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What to Expect When You’re 37 Weeks Pregnant During a Pandemic
They don’t cover this in the books
I wouldn’t know from experience since it’s my first time having a baby, but I hear it’s normal to feel a bit nervous and have trouble sleeping as your due date approaches.
When it comes to being 37 weeks pregnant in the midst of a global pandemic… well… there is no “normal”.
After I woke up at 3am today, hungry and having to pee for the second or third time, I proceeded to spend at least an hour scrolling through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Eventually I fell asleep again. When my alarm went off at 7am, I promptly deleted all social media apps from my phone. The updates were getting to be too much.
Two weeks ago, I’d wake up thinking about the things we still needed to set up in the nursery. Now I wake up wondering what the state of our local hospital will be like in a few weeks.
By 8am, I added several items to my Amazon cart, among them cortisone cream (stretch marks are itchy), electrolyte drink tablets (I heard hospitals are very dry places), and a 34-oz bag of peanut butter M&Ms (no explanation needed). My husband added a book called “Hurrah for Gin: A Book for Perfectly Imperfect Parents” that was recommended to him by a coworker. The M&M’s won’t arrive until…
