Kelly
One year ago today was my last day at work for 10 whole weeks.
When all of the books and websites say that you nest right before the baby comes, they were so right! The funny thing is… I didn’t realize how severe my nesting problem was until after Miles was born..
At work…
I deep cleaned my entire bench area, moving pipette racks and vortexes to remove every speck of dust. I went through my paper piles to get rid of things that were unnecessary or out of date. I cleaned out all of my drawers to straighten them up. I walked my colleagues around the lab and my office to orient them to all of my project work – just in case something would happen. Dr. Doran had me a little worried.
I also prepared a very detailed document of all of my projects for my boss and fellow molecular buddies. This document gave a project back ground, current project status, what steps I planned to do next, and ideas of troubleshooting the project in case a couple of steps would fail.
Finally, I shut down my computer – all the way down – I never did this!!
Weird, huh? It gets worse.
At home, I was making dinner, but scrubbing the kitchen at the same time. When that was done and dinner was in the oven, I found a strange smell in the pantry closet (BTW – this was a huge, deep closet) I pulled absolutely everything out of the closet and scrubbed the walls and put everything back into its perfect place. I never did find what I thought I smelled. Later that night, after dinner, I packed a bag just in case I went into labor. I was three weeks out from my due date and it sounded like a good idea. I also put together a list of things I would have to grab last minute – since I used them and couldn’t fathom packing them up for 3 weeks or longer. By this time, I really should have gone to bed. Instead, I started an hour+ long endeavor to put together the perfect playlist on my ipod for my delivery. I wanted some music to soothe and relax, some to encourage and motivate, some to energize and power through, and some to celebrate and focus!
OK.. super late now! Nate and I went to bed……
Since I have pictures weekly throughout my pregnancy beginning at 12.5 weeks, I thought that I should share. Here’s my first preggo picture (12.5 weeks)and last preggo picture(36.5 weeks) before Miles was born. It was taken the day of my last Dr. appointment. I was huge – everywhere!
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