April 25 – The end is near but not near enough.

This isn’t going to be a particularly eloquent post, as I’m reaching that point of sheer exhaustion combined with severe back pain. I have an hour to kill before Kyle comes home from work though, so I figured I might as well give a little update.

This past Saturday involved a 2 hour visit to Labor & Delivery. I’m fine, babies are awesome…just some little scary things that were apparently worth checking out. I envisioned the L&D floor as being some sort of happy sunny place, no idea why. It wasn’t really like that. Pretty dim and extremely quiet. I guess that’s how it should be, so ladies can relax and babies can sleep? I have no idea what I’m talking about. Anyhow, I spent my 2 hours of hospital time in a small triage room hooked up to the baby heartbeat/contraction monitor. It’s amazing how many contractions I have constantly. I hadn’t seen them actually measured until Saturday. For me, they are “normal” in the sense that I’ve been having them and treating them since 24 weeks. However, the nurse seemed sort of confused that I was so un-phased.

Easter Sunday was uneventful, slow and rainy. I’m pretty great at playing “pretend” when required (i.e. – during uncomfortable family dinners), but yesterday was an exception. I could hardly keep my eyes open! Amazing to feel so tired, yet still be completely unable to sleep. Weeks and months of no sleep. I’m sort of sick of hearing the same old line from “sympathizers”. It’s always the same, “oh, this is NOTHING! You don’t KNOW tired yet! Enjoy this time!”

That response would make total sense to me if I weren’t a chronic insomniac. I mean really…we’re talking a maximum of 2 hours in a night. I’m actually looking forward to babies “waking” me, because a) maybe they will tire me to the TRUE point of exhaustion and b) at least I’ll have something to do at 2:30 a.m. when I’m laying there!

We have our 6th ultrasound this Wednesday, so I am looking forward to that. It’s nice to have little events to look forward to right now. Kyle and I both need them more than ever. What a perfect husband he is. This guy is outrageous. I want everyone to know how wonderful he is, and then I want to put him in a box and keep him in my pocket.

Posted by Katelyn in Uncategorized. 2 comments

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{1} bluejeanamy:

oh, bleck, don’t listen to the haters. yes, babies are exhausting in a oh-my-god-i-didn’t-know-that-existed kind of way, BUT when you DO get to sleep it’s much more refreshing (in my experience…) i only got a few hours here and there but they were SOLID hours and i could sleep on my stomach! also, don’t forget, most of those people weren’t pregnant with twins, so they have no idea what they’re talking about. :p


Apr 26, 2011
1:54 pm

{2} sam:

i’m so glad kyle is there to help you out and he is being so precious to you! wish there was something i could do or say. i’m so proud of you and you are so strong, so hang in there! can’t wait to see their pretty faces. <3


Apr 26, 2011
7:55 pm

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