Babies, babies
Jackie's little girl was born yesterday at 5 pm. Her name is Yalena and she was 7 lbs and 19 inches long. She is beautiful. I went to the hospital to visit them and to talk to Jackie about her experience. She had a hard labor that ended in a csection. She seems okay...said she was so out of it from exhaustion and meds that she just didn't care.
It's just so weird to see what comes out of a pregnant lady's belly after so long. Yes, I know babies come out, duh. But it was just weird holding Yalena and looking down at her and thinking that she was in Jackie's belly...and there's one just like her in mine. It comes out crying and squirming and needing you. It's so much more than a change in physical condition. An actual person comes out of it. It's weird. Very, very weird.
And seeing that little sweetheart finally has just made me so much more anxious to meet mine. I came home and packed my bag, filled out some more of the baby book and went through more of his little outfits. I just want him here so bad, it's crazy. I am seriously the most impatient person in the world, and so these last few weeks are absolute torture. I am trying to be pragmatic; I have less than 4 weeks tops before my son is born. It's the fact that it can happen anytime now, not an exact moment that is planned, that makes me insane. It's actually going to require a little intuition on my part to know when. I'm not very intuitive, which is my way of saying I'm not going to know what the hell is going on until his head is hanging out of my vagina.
I guess I am just saying I am so done with being pregnant! I can't freakin say it enough!
I'm so sleepy right now. Yalena cried a lot in the room. She cried when Matt (friend of ours) handed her to me and it kind of scared me. I think the excitement took it out of all of us. Imagine how Jackie must feel! I have to take Vance to work tomorrow. I have this "meet the pedi" thing at Austin Regional Clinic at noon to pick the baby's pediatrician. I guess it's a good thing I'm still pregnant. Okay, after tomorrow afternoon he'll officially have no more good reason to stay inside me.