The answer? No. Probably not.
Sunday is the start of my third trimester. We’re going to have a baby! This realization has slowly dawned on me. Really dawned on me. And nothing makes impending birth feel more real than gaining five pounds of baby in one month and not sleeping.
The not sleeping is an unfortunate development I had forgot about that lasts the whole third trimester. It’s pure physics (actually, I almost failed Physics the last time I took it, so maybe it’s something else) that a few ill-placed pounds make it pretty impossible to get comfortable. And when I wake up, I start to worry about having a baby. The emotions, the fatigue, the changes.
The fatigue.
A baby pushing on my lungs may make sleeping a little hard. A baby screaming with colic a few inches from my ear?
Yeah. We are so not ready for this.
But I’ve been here before. Getting ready is a process. Unfortunately for M. (but excellent for American Express) getting ready includes decorating the nursery and filling the closet with new outfits. Oh, and this chair from Pottery Barn Kids.
All part of the process.
And if getting ready is anything like it was for past pregnancies, I’ll get ready and get ready until I can’t wait for the baby to be born (colic or not) because I can’t think of anything else to do to get ready. And still can’t sleep.
Come July, the crib (that admittedly the baby won’t sleep in for months) will be set up and the other kids will have been jumping in it for at least a week. The impossibly tiny diapers that will actually sag on the newborn will be stocked (even opened, since, you know, life with a newborn is so fast-paced, I won’t have time to open the package) and ready. Our bags will be packed, the older kids will be coached continuously they may have a new baby brother ANY DAY NOW!
By then, we’ll be so ready to welcome the baby’s colicky crying, just to move past the process of getting ready for it.
