June 15, 2021
Today, I’m grateful for: A deadline
Things are weird right now. And the scope of what I feel grateful for these days looks a little bit different. But today, I’m feeling grateful for a deadline. They officially scheduled our baby girl’s birth date: August 2nd! I’ve known for a long while now that I wasn’t gonna make it to my due date, and that I wasn’t gonna get the birth I desired and that I wasn’t gonna have the low-key, glowing, fun, “look at that cute baby-bump” pregnancy…..but I’m happy to at least have a date I can still look forward to. A deadline. A goal.
If I can make it to that date, it means baby girl has grown to full-term, and that I’ll get a (mostly) normal planned c-section experience and that I dodged any of the scary, emergent, uncontrolled situations and risks that come along with this condition. And that is about as good as it gets for me right now.
I don’t know what the days between now and then will bring, but today, I’m grateful for a deadline. A goal date to work toward. And one (of hopefully many more) uneventful days that we get to check off awaiting that date.
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