Almost halfway there...

I had another midwife appointment this morning. This time with J. She also had an internationally trained midwifery student with her. It was a fairly uneventful appointment. BP was good, baby was cooperative. J heard the heartbeat on the fetoscope but couldn't keep it long enough to time it. It's early yet though so that she heard it at all is awesome :)

I got the results of the ultrasound from Friday and based on the results I'm going for a repeat next week. They want to get another look at one section of the heart. Hopefully everything looks perfect when we go. I must say I was impressed with the speed. I had the ultrasound Friday, results were already processed and waiting for me at 9:00 this morning, and by the time I left at 9:40 I already had another appointment time scheduled for next week.

My next appointment is May 13th, exactly a month from now. Tobias wants to come with :) He is very very excited about this pregnancy.

~Faith

And in case there was any doubt...

Which there wasn't... but just in case I have this from this morning.

September 8th. The anniversary of the day I first found out I was pregnant for the first time.

Wow...

~faith

Two Lines

Yep. There they are...

~Faith

Merry Christmas. And then I felt it...

I was nursing Linus to keep him content just before we got in the car for a day full of Christmas celebrations on Friday morning when he delatched and I felt it... a vasospasm. That only ever means one thing for me. Major hormonal shift, usually caused by pregnancy.

Of course I took a test. It was so faint as to be inconclusive. So I put it out of my mind and just enjoyed my day without thinking about it.

Then tonight curiosity got the better of me again. Another test and 5 minutes later. Two lines.

Oh.my.goodness... God does have a funny sense of timing.

~Faith

Get Busy!

That's what we need to do today. James may or may not be off tomorrow, which means that if he is not he only has a one day weekend. Today has to be an uber productive day of catch up on the housework and make some headway on the master to do list.

I think we can I think we can I think we can I think we can

~Faith

Less than 20 days...

until my due date. Not that due dates mean a whole lot, but it's kind of neat to see a 1 in front of the double digit number on my pregnancy ticker. Makes it seem really really close though (which I suppose it is LOL).

I still have a ton to do. I'm trying to lay low this week because I've been getting no sleep thanks to contractions at night, but it's not helping my to do list...

~faith

What a Day for a Birthday

Since it looks like baby could arrive anytime (or not for another month or more lol) I decided to come up with something cool/positive if I can about every day... So for 37 weeks:

January 20: Obama officially takes office
January 22: Last day I can have a baby that is at least a week old by the time of T's appointment at KGH next week (which I really wanted... either a one week+ old baby or an inside baby)
January 25: All of my major support people will be in town and avaliable
January 26: Chinese New Year

I couldn't come up with anything for Wednesday, Friday or Saturday but of those only Saturday would be really not good... James is at work all day, Andra is in Toronto, and Mom is in Kingston. Baby needs to either come up before that or stay in until Sunday ;-)

~Faith

Loooooow Baby

I had my 37 week appointment with my midwife today (a day before 37 weeks :)) We talked about all of the prepping signs I'm getting from my body and she confirmed that the baby is quite low in my pelvis. This is all good news. Of course labour could still be weeks away, but it's encouraging to see progress already being made.

I scheduled two more appointments. She said she doesn't think I'll likely make it to the next one with her (two weeks from today) but I scheduled it anyway because I really like having the first appointment of the morning and it's easier to have Monday appointments when I can (which I can't with my primary midwife because she doesn't work Mondays). So I will have two appointments while I'm 38 weeks (unless I have a baby)... the next one is a 38 weeks even, and the one after that at 38+6.

We had a busy day today running errands and I'm wiped. I'm going to head to bed early to see if I can get some extra sleep in before James starts his three straight 13+ hour days...

~Faith

Soooo tired

Last night was the first night I was having cramping and contractions that would not go away when I lay down. No matter what I did they stayed. So needless to say I got very little sleep last night *yawn*

I am hoping for some better sleep tonight. Tomorrow I have another midwifery appointment and a busy day afterwords so not feeling so spaced out from exhaustion would be lovely...

~faith

Oh Prodromal Labour... How I Love Thee

Bring on the prodromal labour! Yesterday I had hours of erratic contractions (which aren't that bad) and cramping (which I hate because it makes me feel sick to my stomach). My body is apparently getting ready... which is lovely except this could (and will most likely :P) go on for weeks yet. Sounds like loads of fun *grins* Ah well, hopefully active labour when it does start is made easier by this "prep" work.

Only a few more days until I'm cleared for my homebirth. I still think this is likely to be a February baby, noone in my family goes this early LOL In fact, probably with my luck not until late February :P

I'm not overly complaining... I still am way behind on my to do list. I need to get my butt in gear before this baby gets here!

~Faith