Thursday, September 23, 2004
Tuning up…
My body feels right now like a large orchestra getting ready to play a symphony. You know that once they’re actually playing, it will be a thing of beauty, but the tuning-up beforehand is almost painful to listen to.
For the last four hours or so, I’ve been enjoying what I can only assume is a bout of false labor. Contractions are irregular and manageable, but there’s no doubt that they’re much closer relatives of the real thing than those Braxton-Hicks jobbies that have been cropping up here and there for months now. We’re talking anywhere from 10-20 minutes apart and just strong enough to force me to pay attention. I know better than to get excited, but I can’t quite sleep between the periodic discomfort, the baby kicking me between the things, and Jay’s extra-loud snoring, courtesy of a sore foot keeping him out of a position where he breathes well. Poor thing…
In any case, I’ll most likely jump in the shower in an effort to relax a bit more. If this, by some miracle, turns out to be a direct prelude to the real thing, I’ll be wanting to have slept at least a little. Right now I feel like I could go all night, but I know that’s an illusion.
Updates will be forthcoming should anything truly exciting happen...and probably if it doesn’t. 