xp Just kidding there's no wallpaper in here.
I'm fine. Antsy and I had a breakdown about dinner last night that lasted like 45 minutes but that's probably to be expected.
Fetus continues to be a total badass. If everything continues as it has been, they'll start taking it day by day as of Tuesday and see if we can't give the kid a few more days on the inside to make a few extra ounces of baby.
Jeff continues to be a total badass as well. My parents are here and I've had lots of lovely visitors. So all in all: reasonably okay.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 9 November 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
The coffee room remains a mystery. There are two water/ice machines and I am permitted access to the closer one, which is in a storage closet. It's too bad, too, because I like the ice from the coffee room ice machine better.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 9 November 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
I'm glad your roomie is home, io!
― carl agatha, Saturday, 9 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Expected?? I'm amazed it took that long! Rest, have breakdowns, do whatever you do while kiddo gains a gram here, a gram there. Pics suggest Jeff is getting bored enough to start cataloging "The Nights and Days of Francie" so I'm sure he'll be fine.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 9 November 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the good wishes for R, you know I'm secretly delighted when someone is completely under my control so I quite enjoyed making him dinner on a tray the first night AND I got to see the holes in his side from where they punched through his ribcage wall to put a tube in his chest. He's on morphine now so all is well.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 9 November 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
early morning lol @ yellow wallpaper
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 9 November 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Carl, you had me worried with the wallpaper. Glad the waiting is tolerable, that babby's probably growing like mad due to peanut butter variations.
― Jaq, Saturday, 9 November 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
yellow wallpaper ref <3 <3 <3
I'm glad it's all going reasonably ok! hope the storage closet ice undergoes a mysterious improvement to coffee room ice standards.
― c sharp major, Saturday, 9 November 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
I was wondering how everything was going and wishing you the very best xo
― *tera, Saturday, 9 November 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Pics suggest Jeff is getting bored enough to start cataloging "The Nights and Days of Francie" so I'm sure he'll be fine.
Ha, I have to spend some couch time with Francie every night when I get back from the hospital, otherwise she goes crazy from lack of human attention. Unfortunately Francie time is invading sleep time.
― Jeff, Saturday, 9 November 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
I too enjoyed your yellow wallpaper joke.. Dork :) glad the rest is doing baby good at any rate
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 10 November 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Morning, carl!
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
the nurses in our recovery area started referring to me as the guy who walks the halls because i refused to press the stupid call button to get ice water or new diapers or whatever, so i feel you on the ice machine access. apparently none of the other new fathers ever do this?! which seems so weird to me but hey, lazy or freaked out or w/e i suppose. obv this same freedom of motion was not granted to k, who was on the bed rest tip
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
I know! I feel like a tool calling for water, too. Right now I'm on the fetal heart monitor for six hours at a time (six on, six off so I can have six blessed, precious hours of sleep at night) so I end up having to call for bullshit like that sometimes. But I figured out how to unplug and plug in the monitor cables and can often successfully readjust the sensors so I can at least go to the damn bathroom without having to involve anybody else.
Got good news today, though - me and the baby are stable enough that they are going to reschedule the c-section for next Tuesday and then take it day by day until then. Any bleeding, significant contractions, blood pressure issues, fetal distress, or if I just decide that I can't take any more and they'll deliver earlier. But I'm determined to get this kid to 35 weeks, dammit, even if it means lying still with those stupid, noisy, hot air compression boots on all day.
Can't wait until the kid is older and I can say shit like, "You got a C in biology??? I didn't spend at extra week on hospital bed rest to make sure your brain developed as much as possible so you could get a C in biology." Or "I fought doctors and gravity to keep you in my womb an extra week and you repay me by dating this asshole?"
Fun times.
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 11 November 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
Support this course of action.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 11 November 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
This poor child.
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
raised by a village of snarky ilxors
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 11 November 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
Will rebel by becoming a mod on Reddit.
