I've Hit The Wall

The pregnancy wall. The one where you have no desire and even refuse to do anything until the baby is born. Usually it sets in the last couple weeks but I still have 4-5 weeks to go. That's a lot of weeks of not doing anything.

I don't feel like reading or organizing or cleaning (when do I ever?) or cooking or knitting or quilting or talking to someone on the phone. I don't even feel like being on the computer. Just typing this is getting in the way of my busy schedule of not doing anything.

The same thing actually happened to me last weekend. Maybe I just have a weekend problem. That doesn't sound very good but it's true that it hurts to sit down at this point of the pregnancy and I've been known to keep a pillow handy. I never really had a sitting problem with my other pregnancies so most of you probably don't know what I'm talking about even if you've been pregnant yourselves.

So what do I do all day? Lay on the couch and play with my three year old Lovely and make my older kids do stuff for me until they run away and then it's just me and the Lovely. We snuggle and tell each other how much we love each other and how soft and warm we are while we rub each other's backs. Then we talk about the baby that needs to come out of my tummy so it won't be so difficult for me to get up to come see how she made her bed all by herself. We talk about how when the baby is born Lovely is going to teach her (she's dreaming about a girl) how to walk and how she'll hold her hand so she doesn't get run over by cars. We are very worried about our baby getting run over. We are learning that you don't scream or run around when the new baby is sleeping (I'm going to try really hard not to) and you don't kiss or touch the baby until it wakes up. Then you can hold it and play with it and read stories to it.

There is nothing like a three year old to get excited with you about a new baby and hang out on the couch with you for 4 weeks until it's born.