Secret Mothers Club

And I can officially say that I am having a baby this month. Actually, if I went 2 weeks overdue then I’d have a June baby, but we’re thinking positive right?

I have felt really blah the last two days. Just crappy and tired and not really myself I can’t remember if I was like this leading up to the birth or my other kids, or was I one of those that feel absolutely wonderful before going into labour? Argh!

Hopefully something happens soon, feeling very homesick and want to be home with hubby and the boys.

I got told off by my midwife this morning because I promised to blog lots and I haven’t!! Oops! Hehe. I had every intention too, but having the two toddlers at the in laws house has had me run off my feet – trying to keep them from getting into everything – especially my darling little 16 month old who thinks 5am is a great time to wake up and start the day. The hubby came yesterday with the older boys and have taken Jye back home with them so that I can catch up on some much needed sleep. It didn’t help that Jye caught a cold either(my guess is that he got it from the play centre we went to last week, he’s not usually exposed to places like that simply because there are NO places like that at home).

So now it’s just me and the big toddler – which means more time for mummy to sit down. I’ve missed the blogs I usually read and I have so much to catch up on!

You may have guessed that I haven’t had the baby yet, otherwise it would have been the first thing I’d have written about. I don’t think she is far away actually(and it would be pretty ironic if she comes tonight after hubby has just left and he’ll have to turn around and drive 4 hours back!!). I’ve had lots and lots of niggles the last few days. Yesterday they were particularly painful – to the point where I was stomping around in the backyard because I couldn’t stay still. I still couldn’t work out if they were real contractions or not though, you’d think I’d have it figured out after 4 babies already.

37 Weeks

I had a follow up at the hospital yesterday, they had referred me for the glucose tolerance test when I was 32 weeks. I never got the test done so I was expecting to get in trouble when I went in yesterday. Seems the OB had expected that I wouldn’t get the test done and she didn’t say much about it.  Instead she wants my midwife to do a stretch and sweep(where the  cervix is stretched and your midwife or OB will sweep the membranes around the baby) because she thinks my baby is big – not surprising as all my babies have been big – and I need to birth this baby sooner rather than later.

Well my first thoughts were that I wasn’t going to even bother with a stretch and sweep.  I had two done when I was pregnant with Jye and that was when I was overdue. It STILL didn’t make me go into labour. I’m not even 38 weeks yet and I don’t see the point of having it done purely on the basis that my baby feels big. Sheesh, I suppose I’m lucky she didn’t whip out the ultrasound machine to show me how big this baby is(because we all know how accurate that is!).

My midwife is happy to leave things be, which is great. If I had gone with having the baby at a hospital, they’d probably go ahead and induce me right now.

Anyway, I am still niggling away so I might go do something and see if they pick up at all. I’m still feeling really good besides almost 2 weeks of not much sleep. I’m not even that uncomfortable yet! To think that I was dreading getting to this stage of pregnancy – I’ve never really enjoyed pregnancy until this time and it’s my last one!!

I am now in Perth, have been since Saturday but haven’t had a chance to blog – the in laws have used their internet quota for the month and have dropped back to dial up speed, so it’s real slow loading things at the moment.

It feels surreal to be here because we’ve talked about it for so long and now here I am. Patiently(ok, maybe not so patiently) waiting for the baby girl to arrive. I am feeling ok – no anxiety about labour and birth or anything like that – but man two toddlers are wearing me out! Especially being in someone else’s house I feel like I’m constantly up and down every 2 minutes to chase them away from getting into things they shouldn’t be!! Plus I’m not use to getting up at 6am any more because hubby usually gets up with the kids. I want to sleep!!! The toddlers have been pretty good though, they haven’t woken during the night for the past 2 nights – it’s just a pity that I have to get up and pee nearly every hour at the moment!

Baby wise – she is going great Still engaged 3/5th above brim and I think she still pops out from time to time.  My midwife said she is sitting quite low and is posterior(her back is against my back) – I don’t blame her with these toddler boys climbing all over her all the time.

Now we just wait. I have been having some mean braxton hicks, they came in the afternoon yesterday until about 10pm last night – usually I’ve just been getting them at night. Boy was my belly feeling sore when I went to bed last night.

Apparently we’ll be back to broadband speed in the next couple of days, I have lots of photos to upload onto here. I have no idea how anyone managed on dial up, I can’t even read some of my favourite blogs because they just take forever to upload!

Tomorrow is the day! I’m going back to the city to live until the baby arrives. I think I have everything I need – no doubt I’ll realise all the things I’ve forgotten once I’m there.

Feeling a bit anxious too because my two toddler boys are a bit of a handful at the moment and I won’t have hubby around to help. I’m not looking forward to the lack of sleep I can tell you! Jye has not been sleeping well at all the last few nights and we discovered he is teething. Not just one tooth though – try 3 molars! So it’s not surprising that he’s waking and crying all night but it’s extremely draining – I won’t have anyone to tag team with when I leave.

