & talked for a little bit.  I waited til Guy got home before opening it, but I let him actually open it.  It's a huge thing, and made of plastic instead of fabric.  It's pink, almost lavender looking, and has blue, green, & yellow rattles and pieces of rainbows on it.  It's ice I guess but I probably would've like it better if I hadn't already seen the perfect one at Sears - pink with rabbits & hearts on it.  Maybe this one will wear out soon & we can buy that one ourselves.
     Today was Guy's last duty day before the baby comes.  He was supposed to work til 6:00 but called and said he had to wait for someone from the Radford to bring in some hot jobs.  I was very upset because I'd been feeling lousier & lousier all afternoon, just lack of energy and having a hard time breathing.  I did try to snack all afternoon and when I told Guy everything I'd eaten he said I'd done good.  I still didn't have much of an appetite for supper but ate as much as I could, promising Guy I'd eat some ice cream before bedtime.  He got home about 7:15.
     Deanna came by a little after 6:00, well, almost 6:30.  She'd mentioned yesterday that she was going to Piece Goods after work and I asked her if she could pick up some bias tape for me.  I'd bought single instead of the double-fold that I needed for the bumper pads.  Now that I think of it, that was bought for the basket liner I intended to make & I was going to get what I needed for this later.  Anyway, I wrote out what I needed & she got exactly what I needed.  She said she bought all they had of it - 5 pkgs.  I needed 15 yds.
     Guy put in a request for tomorrow aft. off to go with me to see Dr. Rand.  I want him to understand everything about this if we do have to go for induction of labor on Fri.  I asked him to read about it & he said he'd take the book to read in the morning.

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