I'm officially very round, tired often, and ready to push this baby out. We'll be doing a child birth education class at the beginning of September though, so hopefully it will wait until after then. We are almost set (cloth diapers in the mail, still, but the plan is to use the disposables we received at our baby showers for the first few weeks while I recover and don't have the mobility to do laundry every other day (we don't have a washer or dryer)).
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| 34 weeks |
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| Right before 36 weeks |
Baby keeps kicking, sometimes when I am leaning over and it kicks it actually slightly hurts. I have not developed a waddle yet, but I'm probably getting close. My hips are sore as of late.
Ben is getting ready to go back to school for the semester, reduce his hours at work, and become a daddy! He's most excited about the last thing. We are looking to apply for Medicaid for the child, since we are both under our parent's plans and cannot add a child to those. This gets a little complicated because of the waiting time that often occurs with medicaid. We can't really afford anything else, though.
We have our midwife appointment on Tuesday, and I'm excited for them to tell me that my uterus is huge. I've had normal appointments, normal blood pressure, normal weight gain, and have had an uneventful pregnancy besides the normal aches and pains of a growing uterus (both abdominal, back, and hips), extreme hunger (in the middle of the night), emotional roller coasters, and having trouble sleeping.
Oh, and I got my trial run with a four month old baby boy from babysitting on Thursday--everything except breastfeeding. but swaddling, napping feeding, and two older brothers were the main focus of the day, and I was tired afterward! It's a bit bizarre to hold a baby while another one is kicking you from the inside. Oh and I got the poop blowout. Yay! Four dry heaves later, the diaper was off and all the poop removed from the little squirming (but happily content) body, and a new outfit was on.
We met with our pediatrician that we'll work with as we remain in Harrisonburg and that was a good experience for both Ben and I, and the doctor had much experience and could discuss that with us, and we appreciated it.
So in conclusion, this baby will most likely show up in September, within a week either way of it's due date, and we are excited to meet our little munchkin. :)
And I'm ready to go to bed.
