a mellow Sunday

Well, here I sit, still battling a cold (with coughs) at 29weeks and 4days! I have had this darn cold for about 2 weeks now. So I am excited about hitting 30 weeks on Thursday. Its kinda just a little pick me up that I will be 7 1/2 months pregnant. I think the more and longer I am pregnant the more its just this intense experience that you really have to pace yourself for. I have been having days that have left me exhausted and other days that I am doing well. I have had a bit of swelling around my ankles but none on my hands, so me thinks that its alot of just water retention.

I started the pre-stuff for an eventual nursery. I took out alot of baby/child focused videos (including all my Disney vids) and Mr. Rogers tapes out. My goal this week (perhaps on Friday) is to start cleaning all the clothes (I bought baby laundry detergent- EXPENSIVE- but worth it in the beginning :) :) and sorting them for now. We have this great open wire draw thing that would make a fab diaper changing table and a great sorter for different clothes. So thats my goal later this week and I really need to make a list of what I need and how to get it. We ran into a bunch of family this weekend and one has a slightly bigger than a bassinet to give me and something else so that should be good. But I will make a more detailed list when I know!

I had been searching for a baby book and I was rummaging through my father's library and I found an extra baby book that my parents didn't use after they had us kids.. While it looks slightly 70sish, its never been used!!! And its Jewish based so thats good :) I am also gonna borrow my Dad's new digital camera and take real pictures for the baby book.

So I think thats the latest for now.. Just pacing myself, not overdoing it, taking all my meds and vitamins and just being!! :)

~29weeks, 4 days!

blood pressure

So I am officially 'high risk' b/c I have high blood pressure. Woohoo. I had a temporary blood pressure scare early on in the pregnancy so I had a feeling it was coming, and now its back! It mostly means that I have to be on meds twice a day and am monitored more closely for the rest of the pregnancy including but not limited to non stress tests (where you lay down for 20 mins and they monitor baby's heartrate) and more ultrasounds. I had one last week and the baby looked good :) So I think that was my main concern and I am kinda glad I get to see him more often towards the end of the pregnancy.

Its basically a wait and see game now, but my feeling is each hour I can keep this child in the womb and healthy, then its an hr well spent. Its been a bit of a mind game trying to not try to accomplish and not even thinking of trying to accomplish things in general. I really just need to sit back, put my feet up and wait it out. Its like when you are pregnant, your mind, body and pregnant belly are all on different paths. One wants to do this, the other this and the 3rd being like "yo womyn you need to chillax." So I am trying to listen to my pregnant belly and just chillax for a bit. But I have alot of nervous energy that needs to go somewhere!! So one day at a time.

7 months tomorrow :)

So I have a cold :( my first in this pregnancy. It's not a cold yet though I must say, just a stuffy nose! And I get to go on air today with it! woohoo!! Just wanted to update about new occurences, my belly is starting to change shapes. One day its rounder, the other days it more vertical. Me thinks that its the baby moving around and trying to get comfortable. In terms of word usage, around week 32, I am officially going to change from "bebe" to baby in my language and then around week 37I will start officially using "my son." Although I am bit hesitant until baby is actually born, but bebe is considered full term at 37 so we shall go from there.. I have other "week goals" for myself.

Week 30-31- Start washing all clothes I got for bebe/ sorting them into bins
Week 32-33- Purchase bassinet, start putting bebe's room together
Week 34-35- Start on bebe book (including printing out this blog and putting it in book format)
Week 36-37- Purchase stroller, diapers, rocker, more clothes, finish making bebe room pretty
Week 38-40- Freak out appropriately and enjoy my last bits of sleep!

All subject to change of course as I feel that I am going to be delivering early. But, I went to Thai food w/my dad last night and he got a fortune cookie that said "Three months from today will be an important day" which of course made us think that the bebe will be born June 18th (when the Estimated Due Date (EDD) is June 12th/13th). So we shall see!!

~27 weeks, 6 days- 7 months tomorrow!!

midwife

So I just watched "the Business of Being Born" which is a documentary abt the goodness of home birth and the badness of hospitals. It was very moving and very compelling and very like "womyn can do it- its natural- don't make it bad."

It was interesting. I am fortunate to go to a OB/GYN practice that has both midwives/doctors in equal numbers. I was going to have a doula but it looks like I haven't really taken up the lead on that one- but we shall see. So, if I use a midwife then they are less likely to make me want to do drugs. But I will still be in a hospital setting and most likely doing things I don't want to do. But, I don't know.. I have to sign all these legal forms for the hospital basically giving them consent to do whatever they want. I mean I hope to labor as long as I can at home until contractions are 10 minutes apart I believe... Then head to the hospital.

My thing currently is I hate the idea of IVs. I don't like 'em. I don't want 'em.. If I can have my baby delivered safely, then why do I need to have drugs fed to me through my blood?? So I am working on that emotionally and mentally. We shall see what turns up.

So tis it, I freaking can't believe I will be considered full term in 9 weeks and 3 days. I mean the time is just slowly melting away. Somewhere deep inside expects me to deliver early- I don't know why. But I just kinda feel it. I think thats why I am counting the way I am.

So thats my latest prediction: early delivery. We shall see what happens!! About once/week now I have been going by my nearest Super Target (which is about 2 mins from my house) and stocking up on great little boy clothes in the discount area. Makes me feel somewhat more prepared. Now I just need a bassinet, stroller, diapers and I think I am ready for the first 3 months of baby.

:) ~27 weeks, 3 days!

27 weeks

I thought I would show a picture of 27 weeks! I have my next OB appt next Monday I believe-



I will try to update on Sunday when I hit 3rd trimester :)

Hospital Tour

Well I am now 26 weeks and 2 days preggers. I took a tour of the Womyn's Center in which I will be both laboring and delivering. It was a bit overwhelming in the beginning, but as we started going around I have to say each fear- I think the fear of the unknown- kinda melted away. It was reallllyyyy warm and nice and friendly and we saw babies.. They have snack rooms, warm blanket centers, DVD/VHS/CD players in each room.. It was just weird and kinda cool and scary at the same time to think that I will be spending the most 48 most intense hours of my life in that building, in those rooms, and g-d willing coming out w/a beautiful bebe boy :)

My mama came with me, but there was another womyn there who didn't have a partner (she said her husband was busy), and others. But really you are just caught up in you during that time. You are so picturing yourself in those hospital rooms, watching the contractions, feeling it all or not (yay epidurals!) and just going at it.

I am pretty confident at this point I am going to be working with a midwife, as half of my new practice has midwives, so thats good. I am hoping on Monday to sign up for a Childbirth 5hr class thingie w/these same midwives. So it will be great to be studying from the same ladies who will be there for the birth.

When one is pregnant 37 weeks is considered full term.. I will 37 weeks in 10 weeks and 5 days, so really time is coming to a close. I have to also fill out my birthing plan and pre-admission form this week and send it to the hospital. My goal is also in about 3-4 weeks to make my hospital bag up, plan bebe's first outfit, buy things that I haven't gotten yet (bottles, pacifiers, diapers, bassinet, etc) and just get ready. Also on the legal front I plan to get life insurance this summer, as they require a physical and I don't want to do that while I am pregnant- to much stress..And I know that I need to create some sort of will, another subject that I will broach emotionally/mentally in the next couple of weeks.

And lastly, HELLO 3rd trimester... Literally 1 week from tomorrow begins my 3rd trimester (27 weeks, and 3 days).

So thats all the news for now!!