more planning

[mamajoan]

I finally heard back from our babysitter Sally who had been pulling one of her AWOL acts. (In her defense, she did tell us that Jan and Feb would be crazy busy for her at work. She has been traveling for business almost every weekend lately.) She said that both she and her husband are happy to be on my list of people to call to come and take charge of Isaac when I go into labor, even if it's the middle of the night. So that's good to know. She also suggested that she should come and spend a few hours with him soon, to reconnect, since it has been a few months since they saw each other. He certainly remembers her, but some reconnecting would still be good. So we'll probably try to do that soon.

I'm thinking that I'll check with the guys upstairs, Brian and Charles, to see if they mind being called in the middle of the night too. My thought is that if I go into labor at night at home, I can get one of them to come and just snooze on the sofa while I head off to the hospital -- that way I don't have to wait for the actual babysitter person to arrive. I can just go, and when babysitter arrives, Brian/Charles can go back upstairs and back to bed.

I am just obsessive enough to calculate how much of my time is spent on each of the following, and thus theoretically the likelihood of going into labor during same:

At home, sleeping (nighttime + weekend naps): ~10 hours per night plus ~2.5 hours/day 2 days/week = 75 hours/week or 45%
At home, awake (mornings, evenings, weekends, and Thursdays working from home): ~51 hours per week or 30%
At the office: ~8 hours per day 4 days a week = 32 hours per week or 19%
Commuting: ~2 hours per day 4 days a week = 8 hours per week or 5%

yeah, so that moderately relieves my worries about going into labor at the office -- and makes it seem all the more pressing to have a plan in place for going into labor in the middle of the night. whew.

Comments

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

Are all activities equally likely for going into labour ? Ie are you more likely to go into labour of you are exerting yourself versus sleeping :-D

[aelf.livejournal.com]

A bystander would never know this was your second pregnancy. *grin* I guess because at this point, it's not. It's wonderful you have so many people around you who can and will help!