Woe Is Meeee

Things I wouldn't want to do with a bad head cold:

• Ascend and descend in an airplane
• Go scuba diving
• Push out a baby

The first two I'm pretty sure I can avoid this week, the last one I'm not so sure. I can handle a cold, and I can handle being 39.5 weeks pregnant, but the two together are a little more than I can take on cheerfully. Who'd have thought that on the list of things making me uncomfortable this week, being hugely pregnant wouldn't even rate #1?

Thank goodness for husbands--I was able to send Geoff out for Sudafed (it's on my list of doctor-approved, over-the-counter drugs). He had to have his driver's license scanned, and sign something saying he wouldn't use it to make crystal meth.

He's also retreated twice to the couch to sleep. Once because of my violent coughing fits, and once because apparently my virus-clogged sleeping self is prone to making some kind of noise that's a cross between "a frustrated ape who really wants the banana bad, but can't figure out how to correctly stack the boxes to get it" and "a sea lion sleeping on a raft when another sea lion jumps up out of the water and lands right on top of him." I'd say that he's making that all up, but I know it's true because I've actually woken myself up by being so noisy. I am sooo classy right now. In my defense I'll say that I can be completely cured of making midnight sleep-honking noises by NyQuil, but that is not on my list of doctor-approved drugs. In Geoff's defense I'll say that he's allowed to describe me that way because he then spent his waking hours asking what he can do for me and how he can help (and thus it's him who is entered onto the meth lab watchlist, ha ha).

At my doctor's appointment this morning they were sympathetic but not too concerned. I had lost a pound this week but everything else looks good. I am not dilated much more than last week though--still less than 1 cm. She said that the bad news is that viral infections run their course more slowly in pregnant women because your immune system is a bit suppressed, but the good news is that you are passing your antibodies to the fetus through the placenta, so there's not much worry about the baby getting sick from this cold, whether she comes out now or later or whatever.

So hopefully I'll feel better over the next few days and then have this kid sometime at the end of the week. Or maybe I'll stay 1 cm forever and have to be induced ten days after my due date. Or perhaps I'll break my water at any moment by coughing or sneezing too hard.