I’ve finally let myself thing about the birth as well, playing out different scenarios in my head of going into labour before hubby is in the city and what our plan of action is. I still can’t believe how soon it is. I’ll never believe it I don’t think, not until I’m holding my gorgeous pink bundle in my arms.

At least I can stop rushing around and take some time out from working up here. I’ve been having lots of strong braxton hicks contractions and it makes me think that my body is telling me to slow down.

Not long now…and plenty of blogging time over the next few weeks!

I’m so tired. Last night was probably the worst nights sleep I’ve had since Jye was a newborn. I had trouble actually getting to sleep, between Jye waking and crying and needing to go to the toilet I didn’t get much at all.

Today I was meant to be driving to the city to see my midwife, but on a whim yesterday I decided to leave then. Don’t ask me why I felt the need to go. It wasn’t until I got to my in laws house and found a letter that arrived from the hospital telling me that I had an appointment this morning that I was grateful for whatever it was that made me leave.

I bundled Jye up in the car this morning and it took me 90 minutes to get to the hospital and then finding parking…ugh! What a nightmare. I actually got seen in record time though – I was out an hour and 10 minutes after my appointment time – I’ve had to wait 2 hours before. This appointment went better than the appointment at the last hospital, but they still went on at me about my declining the Glucose Test. Apparently it’s not normal to birth big babies without having gestational diabetes. Anyway, it was a whole lot of waiting around for about 10 minutes with the OB.

Oh, and some lovely person(not) slipped Jye some chocolate in the waiting room! I grabbed him because my name got called to find him with two squares of chocolate in his mouth. I can bet it was the elderly woman with a pregnant woman who was sitting nearby and kept smiling and talking to him. Sheesh, was it too hard to ask me if it was ok? And by the smell of it, it was rum and raisin flavoured He made a huge mess in the OB office.

My midwife came to visit in the afternoon, I love meeting with her. it’s just so much more relaxing and my blood pressure came down significantly in the few hours since I was at the hospital. Baby girl is measuring bang on for 32 weeks, she is also starting to engage – 3/5ths above the brim, let’s just hope she doesn’t go too far down too soon. Jye was at plus 1 station for weeks and weeks and it was painful! Good to know she knows where she needs to be to make her exit though

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I went to visit my mum this afternoon, she’s gearing up to make the move back to Thailand. We’re getting her fridge and we’re going to buy her lounge suite and a double bed from her. Then she hands me her sewing machine! Hurrah!! I’ve been wanting one for a while and now I’ve been looking at all these gorgeous creations on other peoples blogs – well now I can get creative too!

It’s moments like this when I am so glad that we’re living at the pub. It’s now almost 5am and after a really bad nights sleep, I am wide awake. It’s quite common during pregnancy to have issues with sleeping, mostly because it get quite uncomfortable in bed – though I have to say that buying a body pillow was the best thing I ever did as it’s made things much more comfy! I’ve had a bit of an achy belly all day yesterday and I put it down to baby growing, all of a sudden she has wedged herself under my ribs. She has been quieter than normal too, not as many big kicks and rolls – more squirmy, trying to get comfy now that she’s head down type movements. Anyway, I ended up just feeling really kind of sick, so maybe it was something I ate? Blah. Maybe she is feeling off too?

So whilst I’m sitting in bed typing away and facebooking, my hubby is fast asleep beside me. He’ll be up in an hour or so, once the babies wake up and get them showered and feed them breakfast and get the older boys off to school. And where will I be? Fast asleep until my bladder is ready to burst and then I’ll jump out of bed and run down our long hallway to the toilet(oh how I miss having an en suite!). He is such a good hubby! Some days I’ll send him a text to say that I’m awake and he’ll come in and give me cuddles, usually joined by a couple of little toddlers. Got to love those!

No wonder I am finding this pregnancy so easy to the last few. I’m spoilt! But I’m really happy that I’m almost 31 weeks and am going pretty well. It’s pretty alarming how fast it’s going though and I’m running out of time to get things done. I think I spend most of last night getting the business books up to date. That’s probably why I didn’t sleep well, too many numbers floating around in my head – I really, really hate maths. There’s not much time to think about being pregnant I suppose, there is too much to do business-wise, cleaning, chasing toddlers and breaking up their little fights, carting older kids to swimming carnivals and the like. It’s only when I stop and feel the kicks and wriggles, or bend over to pick up the kids toys only to realise that I can’t actually bend over that far anymore and I think ‘Oh yeah, I’m pregnant’.

Well, the sun is starting to rise now and I really should try and go back to sleep so I can get up at a decent hour. The kids will be awake soon, no doubt about that.

Before I go, here’s to a happy 15 months to my baby boy Jye. 15 months ago, my labour was just beginning and we journeyed to a beautiful home water birth. Now, he’s my little toddler boy – getting into mischief and learning to run. My sweet baby boy.