Changing the topic

Ok, so I know this blog is about me being pregnant and the most major thing about my pregnancy these days is that I am waiting to deliver. But, since I have passed the McNugget's D-day, it seems the only topic of conversation right now is when she will come. Frankly, it's driving me a little crazy. So, I'm trying to think about other things to keep my mind off of the fact that we haven't met the McNugget yet.

I'm going to prenatal yoga again today. Even if it does nothing to help the McNugget exit, it's a great way to relax and relieve stress. I have certainly felt a ton of pressure in my pelvis in the last few days (it sometimes feels like I am carrying a bowling ball at the bottom of my stomach) so I imagine the McNugget has really really dropped. I wonder how this will effect my downward facing dogs and pigeon poses. We'll see.

I'm told that walking helps to get labor started but for the first time in my pregnancy, walking is really hard. I mentioned the increased pelvic pressure. With that comes a constant urge to urinate. This makes walking anywhere short of a mall very difficult. I also find that I get tired much faster than I used to while walking.

I'm also going to take a break from the supposed "natural" methods to induce labor because the results have been mostly disappointing thus far. But, they are kind of funny to list so here is what we have been doing behind the scenes so far:

• Eating the famous "salad" I mentioned this weekend
• Eating spicy chili
• Sniffing myrrh
• Pressing four fingers above my ankles on both legs
• massaging the webbed parts of my fingers
• squatting
• "spinning" - a Peruvian technique that seems to induce lots of laughter between Jonathan and me but not much laboring. It involves me lying on the floor on a sheet. Jonathan grips the ends of the sheet, pulling them up around my sides, and then wiggles his arms about so that my stomach shakes and rocks from side to side. The idea is that shaking things up in there might get the uterus to start contracting. It sort of feels like a bad amusement park ride and each time we do it we can't stop laughing.
  
• excessive walking
• excessive cuddling
  

Actually, we are going to try one more tonight: Chinese food. But, to be honest, I never need an excuse to eat Chinese food.