I have been meaning to start Flashback Friday for the last couple of months. This would be a time for me to write about things that I hadn't documented prior to beginning the blog again in earnest. (Read between the lines: So I don't feel so guilty for not recording the beginning of Mae's life). It would also be a buildup to the big one (Mae's one year old birthday).
Since it is hot here today (in the 90's), it makes me recall last summer when I was pregnant with Baby Cummings. (We didn't know whether Mae was going to be a girl or boy). The summer of 2009 brought record setting temperatures to the Pacific Northwest. At the end of July, one month from my due date (August 28th), it was 103 degrees. 103 degrees is hot anywhere, but with no air conditioning and being 8 months pregnant it was pretty unbearable.
I was very fortunate and had a very easy and relatively stress free pregnancy. I gained the correct amount of weight, ran until 6 months, had no feet swelling, had no early contractions, didn't waddle, wore heels, never had the feeling that I wanted the baby out, and didn't have severe mood swings. However, during the heat wave of 2009, I was pretty miserable. Miserable.
I would sit on the couch and sweat and sweat. To escape the heat, I would take a dip in Lake Washington at 8:00 pm. There were so many people at the beach you would have thought, it was mid-day on a Saturday. I would go to the car at night and turn the engine on and blast the AC. I would open the fridge and get a blast of cool air.
About a month before, I came to the realization that I might never be pregnant again (it isn't a given that it will happen again) so I might as well embrace it and love every minute of the baby and life I was growing inside of me. Every kick, every jab, and every minute was to be a moment that might not happen to me again. So despite it being 103 degrees, no AC, and me carrying around an extra 30 pounds, I never complained about being pregnant, just why did we live somewhere with no air conditioning.
Photos of me at 37 weeks.
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