Making full use of my phone’s capabilities.

Well, there you have it.  Not only did I fail to do a 10-day countdown, I couldn’t even manage to post a full 5 days.  I have no excuse, but I could probably make up a good one if pressed. Oh well, it’s more exciting to cut to the chase anyway– a 1-day countdown!! Spoiler: No baby yet.  Not only is there no baby, but no SIGNS of baby, real or imagined.  As in, even if I try really hard to focus on any slight change in my body, I have to honestly concede that I feel perfectly fine.

Noah just thinks that this is what I look like normally.

Which is great.  Until you consider that you can (and will!) go from feeling like a perfectly healthy (albeit large) individual sitting on the couch enjoying a Seinfeld marathon to living a real life medical emergency in a matter of seconds.  Even doing this for the second time, the complete 180 blows my mind.  And horrifies me.  I am jealous of first-time moms.  Fear of the unknown is not worse than fear of the very well-known (especially for someone doing this 2x in 1 year) pain that awaits. Granted, I had a terrible experience my first time around pain-wise (again, see Here, but don’t compare my countdowns).

Even knowing the pain that awaits, I am still anxious to get this show on the road, so I’ve half-heartedly employed some clichéd labor-inducing techniques: I’ve taken long walks, eaten spicy foods, Googled “how to perform accupressure on yourself to induce labor,” etc. etc. etc.  I mean, given the proximity to my due date (again, thank goodness I put that in my calendar, lest I double-booked with a pedicure or coffee date), anything that I do immediately preceding the onset of excruciating no-shit labor pains will be unfairly be credited with the induction. I mean, we were ALL doing SOMETHING when labor began. So, with that in mind, I figure online Nordies shopping is as good a labor-inducing activity as any.

If anyone has a better (perhaps, less expensive) suggestion, please let me know.