Reached another milestone this week... I am now officially at "
full-term". We are 37 weeks+1day pregnant. That means that we are able to birth at home from hereon in, and baby's lungs are developed enough to breath on their own. The law in BC says that if the baby is before 37 weeks you are required to go to the hospital, but we've crossed the threshold and are thrilled!
Everything is going well, baby is still head-down (clever baby!) and I suspect it might be a bit too big to be turning around at this point. I'm still carrying full front and centre, like there's a basketball in my belly (and a pump that won't stop making it grow!). Everything measured perfectly at the midwife appointment last week and we are in the final stretch now.
I've been aware of some different sensations that feel like things are getting ready for the next stage, but it doesn't feel like it's time just yet.
Braxton-hicks are increasing, baby still gets
hiccups frequently, and I feel the
need to pee almost all of the time!
We have most things that we need now for both the birth and our new bundle of joy, although we are still looking at sleeping options... haven't quite nailed down how we want to work that in our one-bedroom apartment. We would like to
co-sleep for the first while for sure, but we only have a double-bed (not a lot of wiggle room), so tonight we are going to sleep with the "
Close & Secure sleeper" in our bed and put my teddy bear inside to see how that goes! Hopefully teddy wakes up fully plumped and not squished.
In closing, for other pregnant ladies reading this, one of the best things about my
prenatal yoga class isn't the yoga... it's being in a room full of other pregnant ladies and sharing stories! We are all in different stages, but there are a few of us who are in the final stretch and we always wonder who will deliver first, whether they'll be in class next week or not! Even though we don't know each other well we can share deeply about the experiences we are having with the pregnancy, and that is a great thing. I highly recommend it.
A very exciting time this last month, and I need to not focus on the EDD as the "deadline". I know these things have their own schedule. We are hoping for a full-moon baby though, and that happens to coincide with our EDD at the end of January (
10:17pm PST, January 29th) So, fingers-crossed for that!!
