It started at 2:00 with the need to pee, then it was the neighbor’s barking dog, then my own yowling cat, and then finally an excruciating pain ripping through my stomach, and that is why I am awake at just about 3:30 in the morning. I thought for one scary moment that the pain might be labor. It wouldn’t be too unusual to give birth at 35-and-a-half weeks. But no. I think it’s just my digestive system telling me how unhappy it is.
Well, join the club, I reply to it. It is making me unhappy, too. The only solution is to mollify my stomach, because no matter how hard I fight with it, it will always win. I don’t know what pissed it off so much, but I think I know how to make it more forgiving of my occasional transgressions. It’s time to get back to my early-pregnancy diet, which included a high-fiber breakfast, a high-fiber nighttime snack, lots and lots of water, my prenatal vitamin at the roughly the same time every night, and no iron pill. I’ll get back on the iron once everything else is sorted out.
And my Faithful Reader, whom I love so much, had better keep his filching hands off my fiber.
Isn’t my digestion a lovely topic for Week 35? But it gets even better. I’ve also got sore, swollen hands and feet, and I still can’t sleep.
Since my baby shower was on Sunday, it technically ought to fall under Week 36, but I’m going to tell you a little about it now anyway, because it was a good thing and good things are good to think about. My friend K— came up from D.C., which was crazy but wonderful of her. My Mom and other friend K— came from CT. Two aunts came down from MA. It was great to see them all. But it was Faithful Reader’s family and family friends who filled the restaurant and who are largely responsible for the magnificent mountain of gifts.
The turnout and amazing display of generosity made me realize just how much love this baby has waiting for him out in the world. He’s a lucky little guy, and I am lucky to be his mom.
In my own defense, the fiber you refer to are FiberOne breakfast bars and Crackling Oat Bran cereal that are in reality, according to several Harvard University studies, camouflaged candy bars and extremely small tasty cookies. Fiber is the new “organic” buzzword and I’m introducing several product of my own before the big corps get to them first. I think there’s big untapped demand for my Fiber Fat, Fiber Crack, and Fiber Coke and Jack line of products.