4 Weeks!!

Well One month left! It feels like it would never come but finally it's winding down. I'm not as sick as I used to be. It has now turned into truly just morning sickness, usually about 9 oclock I am feeling well enough to get out of bed and get ready for the day. We have everything we need for the baby and boxes continue to arrive from my mother (she's gone completely insane with this first grandchild).

I had to have my second visit with an OB this week. Even though I am going to a midwife and plan to deliver at a birthing center, by law I am required to see an OB twice during my pregnancy, why I have no idea I can abort my baby and have every right according to the government however choosing the way I deliver there are all kinds of restrictions! All he does is listen to the heartbeat, I mean he does less than my midwife! Oh well that's the way it goes. I believe I now start going to the midwife every week until I give birth. I am trying to talk this child into coming out Oct 27th I am due the 30th and I have to make it until the 26th because after that date Brent gets 4 weeks off instead of 3. So I am aiming for the 27th. My mother comes into town Nov 4th and she is hoping I hold out until then but I told her I am not holding on any longer than I have to! Technically I only have to make it until 3 weeks before my due date. My midwife will deliver me 3 weeks before or up to 2 weeks after so I have a 5 week time period for this child to get motivated to come out.

I am so eager for our baby to be here I can barely stand it! I want to know what the sex is and to be able to hold my baby, so I can't wait and I have a feeling these 4 weeks is going to go by very slowly!!!

6 weeks left!

That's right I am now 34 weeks and have 6 weeks left! Things really haven't changed much, still really sick and have resigned myself to the fact that I probably will be until this child leaves my body. The baby is really active, one of our favorite things to do at night is lay on my back in bed and watch the baby roll around and make waves on my belly like a tiny alien in my body. Brent thought it was pretty freaky at first now he has gotten a little more used to it.

We have been going through our Bradley Method book. It's a form of childbirth like Lamaze only the Bradley Method is aimed towards natural unmedicated childbirth, it also focuses on breathing normally(unlike lamaze that teaches altered breathing) and relaxing your body during contractions so that your uterus can do it's work. The method is really aimed towards the coach putting everything on his shoulders to making sure she relaxes and stays hydrated and that doctors and midwives respect the wishes of the birthing woman. So that the only thing the laboring woman is to worry about it focusing on contractions and relaxing without interruptions. The Bradley method is also very much against medicated births, talking about everything that you put into your body is also transferred to the baby. So if you medicate yourself and numb yourself (epidurals) it has the same affect on the baby so your baby can no longer work with the contractions and work it's way down like it's supposed to. Anyway this is only a small summary of what this book talked about. It has a lot of exercises and relaxation techniques for you to work on before you go into labor. I'm excited and scared at the same time, the book isn't making light of things it is very clear of this being the hardest work you will do so I am nervous about that but also excited to see my baby! so I will have to let you all know how the Bradley Method worked for me.

Brent's work is giving us a baby shower this week so I am excited about that, his work has always been so good to him and he has such sweet people that work there so was very thoughtful of them to give us a shower. Well that is all for now time to get ready for the day! God Bless!