37 week pointed belly
38 weeks, not so pointed...
Wow! It's just over one week now till our due date! This pregnancy has gone by so fast, especially this last month and a half. Winter was long, but when summer finally came around, time has jsut taken off. My mom will be joining us in two weeks. It will be so nice having her here. It's nearly been a year since I have seen her, and will be a year since Jonnie saw her. She hasn't seen our home, nor met our precious kitties, so I am excited to show her around! She has been to Canada 9 years ago, but not up near Durham. So we will have some fun going to Timmy's and seeing around where Jonnie grew up and where we have been living the last year.
As for the pregnancy itself... going great still. I have had to frequent the bathroom more the last week or so, which has not been fun, but shows that birth is nearing. Last Thursday, we had our home visit with our primery midwife, Jane, actually in the middle of the tornado four blocks from our home. The power was out, so we talked over candle light. She was able to discuss with us what would happen if we did have an emergency at home and the stretcher people would need to come, how that would all work out in our home. And also explain the water birth and what would go with that and where would be the best place to have the little pool. It was great to be able to over all that at where we are planning on having him and kind of seeing how it would play out.
Then last Saturday Jonnie and me had the oportunity to go to a prenatal class which lasted from 9AM-4PM. Our butts and backs were quite sore, but we got to meet other pregnant couples and hear their stories and learn a little more about the labour itself. Jane was the one doing the class, so it was good to hang out with her for a few hours, kind of getting to know her a little better just through her sharing about labour and questions. That will have been my forth time to spend with her and Jonnie's thrid, so it is great we are getting to know her before she comes to our home to deliver Elliot. The videos were quite labour grafic, but it was good to see how women cope through the labour in so many different ways, and how the husbands help her to breathe and comfort her.
As for how the pregnancy is moving along... Sunday I got my first cramps, which lasted like ten seconds each, but it's a start. Then I was fine Monday and Tuesday. Then making supper yesturday I got a really long cramp which lasted till I was able to sit down and eat and drink and bottle of water 40 mins later. i started last Friday some little globual pills called caulophyllum that Jane gave me, so I have a feeling that is what is causing these cramps. I still don't know if Elliot has dropped or not, it doesn't look like it, but sometimes it really feels like it!
Other then pregnancy, Jonnie and me are doing fine. He is back into his own ice cream room at the factory, so he is back onto four day weeks 10 1/2 hour shifts. They are long days for him, but it is nice to have an extra day off. He had a problem with his back tooth on the right bottom side a couple of weeks ago. He endured the pain for a week and it wasn't getting better, so he went to the dentist to get it checked out. Ends up he has to get all four wisdom teeth pulled, because he doesn't have enough room for them on his jaw. So that will take place on the 21st of September. He will be sedated, and they said while he was under they would fill his cavities at the same time, so that is great! This would cost so much, but thankfully his job benefits will cover probly the whole thing. Prase the Lord for benefits!!!
I have a few things I have to get done after Elliot is born such as: eyes checked to get contacts and possibly new glasses, many teeth filled, and a chest xray for the governement papers. So his birth doesn't stop things from having to happen. Thankfully benefits will cover all those things for me too (except maybe the xray)! :)
