Today’s milestone is .. well a big one! At 37 weeks, my baby is considered full term 🙂
I don’t think it’s really really hit me yet – but soon there’s going to be a little person out and about. This little person has been a part of me since I was born myself, and started to grow into his own self 35 weeks ago or so.
It blows my mind to think of his little feet, and who’s nose he has. We wonder if he has hair already, and what colour eyes he’ll have when arrives.
It seems so foreign that he’s in there, hiccuping away and thinking his own thoughts already. I wonder if he really does recognise my voice – he’s sure to recognise my singing voice because I do it enough for the plants outside to know all about!
My bump looks like a shelf that I’ve had installed on my stomach, instead of the nursery, but it’s totally cool to see. Being ‘heavily pregnant’ has it’s oddness, but it’s also really cool to be blooming this way.
Did I tell you that I’m eating for 4 now? I don’t know what’s going on – but I described it to my mum as ‘getting ready for winter’ – I’m eating so much more and sleeping (or trying to) whenever I can. I finish up work tomorrow, so I’ll have more time for cupcakes and catnaps – something I’m really looking forward to!
I can’t bear to read any more birth stories or hear about sad events. I’ve become a mess of a woman, with all these hormones, but at the same time I’m so so calm and ready for it all to change.
Our check up yesterday was short and swift (although the waiting time was long and boring). We’re both doing great – and am basically waiting for each other to be physically ready to make the next move. I’m still mighty uncomfortable but am surrendering to it all – this is just what nature wants for me to experience, so I let it be.
In my prenatal yoga classes, we were taught to keep an ‘inner smile’ while trying to breathe and relax through discomforts.
Inner smile, my ass.
You try inner smiling when a head is wedged in your pelvis and you feel like throwing up all over yourself. (No I’m not in labour – this is all the ‘prelabour’ last month joys some women experience).
Maybe I need a few more classes… and more sleep.
I’ve been trying to find a good mantra to keep in my head for when the ACTUAL pain starts – and I’ve picked the word ‘surrender’. I think it’s a good time to start using it because really, all that is left for me to do is surrender to whatever my body is ready to do.
so here we are, at 36 weeks along.
like my recent posts illustrate, i can hardly believe it. i can hardly believe i’m pregnant to begin with – it’s such a surreal thing, i still catch myself forgetting sometimes too (which is totally crazy).
this past fortnight has brought on the first onset on stretchmarks, and the start of prelabour symptoms. braxton hicks has become more painful, more frequent, more uncomfortable. my cramps are getting stronger and lasting all day now, which makes me reach for the hot water bottle constantly and bend over in pain (which is usually how my cramps go anyway). i know these things can last the entire last month, so i’m taking it in stride and not worrying too much. (i think the ‘amping up’ might have something to do with the raspberry leaf tea i’ve started to drink lately).
my hands feel like they’re 89 years old – my fingertips have gone completely numb like i’ve burnt them, and i will grimace in pain whenever i hold anything heavier than the tv remote. i really hope that they’re right – and this one is temporary…
but other than that, we’re doing well and looking forward to what this next month brings us. i’ve been reading up on alot of birth stories – the good and the bad. i know i can’t predict what is going to happen, but it makes me remember that it all ends the same way – we all get our beautiful new babies in the end!
