Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
39 weeks 6 days.
We had a great weekend!
My old buddy from Ai took AMAZING prego pics of me! Check out his website! Can't wait to see them!!!! It was so much fun and I felt so BEAUTIFUL!
Here are some snapshots from the weekend...
copycat!
huge!
The due date is TOMORROW! But, the midwife says it will probably be another week... I am still 1cm, 40% effaced... but I am feeling a lot of cramping! That's good! We are ready when she is! The more my body can get ready before I go into labor the better so I am ok with this!
Just focusing 100% on being positive and compassion filled... It means more to me than ANYTHING that we bring my daughter into this world as peacefully as possible.
It is ALL for her.
My old buddy from Ai took AMAZING prego pics of me! Check out his website! Can't wait to see them!!!! It was so much fun and I felt so BEAUTIFUL!
Here are some snapshots from the weekend...
copycat!
huge!
The due date is TOMORROW! But, the midwife says it will probably be another week... I am still 1cm, 40% effaced... but I am feeling a lot of cramping! That's good! We are ready when she is! The more my body can get ready before I go into labor the better so I am ok with this!
Just focusing 100% on being positive and compassion filled... It means more to me than ANYTHING that we bring my daughter into this world as peacefully as possible.
It is ALL for her.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
38 weeks and 6 days weekend update.
This weekend we went to the Dunedin Doggie Rescue dog wash at the Dunedin Brewery. It was way too hot for me! Jackie and Royal got washed and everyone but me got to enjoy a cold beer. I had root beer and it was delicious! You can see where I held the cold glass up to my shirt to keep cool :)
Yes I am as tired and uncomfortable as I look.
Today our bed finally got delivered. Just have to set it up and let it come alive for a couple days before we can sleep on it. Today at 430 I have a midwife appointment and will see if anything has changed since last week. I haven't felt much this week other than the baby moving around a lot and my back pain. The back pain is somewhat better as long as I don't move around too much. I have been getting massages at my chiropractics office by the most amazing woman. I feel so blessed to have been introduced to that place!
I had a dream last night that I went into labor in the middle of the night. Everyone was asleep and even though I tried, I couldn't wake them up. So.. I delivered the baby by myself and when they woke up there she was! She was beautiful...
I am nervous but I feel very prepared and confident. I know that no matter what happens I am going to meet my baby and that's what matters. I know I can do this. I have the strength of every other woman before me. I feel so blessed to have been given the gift of experiencing true creation.
Tyler is so excited too. He is giving me so much strength. He gives me massages every night and makes sure I am healthy and happy. I snapped this pic of him while he was napping last weekend... he is a beautiful man, the rare kind that we should all strive to be more like...
Yes I am as tired and uncomfortable as I look.
Today our bed finally got delivered. Just have to set it up and let it come alive for a couple days before we can sleep on it. Today at 430 I have a midwife appointment and will see if anything has changed since last week. I haven't felt much this week other than the baby moving around a lot and my back pain. The back pain is somewhat better as long as I don't move around too much. I have been getting massages at my chiropractics office by the most amazing woman. I feel so blessed to have been introduced to that place!
I had a dream last night that I went into labor in the middle of the night. Everyone was asleep and even though I tried, I couldn't wake them up. So.. I delivered the baby by myself and when they woke up there she was! She was beautiful...
I am nervous but I feel very prepared and confident. I know that no matter what happens I am going to meet my baby and that's what matters. I know I can do this. I have the strength of every other woman before me. I feel so blessed to have been given the gift of experiencing true creation.
Tyler is so excited too. He is giving me so much strength. He gives me massages every night and makes sure I am healthy and happy. I snapped this pic of him while he was napping last weekend... he is a beautiful man, the rare kind that we should all strive to be more like...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
38 weeks
I want to blog this before I forget it all...
Yesterday I had my weekly midwife appointment. She examined me for the first time...
I am 5% effaced (how thinned out the cervix is. 100% = ready to push). 1 cm dilated (10 cm is ready to push) and the baby is 0 station (how high or low in the pelvis her head is. 0 is good! She is low, but not so low that I am in labor yet.) Gina said there is plenty of room for the baby to descend. That might sound weird to you but thats really comforting to me!
I gained (or the baby did) 1/2 a lb and my uterus hasn't gotten any bigger. I am still measuring small... so hopefully small baby!
The tub will be delivered this weekend. We have a bedroom ready for it!
