The Waiting Game

In pregnancy there is a lot of waiting, especially in the third trimester and especially in your forties. Everything seems to move slower, mostly time. Now, I would never wish for time to go faster. Gosh no. At this age you want to start savoring every day (you should do that at any age!). And I want to relish every moment I'm blissfully pregnant when the chances of me being in this condition at age 46, I'm told, are so slim to begin with. Plus, let's face it. This is my last time being pregnant. (If you do find me blogging in two years on the same subject, I would hope to be on the talk show circuit.) So, how should I wile away the next 9 and a half weeks waiting for baby to come out? And I mean in the "getting ready" for it sense. I don't want you to think I do nothing all day.

Take today, for example. I did remove my fall clothes out of the trunk, which doubles as a table, and insert my summer stock in there. I got the neutral-gender infant clothes from my daughter's newborn days into some bags for laundering,  The layette is quite complete. But I did tell my mom, who has been bugging me to let her know what I need, to get some long-sleeved onesies as this one will be born in winter time, whereas my daughter was born in the heat of the summer.  I sorted by three, six, and nine months bags the rest of my daughter's first-year clothes, which are all pink, purple, flowery, little girlie, fringie. In case I have another girl, the clothes will be ready. I wouldn't need a thing if it's a girl. I do have some clothes for the first year that can be worn by a boy, as my sister lent me some hand-me-downs from her son when my daughter was in her first year. I had no qualms about putting a pair of pants on her with a fire truck on it. But I do have qualms about putting anything purple or with a flower on my maybe son. Is that a double standard? Little girls can be tomboys, but little boys mustn't be feminine?

The next task I performed was to move my dresser to make way for a crib.  Am I getting ahead of myself? I just need some things to do to get ready, but maybe it's too early. I need to wait three and a half more weeks when I hit 34 weeks, just to be on the safe side.  Until then, I guess I should just wait.  I'll simply think of my big belly as being an accessory to my body.  The waiting game will have to be played longer.