Okay so it’s 29 days until I’m scheduled for my C-section, but this morning I had the most horrible pain, and I swear to you I thought “Oh, great I’m in labor”. I should also add that I am in awe of those women out there that have their babies the natural way. My best friend had her second without the aid of drugs and I seriously can’t even wrap my mind around the idea of that kind of pain. I seriously don’t think I could do it.
I mean when I was preggars with my first I had pains (that felt remarkably like the one I had this morning) one night so we went to the hospital. They hooked me up to machines and said I was having, get this…the mildest of contractions. I’m talking like 0 or 1 on the pain scale. They weren’t even full blown anything, but I thought I was dying. They sent me home and lucky me I had an appointment with my doc the next day who informed me he was going hunting the next day. Well as you can imagine I freaked out at the idea that I would have to deliver the baby without him when he had essentially held my hand for the past 9 months, so great guy that he is he offered me a C-section which I gladly accepted. I am all about the scheduled births. I don’t care if the recovery is supposed to be harder.
Well here I am the second time around and Friday at my last appointment he informed me that he was leaving for a week of bear hunting in about ten days and then for a medical trip to Vegas the weekend before my section. Even though I’m due to see him before he leaves on the first trip I am living in a state of severe paranoia that I am going to go into labor while he’s out of town. Even though I know and trust his replacement doctor (who was great to me after my last baby when my doc was still out of town) I have this insane fear that somehow someone is going to neglect to get the memo that I’m due for a repeat c-section and that somehow they are going to try and make me have this baby the natural way. OH MY GOURD, THAT WOULD BE SOOO NOT GOOD. So let’s everyone cross there fingers that this baby holds out for it’s scheduled delivery date.