Next week I will be examined again and we will have something to compare it too.
Unfortonuately, I have developed some serious back pain again. This is a reoccuring problem I have had my entire adult life. I saw the chiropractor and massage therapist yesterday and am going again tomorrow. It is so uncomfortable that all I can really do is lay around. I am also having some digestion issues that is making me dehydrated. It feels like it is because of stress so I am doing what I have to do to distance myself from any possible stress because some things are just more important.
Pics will come soon when I get around to it. I am going back to bed to RELAX and drinking gatorade and smart water and continue to play the waiting game.
Yesterday I had my weekly midwife appointment. She examined me for the first time...
I am 5% effaced (how thinned out the cervix is. 100% = ready to push). 1 cm dilated (10 cm is ready to push) and the baby is 0 station (how high or low in the pelvis her head is. 0 is good! She is low, but not so low that I am in labor yet.) Gina said there is plenty of room for the baby to descend. That might sound weird to you but thats really comforting to me!
I gained (or the baby did) 1/2 a lb and my uterus hasn't gotten any bigger. I am still measuring small... so hopefully small baby!
The tub will be delivered this weekend. We have a bedroom ready for it!
Next week I will be examined again and we will have something to compare it too.
Unfortonuately, I have developed some serious back pain again. This is a reoccuring problem I have had my entire adult life. I saw the chiropractor and massage therapist yesterday and am going again tomorrow. It is so uncomfortable that all I can really do is lay around. I am also having some digestion issues that is making me dehydrated. It feels like it is because of stress so I am doing what I have to do to distance myself from any possible stress because some things are just more important.
Pics will come soon when I get around to it. I am going back to bed to RELAX and drinking gatorade and smart water and continue to play the waiting game.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
On Children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
-Kahlil Gibran
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
-Kahlil Gibran
Thursday, July 22, 2010
37 weeks FULL TERM!
the time has come. I am 37 weeks. 37 weeks = full term. full term = baby can be born anytime and be healthy and mature enough. 37 weeks to the midwife patient = in the clear to have the baby with the midwife and not at a hospital. (more on midwife's and natural birth coming soon.)
On Monday we (finally) got our second ultrasound. We only were getting a second one because the first one saw a possible mass in the stomach area. We went to Bayfront for the appointment and I am SOOOOOO glad I chose to have my baby with Gina (my midwife) and not somewhere like Bayfront.
The ultrasound went REALLY fast. It was a blur. But all good news... she is cephalic (head down) = perfect position for birth (good baby!), healthy with no mass, small but not too small, fingers, toes, and a very pretty face. We got this one blurry shot of her profile (she is looking towards your left). Sorry it got folded up. whoops.
Does this make more sense?
I am trying to go swimming as much as possible because it is great excersize and the only time I feel comfortable and cool. Today me and my mom and dad went to Ozona Blue and here is some sexy 37 week pregnant lady pics...
Do I look pregnant still?
Dad said to pose like a model and this is all I had in me...
Oh, and I saw one of my favorite people today- my chiropractor. I invited her to attend our labor and delivery. Turns out she recently has decided to specialize in Pediatric Chiropractics and was honored that I ask her. I am honored that I will (hopefully) be her first birth.
Sometimes you don't get what you want, you get what you need.
On Monday we (finally) got our second ultrasound. We only were getting a second one because the first one saw a possible mass in the stomach area. We went to Bayfront for the appointment and I am SOOOOOO glad I chose to have my baby with Gina (my midwife) and not somewhere like Bayfront.
The ultrasound went REALLY fast. It was a blur. But all good news... she is cephalic (head down) = perfect position for birth (good baby!), healthy with no mass, small but not too small, fingers, toes, and a very pretty face. We got this one blurry shot of her profile (she is looking towards your left). Sorry it got folded up. whoops.
Does this make more sense?
I am trying to go swimming as much as possible because it is great excersize and the only time I feel comfortable and cool. Today me and my mom and dad went to Ozona Blue and here is some sexy 37 week pregnant lady pics...
Do I look pregnant still?
Dad said to pose like a model and this is all I had in me...
Oh, and I saw one of my favorite people today- my chiropractor. I invited her to attend our labor and delivery. Turns out she recently has decided to specialize in Pediatric Chiropractics and was honored that I ask her. I am honored that I will (hopefully) be her first birth.
Sometimes you don't get what you want, you get what you need.
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