Pregnancy and Birth – Page 4 – a hippie with a minivan

35 weeks…

Just a few pics…

I took part in a bead exchange with other moms due around the same time as me and yesterday I finally got around to stringing them together… I love it…

Some were bought, some came from something special and some were handmade (like the centre bead)… All the beads had a little note attached with the reason why the bead was chosen, and I also added a few beads that I already had…

I also took some new pics yesterday… The belly has definitely popped now and I am feeling very pregnant….

Getting things done…

About 35 weeks now and things are starting to get done…

Last week I got the diapers out and placed them in the bathroom, all ready for the new baby… Seeing the small sized bummis covers and prefolds makes thing seem so much more real… in a few weeks we will have a new baby here, in my arms wearing those diapers!

Two weeks ago I found a new dresser for the boys at the “Recyclo-Centre” (Local donation centre that resells things and provides jobs)… I thought it looked not bad amidst all the clutter of all the other dressers etc, and we were really needing more place for the boys clothes so I bought it for 40$…

When it got to the house last week I realized that I found a great piece of furniture made from solid cherry and made in Canada and is worth a lot more used than I paid. Though I already had a great dresser in my room for my clothes, I decided to trade and use it for myself, which actually turns out well because my old dresser had 9 equal sized drawers while the new one has 6 thin and 3 long which fits all of our needs better. It also means that I now have a mirror in my room which is another nice thing.

The mirror should be in the middle but that would have blocked the window, but I find that putting it to the side worked out great…

So this weekend we switched the dressers and then placed the boys clothes and my own… Placing the boys clothes in their new dresser also liberated the dresser for the baby and we brought that in my room, which fits better than I would have thought it would.

Now to get all the baby clothes out, cleaned (in the washer as I type) and placed in the drawers… again, something that will make it feel so much more real..

My mom also came over on Sunday and gave us a hand in the house. Cleaning the bathroom, dusting and cleaning a few of the walls, the floors etc… It helped us get the upstairs cleaned while we worked more downstairs…

Another big thing we did was to take down the vertical blinds in the living room (which I have always hated!) and put up curtains… I wish I would have done so a long time ago, the blinds were ugly, always looked dirty and didn’t work well… and I already had everything I needed, the rod, the curtains (though I had to fix them to fit), I just needed to do it.. (nesting is good for that).. the curtains transform the space completely and it makes this house feel just a bit more like a home…

My living room now makes me smile a bit more when I see it… It lightens the whole place up…

Slowly but surely things are getting done in preparation… I still have a bit to do but knowing that I now have clothes and diapers and the carseat is not too far out of reach, I feel a lot better now…

Today I also received my new potty bowl… ready to EC… and so much smaller than I though it would be!

My next big (little) detail is to find or buy a new adaptor for the hose to fill up the birthing pool… after I do that I will feel really ready to give birth and welcome the new little one.. it’s all coming together now…

Feeling a little strange…

A few days ago I passed the date that I would have been due if I hadn’t had a miscarriage… though now I am only a few weeks from my present “due date” it still feels strange to think of what could have been especially since my neighbours daughter was due a week or two later than me and has already had her little one…

Those extra 5 weeks feel like almost an extension of this pregnancy in a way… not having much more than heavy spotting, not having any bleeding before I got pregnant again… For most of this pregnancy I was also measuring exactly the amount that followed the earlier due date… just little things that remind me that there was a potential for a life that we missed.

I feel lucky though that I got pregnant right away, and though a may mourn what could have been, soon I will have a baby in my arms and I feel that it will feel a lot better when that happens…

32+ weeks…

My photos from Khéna’s birthday today are uploading and I am heading to bed, so to get my post in for today (only 2 days lefts after this for NaBloPoMo) I will share some pics that Simon took of me today…

It is rare that he picks up the camera without me asking so I was happy to oblige…

simple pic of me…

this is a shot that I have wanted for while…

Me… before I was born…

My computer told me this morning that I am 32 weeks…

Not much has changed since last week for me, but I thought I would share these few pics…

These are me , in my mom.

My mom has always told me that these are X-rays. While I was scanning them and really looking at them I was wondering if they really are. You can’t see much dense tissue like bone, but then when looking at the last two and looking at my head/skull you can see where the teeth would be etc… any insight would be great!

The first here is at 7 1/2 months pregnant. You can’t see much on it except that I was head down.

The other two are a lot more telling. these were taken 4 1/2 hourse before I was born.

My mom had a long labour and I was posterior, as you can see on this first one, my head is down and looking towards my mom’s front. You can see the curve of my back along towards her back and my knees giving her that bulge on the top of her uterus.

They tried to turn me and you can see in this second one that I have turned a bit and I am slightly lower. If you can’t make it out much, look at the bottom and you can see the roundness of my head facing the camera.