Well, we're getting down to the wire here :) Yesterday was my last day of work in the office, it was a little bittersweet! Mostly because it was the last day that Ben and I will both be working downtown - his company is moving to the east coast so he will be "released" from that job in early April. Now this might sound pretty bad, but luckily he has a few other opportunities that will likely work out pretty nicely! I will definitely miss carpooling and meeting for lunch - it has been really fun to both work downtown. The past week, we took walks in the skyway every day over lunch in an attempt to move things along - not sure if it worked, but at least I got some sort of exercise :)
I had a midwife appointment on Wednesday - at first, the nurse said something like "So, you are due February 18th, right?" and I momentarily panicked - but luckily she had just read something wrong, and my due date IS still February 3rd - phew!! The appointment went really well - I had actually lost a little weight (not even a pound, but still it made me happy), so I'm still sitting right about at +30 lbs from pre-pregnancy. My blood pressure is still low. The midwife felt measured my belly, and it had gone down a few cm from last week, which she said is normal as the baby drops - yay! When she felt around, she said she couldn't feel the head floating anymore, so that is another indication that the baby has engaged and dropped. She also asked if I had gotten any sort of size estimation yet, I said no - so she felt the baby for awhile and guessed that she's "maybe 7 lbs" and said she was rounding up because Ben and I are both tall. We'll see how close she is! I hope she is right - 7 lbs sounds a whole lot easier to push out than 10 :) Baby's heartbeat was just fine too. All in all, a great appointment - things are at least moving in the right direction! Next week I go in on my due date, and will have to have an internal exam, so then I'll really find out if I've made any "progress"...
As this week went by, I alternate between feeling really frustrated at the waiting game and totally fine with trusting my body and probably going late. Little things definitely piss me off - such as the way people look at me and some well meaning comments... It's funny, I know exactly how people feel - when I've been around people who are about to have a baby, it is really all you can think about, and everyone wants to know how you're feeling and if anything's "happening" - I KNOW people just care and are excited, but it still annoys me. But yet, for some reason it also annoys me when people say nothing too - so I really can't win I guess :)
I'm still feeling good too - which makes me think even more that I'll be late - I think I probably SHOULD feel more uncomfortable than this. I do get really sore and tired, but some women say they can barely walk or breathe, so I'm definitely lucky!
I had a midwife appointment on Wednesday - at first, the nurse said something like "So, you are due February 18th, right?" and I momentarily panicked - but luckily she had just read something wrong, and my due date IS still February 3rd - phew!! The appointment went really well - I had actually lost a little weight (not even a pound, but still it made me happy), so I'm still sitting right about at +30 lbs from pre-pregnancy. My blood pressure is still low. The midwife felt measured my belly, and it had gone down a few cm from last week, which she said is normal as the baby drops - yay! When she felt around, she said she couldn't feel the head floating anymore, so that is another indication that the baby has engaged and dropped. She also asked if I had gotten any sort of size estimation yet, I said no - so she felt the baby for awhile and guessed that she's "maybe 7 lbs" and said she was rounding up because Ben and I are both tall. We'll see how close she is! I hope she is right - 7 lbs sounds a whole lot easier to push out than 10 :) Baby's heartbeat was just fine too. All in all, a great appointment - things are at least moving in the right direction! Next week I go in on my due date, and will have to have an internal exam, so then I'll really find out if I've made any "progress"...
As this week went by, I alternate between feeling really frustrated at the waiting game and totally fine with trusting my body and probably going late. Little things definitely piss me off - such as the way people look at me and some well meaning comments... It's funny, I know exactly how people feel - when I've been around people who are about to have a baby, it is really all you can think about, and everyone wants to know how you're feeling and if anything's "happening" - I KNOW people just care and are excited, but it still annoys me. But yet, for some reason it also annoys me when people say nothing too - so I really can't win I guess :)
I'm still feeling good too - which makes me think even more that I'll be late - I think I probably SHOULD feel more uncomfortable than this. I do get really sore and tired, but some women say they can barely walk or breathe, so I'm definitely lucky!
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