Seriously, this is what life feels like at the moment… everything is standing still awaiting the arrival of the new babe…

I am 40 weeks now, and 2 weeks ago I was having tons of contractions, going for hours on end and then stopping, the baby was placed pretty well and I seriously thought things would starts sooner rather than later… silly, delusional me…

Everything stopped, the baby started flipping from side to side with the head leaning on my right hip. My pelvis has been out of alignment for a long time, the knee problems that I had as a child can attest to that. When I started going to the Chiro about 4-5 years ago I saw quite difference… I also have a tilted Uterus that is always to the right, even when it is fully extended with a full term baby. My first two babies were posterior, stuck on that right hip and I had long and hard labours with them… but after visiting the Chiro last pregnancy and realizing what the problem was, I had a normal and beautiful birth (of course having a UC also made it a lot less stressful, which was a great help also)… anyway, now I am quite aware on position and I am quite obsessed at getting baby in the right position to make things easier for both of us…  So for the last week or so, I have been trying to get baby back into the right place but it wasn’t working…

On Monday I decided to go for my first ever acupuncture appt. I was a bit sceptical but I was quite impressed… though it didn’t help anything along (maybe it would have if baby was in the right position though) she also worked on my lower back pain and that night I slept like I hadn’t slept in weeks and the pain has been reduced by at least half… Yesterday morning the baby was still on that right hip and still flipping, so I did a bit of inversion, on my knees with my butt in the air for a while and then when I felt the back slip towards my front I laid down on my left side until gravity brought the back that way… then I got up and tried to bring the baby down… walking, on the birth ball , sitting straight up and leaning forward etc… and all day the feet were right were they were supposed to be and when I went to the Chiro last night she confirmed that the baby is now back to a great position and the head is pretty much engaged (I can’t palpitate my lower abdomen anymore… so it was good to hear from someone else)… I also started having contractions again, which is annoying but it at least it means that something is happening again…

So, yes… Limbo… besides being obsessed with the babe’s position, things have been just in waiting… it feels like life is just at a standstill… Simon is going to work but doesn’t have much work to do anymore, or is rushing to get what he has to do done so that he can leave at anytime… I haven’t brought the boys out in longer than I wish to think of… they play outside in the yard but I just don’t have the energy to go somewhere with them especially because that would mean driving the car for a while and the last times I have done that have been quite painful for me and it has taken a few days to recover… so we are all going a bit stir crazy here…

Everything is ready for baby, so maintaining housework is all that is left to do… I would like to sew but I have no inspiration at the moment of what to make…

The boys are waiting also… “soon” seems to no longer be specific enough… they want to know when the baby is coming (and Colin instists it will be a girl and tears come to his eyes when we mention that it might be another boy)

We are all just waiting… waiting for labour, waiting for birth, waiting for the unknown, waiting for Simon to be on Parental leave and home with us… just waiting… as I heard someone say… the last few weeks of pregnancy should be considered as a trimester all to itself…

So to keep us all waiting… do you have any predicitions?

When this baby will come? What will it be? weight? height?  please entertain me a bit 🙂