drop, please
According to my favorite pregnancy calculator, I’m current 37 & 4/7 weeks pregnant. Now should be about the time for the baby to drop, so I’m trying to do everything I possibly can to encourage that. The acupuncturist did a some points to help with that, and starting today, I’m going to make myself walk every day.
This is harder than it seems to be, for me, at least. Here are some of my fabulous excuses for not walking more often, all of which elicit much eye-rolling from the spouse:
- It’s hot. By the time I wake up and get dressed, it’s heating up enough that it’s too hot to go for a walk outside.
- In the afternoon/evenings when it’s cool enough, I’m too tired.
- We live on a bit of a crest of a hill. Which means that walking in either direction requires an arduous walk uphill. (Okay, okay – only arduous when you’re 8 months pregnant.)
- Walking around the neighborhood is boring.
- Walking around the neighborhood while listening to something on iPod/iPhone is only slightly less boring. (I used to love this. While pregnant, I find it oddly annoying. No idea why.)
Now, I realize these reasons would never get me out of hell, but they’re all quite true, to some degree. Still, I realized the importance of walking to get the baby to drop, even as the 21-year-old in me shrieks at the thought of voluntarily doing something to shift a bowling ball into my pelvis. So I’ve figured out a plan that only someone in Los Angeles would think of: I shall drive somewhere nice to walk and walk around there instead! :-)
Some of the locations I have in mind are: the beach, near Malibu; Huntington or Descanso Gardens; Sunset Plaza; the Grove; Aquarium of the Pacific; and West Hollywood.
Any other tips/advice for getting the baby to drop? Factual tidbits or old wives tales welcome!
