Search



LT's Profile

Laura Thieme

Bizresearch President – 11 years - 2008

Fisher College of Business Lecturer on Search Marketing

OSU Russian Studies Grad – 1993

Subscribe Subscribe to Global Warming, Environmental Awareness, Effects of Global Warming: LauraThieme.com

Categories
Pages
Archives
Blogroll

14th October 2008

A Recliner Would Be Really Nice About Now!

Last night, I wandered into Ashley Furniture Store in hopes that I could find a recliner.  Not sure if I wanted to buy it, or not, but more importantly wanted to sit into a recliner and feel like I was in heaven.  A neighbor friend of mine said that she slept in a recliner towards the end of her pregnancy.  I found this chestnut colored leather recliner, and sat in it for a good 30 minutes, wondering if I’d fall asleep in it.  I noticed the paddy wagon in front of Babies R Us - I wondered if they would have to cart me out of Ashley Furniture for squatting.

 Recliner
Link to Product

Does this not look like a good place for a pregnant woman to spend some time?  Too bad the economy is what it is.  I sat in so many recliners, but the worst thing you can tell a pregnant woman is that the product can be delivered in a few weeks.  What?  You would have had me at it can be delivered tomorrow, but Halloween or shortly after that, don’t think so.

The funny thing is that the concept of a recliner seems to go hand in hand with a beer-drinking, man who spends a little too much time on his butt in front of the TV, or a grandpa - not in the slightest would I have ever seen myself in this type of chair. 

Chestnut Recliner

But comfort is priceless and when you’re exhausted, in pain at times, and in discomfort a lot of the time, somehow $800 for a recliner seems rediculously iyet  understandably inspired by a baby girl who is becoming more real all the time.   I feel Melina move most in this position, when I’m in a recliner mode.  I think it was my childbirth doula who said that babies face posterior moreso now than before, due to our recliner lifestyle.  Babies used to face forward, which actually made it harder to come through the birth canal.  Melina sometimes moves so much now that my belly moves around in so many places, you’d think she was shuttering.  It’s not just a kick here or there, it’s a near shutter of activity taking place in my uterus.  Other times, it must be her legs or feet reaching down into my bladder or other parts down there - because quite frankly I feel like I have to use the restroom a little more often - and then the move must change - because the urge passes.

I’ve decided that there needs to be some new computer tables made up for recliners to keep off the pregnant women’s bellies while they typed.

Okay, I’m watching a batch of shows on TV tonight, in partial recliner mode in the glider/ottoman.  House and Mentalist - the latter of which is totally hot.  My legs ache and I have a headache.  But as one of my colleagues shared with me last night, as I was texting her from the recliner at Ashley, the comfort once Melina arrives will be different when she screams .  Somehow that made the recliner at Ashley all that more peaceful - I can merely watch and wonder about her movement at this point.  Soon, within a few weeks, the movement will no longer be a mystery.

Leave a Reply

To reply to this article, please enter your name and write your comment in the textbox below. Some HTML tags are allowed, but others will be stripped if you enter them in your comments.

More from Laura Thieme: