Gotta love pregnancy...

So on Thursday I go to the doctor for a regular check up only to be told I have pregnancy induced hypertension. Although the doctor assured me this is not uncommon or very serious in my case, the flurry of emergency ultrasound, bloodwork and urinalysis was not very soothing. Thank God things seem fine with the baby so I was ordered to take it easy over the weekend (with a toddler? Ha!) and see the doctor Monday to check things out again. The end result may be getting induced on Tuesday instead of the following Tuesday, as planned. We shall see. I'm trying not to freak out about all this, but it's weird. I've never had a blood pressure problem in my life, including with my older son or through this entire pregnancy until apparently the last week and a half or so. At least the baby's room is finally ready and we've chosen a name (I think!), so he can show up whenever the time comes! I'm off to watch TV and knit on some legwarmers until Logan wakes up and begins his daily demands of feeding, playing and diaper changes.

Only a few more weeks!

People keep telling me to enjoy these last few weekes of pregnancy, that having a newborn and a toddler running around is going to be far harder than being nine months pregnant with a toddler. I may regret saying this later, but I disagree. I heard similar things when I was almost full term with my first son, and I thought life got much easier once he was born. For one thing, once they are out, you can hand them off to someone else sometimes! And you can have a drink and dye your hair and do any number of other things forbidden during pregnancy. Yes, there are trying times, but at least you can go through them in regular jeans instead of a pregnancy muu-muu!

On top of the normal misery of being almost 38 weeks pregnant, I seem to have caught the illness of either my big or little man. Logan had an ear infection and croup last week, and my husband Bill currently has bronchitis. For the last two days, I've had a sore throat, sinus pain and a general feeling of ickiness (a different kind of ickiness than the one i've had for the past four weeks or so!) Don't get me started on the unavailability of good over the counter medications safe for use during pregnancy.

I've reached the point where all I want to do is take naps, read, knit and watch TV, but there is still so much to get done before the baby arrives! And I wanted to reach 50 articles on Suite 101 before the arrival of the baby in mid April, (I'm at 40 right now) plus I need to put in some time at the up-front paying gig, Demand Studios, in order to afford all the baby stuff I still need to buy. Yikes!