Naomi, you're 40 weeks grown and sticking around for more. You won't be considered "post due" until you're 42 weeks grown. 50% of all pregnancies go past the "due date", and 70% of those are because of miscalculation of conception. Your skin may start to peel this week, with the lack of vernix on your skin. Your nails probably need cutting as well! Your lungs and brain continue to develop in the womb, making you extra-ready for life outside. Your endocrine system is gearing up to send a chemical signal (hormones) to the placenta. That will tell my body to begin labor. During that time, you'll produce more stress hormones than you ever will again in your life. They'll help you adjust rapidly to the outside world--kind of a "survival instinct" to help your body take over the many jobs my body has done for you while you've grown. We love you very much.
I feel cranky and uncomfortable--like anyone at this stage is/was/will be. I'm swollen all the time, sore all the time, and tired all the time. My blood pressure is so low that I often feel I'm going to pass out. I worry about another experience with meconium, now that we're passing 40 weeks. Nothing that people swear signals oncoming labor has signaled oncoming labor. And nothing that people swear brings on labor has brought on labor. I'm trying to remain full of grace and kindness. It is difficult.
I worked this week, took Kathryn to the park a couple times, went and got a pedicure, etc. Today is Saturday and Jared and I took Kathryn to our town's "Spring Eggstravaganza". There were crafts for kids, inflatables, live rabbits, trucks and construction equipment for touching, and lots of sponsor tents with candy and information. The "egg hunts" were cordoned off and broken up by age: 0-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Kathryn understood this year that she needed to drop each egg in her basket and go after the next one. Last year it was pick up an egg, open it, unwrap it, eat it, look for another egg....oh, they're all gone now. :)
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