I’ve been a bit lost the last few days…
This is the same week of pregnancy that I was hospitalized with pre-term labor last time. I expected everything to be different this time around–after all, no complications had presented themselves yet–but then I woke up Sunday night with the familiar tightening across my belly.
So I’m waiting it out in a haze of fatigue and worry, relieved at the permission (a.k.a. order) to stay in bed all day but disheartened at the sight of Natalie wandering the house listlessly. I wish I could do bright and exciting things with her. I wish I could be productive. I wish I could fully relax. But my mind is too fragmented to focus on any one thing; it’s skipping recklessly from anxiety to anxiety, leaving no time for perspective.
Looking up stories on Italian hospital procedures isn’t helping. Everything sounds so different, and while I can get used to different transportation systems and different business hours, I can’t welcome the idea of a different birthing environment… at least not the kind I’m told to expect. This, plus looking up pictures of a dear friend’s wedding we couldn’t attend, and I’m spectacularly homesick for the first time since we moved here.
Is it OK for me to just be a little bit hormonal and emotional and possibly even irrational tonight?
yes – you have my complete permission to be hormonal and emotional.
I understand what you’re feeling about wishing you could be bright and exciting and productive and your brain a haze of anxiety. I feel the same exact way as I enter my third month on unemployment. :-[
I love you – hang in there. It will be okay – even if it doesn’t feel like it.
sj
Absolutely.