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Pregnancy week 34
Oct. 14th, 2015 10:23 amThis is the official start of my maternity leave and I totally understand why. The amount of extra hormones combined with the growing discomfort and diminishing mobility turns me into a stay at home person.
I am not a stay at home person from character. I like having options, like going to the library, having tea woth griends or taking a walk. Not having options is stiffling and I am excited waiting for E to come home around 17.30 because I can talk to another human being. After I did the dishes, cooked a meal, cleaned up and sewed some more baby stuff. Yes, traditional roles are back in the game and they probably will be as long as we have a little one running around.
Pregnancy issues, week 34. After I was sort of okay with seeing my belly at week 32, my body is making an effort to make the belly extra big in these last couple of weeks. By now, turning over in bed is almost imposible and I need help getting up from the couch. It's having E's hands to pull me up, or a complicated sequence of rolling to the side, pushing myself up and finding my new balance point.
Getting from sitting to walking means a couple of minutes of feeling like a ninety year old. Aches in my pelvis and joints, with a sort of waddle. Once I get moving it gets better, but walking the dog is limited to max twenty minutes. This is where I figure out that having a dog that needs a lot of exercise is probably not the best combination with a baby, who can't regulate her own body temperature and is born at the end of November. We have a garden where she can run around, but it's still a conuncrum how to solve this. We'll cross this bridge when we get there. Her current walking schedule is twenty minute walks at 9.00, 17.00, 19.00 and 22.00 with a longer midday walk around 12.00 of 60-90 minutes.
By now the baby is so big that she's coming up right underneath my ribcage. She is 't kicking my ribs (yet) but I have increasing heartburn from the stomach acid being kicked out upward. This is also the time of her head positioning lower into my pelvis, something that she is practicing a lot, judging by the bruises of her head bumping the inside edges of my pelvis. Never knew that would happen.
Overall, I still have a pretty easy pregnancy. Not stretchmarks so far, not varicose veins, high blood pressure or hemmerhoids. There's this curious thing happening with time that is slowing down. If I get up, showered and have breakfast, it's suddenly eleven 'o clock. I can spend two hours a day focusinf on something and I need a couple of naps after every form of exercise (see schedule for the dog. Each walk is followed by a thirty minute nap).
I am exited about meeting our girl in 3-8 weeks, and anxious about the delivery. I'm praying that a vaginal birh is in the cards for us, and that there are no complications. I'm hoping the pain is manageable, as I want to deliver at home and there is no pain medication available for at home delivery. On the bright side, since women are more at ease at home, my body is supposed to make a fair amount of pain reducing hormones and at home deliveries are faster and with less medical complications. In the next couple of weeks the midwife keeps a close eye on my for signs of possible complications: if there are indicators I'll go to the hospital instead.
I am not a stay at home person from character. I like having options, like going to the library, having tea woth griends or taking a walk. Not having options is stiffling and I am excited waiting for E to come home around 17.30 because I can talk to another human being. After I did the dishes, cooked a meal, cleaned up and sewed some more baby stuff. Yes, traditional roles are back in the game and they probably will be as long as we have a little one running around.
Pregnancy issues, week 34. After I was sort of okay with seeing my belly at week 32, my body is making an effort to make the belly extra big in these last couple of weeks. By now, turning over in bed is almost imposible and I need help getting up from the couch. It's having E's hands to pull me up, or a complicated sequence of rolling to the side, pushing myself up and finding my new balance point.
Getting from sitting to walking means a couple of minutes of feeling like a ninety year old. Aches in my pelvis and joints, with a sort of waddle. Once I get moving it gets better, but walking the dog is limited to max twenty minutes. This is where I figure out that having a dog that needs a lot of exercise is probably not the best combination with a baby, who can't regulate her own body temperature and is born at the end of November. We have a garden where she can run around, but it's still a conuncrum how to solve this. We'll cross this bridge when we get there. Her current walking schedule is twenty minute walks at 9.00, 17.00, 19.00 and 22.00 with a longer midday walk around 12.00 of 60-90 minutes.
By now the baby is so big that she's coming up right underneath my ribcage. She is 't kicking my ribs (yet) but I have increasing heartburn from the stomach acid being kicked out upward. This is also the time of her head positioning lower into my pelvis, something that she is practicing a lot, judging by the bruises of her head bumping the inside edges of my pelvis. Never knew that would happen.
Overall, I still have a pretty easy pregnancy. Not stretchmarks so far, not varicose veins, high blood pressure or hemmerhoids. There's this curious thing happening with time that is slowing down. If I get up, showered and have breakfast, it's suddenly eleven 'o clock. I can spend two hours a day focusinf on something and I need a couple of naps after every form of exercise (see schedule for the dog. Each walk is followed by a thirty minute nap).
I am exited about meeting our girl in 3-8 weeks, and anxious about the delivery. I'm praying that a vaginal birh is in the cards for us, and that there are no complications. I'm hoping the pain is manageable, as I want to deliver at home and there is no pain medication available for at home delivery. On the bright side, since women are more at ease at home, my body is supposed to make a fair amount of pain reducing hormones and at home deliveries are faster and with less medical complications. In the next couple of weeks the midwife keeps a close eye on my for signs of possible complications: if there are indicators I'll go to the hospital instead.