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Not if he wants to live.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 11 November 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Or she, obviously. Defaulted to masc pronoun because that was an actual thing I heard a mom say to her son once: "You'll shovel that sidewalk if you want to live."
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 11 November 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
lol i felt a twinge of sorrow for the missing of 11/12/13 (hush, non-yanks)
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
Surely she's going to hold out until 11 Dec, so no worries there
― kinder, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
They won't let me go past 35 weeks no matter what. I had to do some convincing to get that extra week in, even.
But I believe 11/16 is FFM's birthday, and 11/19/13 would be all prime numbers, so those are both cool. Also my birthday is 11/22 so really anything in mid-November is excellent, IMO.
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
those air compression boot are loud! mr veg had to wear them, hated the noise
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
My birthday is 11/14, but there's nothing wrong with the second half of November: we're the Valentine babies! It is a pity that the epic birthday is being missed, but I'm glad that means you & the baby are healthy and strong. Mwah!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
Oh sorry! I knew it was around here somewhere. Well, 11/14 could happen, too!
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
Baby is welcome to it! :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 04:55 (ten years ago) link
My birthday is Aug 6; do you think you could just hang in a little more til then?
― Homo schaduwkabinet (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Haha yes because I am an elephant.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
Hope all is still going well for you, Carl.
I'm having occasional but annoying almost-faints: in the last month it's happened twice in the bathroom and just now on the station platform, which made me miss my train because boarding would have been a very bad idea. When I told the midwife she basically said, "meh that happens to loads of people, your blood pressure is perfect" so I'm more annoyed than worried.
― Madchen, Friday, 15 November 2013 08:44 (ten years ago) link
Baby Center and the like always list fainting as one if the fun things you can enjoy as a pregnant person. It sucks that it's happening to you!
How far along are you now?
― carl agatha, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
29 weeks on Sunday. I have been given iron tablets for the fainting, and the afternoon off work hurrah. Midwife basically told me to consider him a parasite and do all I can to replenish what he's sucking out of me. Babby was head down, arse out for her and his heartbeat was strong so draining my life force is clearly to his advantage.
― Madchen, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Ha! I remember when I started craving milk like it was the only thing that mattered in the world. Then I read the weekly update and that coincided with the baby sucking all the calcium from me to make its own little bones and it all made sense.
― carl agatha, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Checking in xo
― *tera, Sunday, 17 November 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Oh, you know, nothing major. I'm having a baby tomorrow morning at 7 am.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 17 November 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I didn't get the evite.
― Jeff, Sunday, 17 November 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Does your room have a whiteboard? You should totally write up a Monday to-do list like:
1) Brush teeth2) Have babby3) Freak out over babby reality4) Etc.
And then cross items off as you complete them throughout the day.
― quincie, Sunday, 17 November 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!!
― *tera, Sunday, 17 November 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
yaaaay carl!! you are one of three women i know who is in the exact same position -- one already had her baby (girl) and you seem poised to be next, although i haven't heard about the third one.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 17 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
It's raining babies.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 17 November 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
lolololol This is exciting!
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 17 November 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r1a-7OVQHV4/TWb41Xv5P0I/AAAAAAAAEbM/1jkbplItMWo/s1600/cakeify-hurray.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
There is a white board. Under "special needs" the nurses wrote "Stay pregnant :)" because that is how we joke in the perinatal surveillance unit.
Anyway me and the baby made it to 34 weeks, 6 days, which will significantly reduce NICU time so I'm pleased and can get excited about getting THE FUCK OUT OF THE HOSPITAL and also having my wee baby.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
I haven't been outside in almost three weeks, guys.
http://boxercrazy.org/forum/Smileys/jason/straightj.gif
― carl agatha, Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
OMG Carl and Jeff!! This is so exciting!!!
― woah did you see that hummingbird over there? anyway, meth (sunny successor), Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nataliedee.com/091205/NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.jpg
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 17 November 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Outside there are trees, which are like very tall vegetables, and shiny metal animals with glowing eyes that you get inside of to go places.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 17 November 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link