Hear Hear!! I was desperately attected to my W when she was pregnant. I still remember those curves like it was yesterday. It has always been my dream to start a business to "service" pregnant women. If I were more entrepreneurial, and more of a stud, I'm sure I'd have all the business I could handle!
If you have ever had your water broken in the hospital, which you have not, you would know that it is a very uncomfortable procedure and NOT the fun that you are thinking about......
Yeah I find pregnancy kinda sexy myself. Well not the way it looks..more the fringe benefits.
But H just doesn't feel that way; as I have said before it is a combo of him being freaked out by the close proximity of the baby, as well as just not liking to see me with a large stomach.
Barn, if I thought it would work I would GLADLY take you up on your offer! But unless you can attach a crochet hook in the end of your penis and manuever that thing so that you can break my water but not so much as brush up against the head of my child (I pity da fool who hurts my children, ever) then I'm afraid I'll just have to wait for it to happen naturally, or via the doctor.
Thanks for the offer though; I know I can always count on you!!
JoJo, are ya sure just banging on the door won't do it?? I'm willing to try it, night after night, just to make sure and to keep the study scientific, of course..
The banging is fun for you all right but like you said, you need a LONG crochet hook to do the trick... Ant the offer of a purely scientific study, too. What a woman....All in the name of science.
Just keep rubbing it in my face that you are getting some night after night while I shrivel up and die.....At least you will have an enforced abstinace program for a couple of weeks. Try 22 months....
Oh sister, I'm not getting it night after night. FAR from it.
Once or twice a weekend is about all H can handle and even then it seems to take a LOT for him to muster up anything resembling desire.
I hope it returns to normal soon, although it occurred to me today that I will be lookin pretty horrid after the baby arrives and if that sucka is going to use THAT against me too, then I'm sunk!
Honey, who rebounds from pregnancy at about 3 or 4 months but, crimanately, that is a long time.
My bad. I know that it's not night after night, but from my seriously "ain't had some in forever" mindset, it's much more regular then the past 16 years for me.
And 3-4 months is not out of line to get back into shape considering how streched out you get when you are past term. I hope that he realizes what a gift he has in you, my dear and treats you like you deserve and want to be treated.
Jo, He realizes what he has in his mind and his heart, but unfortunately his you-know-what won't lie for him. Now if that little sucker ever realizes what a gift he has, I will be set for life!
I keep thinking it's too bad I can't give you a real new baby present, so I'm going to give you a virtual one. My favorite new mother poem by Sylvia Plath.
Quote: Sylvia Plath's “Morning Song”
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I'm no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind's hand.
All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral In my Victorian nightgown. Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons.
Best Wishes,
MM
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
Mojo, Thank you so much for this. I have read it three times now. My favorite line is "our voices echo, magnifying your arrival." That is precisely what it was like when D2 was born. It was the middle of the night and very dark and quiet. The only people present were the doctor, myself and my H. The doctor was respectful and quiet when she was finally born and attended to his doc stuff while H and I marveled at her and scanned her head to toe, over and over. It was magical.
It was so different from D5's birth which was in the hospital and the lights were so bright and everything was noisy and chaotic. The nurses took her pretty soon after having her for all the tests and junk. It just wasn't the same!
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to do that. It really means a lot to me on this...yet another day in which I am pregnant and not holding my new babe yet.
Oh well I have a busy week planned so that I am not focused on what is NOT happening. I would probably still be maniacally sewing but I ran out of thread. The thought of dragging two little kids to the store for one stinkin spool of thread is just not appealing to me right now.
What, not being a Domestic Goddess and spinning your own thread right now? You slacker..... Never thought that a little thing like a matching thread would stop you from doing something....
