Wow - a month has passed already since my last post. In that time, I've developed Irritable Uterus, my Carpal Tunnel Syndrome just about drove me nuts, my feet lost their bones, AND I left work earlier than planned for my mat leave.
As for the Irritable Uterus (I.U.), now that I'm "term" (able to have the baby at home, safely), it doesn't provide much of an issue other than terrible discomfort to me. But oh well. It was the reason I left work 2 weeks earlier than planned. I.U. can cause pre-term labour. Basically, any physical activity or prolonged sitting or my jeans digging into my belly causes my entire uterus to contract painfully - for hours. So it's like a contraction. AND I get Braxton Hicks contractions on TOP of this. Yay.
As for the being "term" part, for anyone not familiar with pregnancy issues, a pregnancy is considered to last 37 to 42 weeks, since doctors are stupid and can't quite figure out how long a baby needs to be in there (answer: FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES). So, having said that, a woman is "allowed" to home birth anytime after midnight on the first day of her 37th week of pregnancy, which for me, was Saturday morning. Yippee!! I'm in the clear, no threat of a forced hospital delivery (gak), etc etc. I can officially go into labour at any time now. Preferably before 42 weeks and one day, since at that point they'll be pressing me to be induced (not a good thing).
Today I picked up the birthing tub and all the supplies we'll need for the home birth, so we're all set, on this end. Ben set up the tub in the spare room, so all we'll need to do once labour starts is put in the plastic sheet (to keep it sanitary for next person), and fill it. That's a relief.
We have a ton of onesies now, for 0-3 and 3-6 months size, and a few in sizes bigger than that. We have absolutely no "clothes" for those sizes, other than the sweaters I've made. Not sure how that's gonna work, but I'm sure we'll not have the baby in any clothes for the first little while, since it will be summer, and it's a baby, for jeepers sake. Everything else, we have, thanks to family and friends' shower gifts (thanks everyone!) and purchases we've made. The only item we've yet to buy is the monitor off our registry. We'll likely pick that up later this week.
Ben starts his new job tomorrow, should be interesting. I guess him being laid off the day before he had his appendix removed was a good thing..upward and onward!
As for actual pregnancy news, I've had some signs of pre-labour (trust me, you don't want to know), and have it on authority that I'll be having this baby sometime in the next few weeks (snide laugh inserted here) but I feel it likely won't be that long. I could be wrong. We'll see. Ben wants me to "wait" until the weekend. I'm not sure the kiddo will agree, but I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Sorry to everyone who is awaiting an updated pregnancy pic, but we just keep forgetting. On Wednesday night we're having official professional pregnancy pics taken by Tisha Johnson of Intrigue Photography. I'm not sure what her copyright preferences are, but if I'm allowed, I'll put up one of those as soon as I can. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until Ben and I take more pics.
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