Yesterday's baby shower was awesome. It was a beautiful day and I was surrounded by beautiful people and a blooming desert. I love our Life Learners group so much.
I love being around unschooling families in general. It makes me so sad that we aren't going to be able to go to the unschooling conference in San Diego in September, threatening emails from Miranda's children notwithstanding. It almost makes me want to do something foolish just to make it happen. How about faking my own death for the insurance money? Sadly, that won't work, as I don't have any life insurance. Hmmmm. Pat does, though.
Anyway! Moving on. Still no baby. It's probably stupid to be so very expectant just because the shower is over and I wanted the baby to stay in at least that long. There's still a week and a couple of days til I've reached 40 weeks and for my past two pregnancies I've gotten at least that far.
Now I'll have to go take care of my usual problem. I'm starving, but hate all food.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Fidgety
Just a little update post to say that there's nothing to say. Because if it's not "Here's baby!" what's the point, anyway?
I have contractions every day, but no pattern, they don't get stronger, and still no bloody show (which has always been the first sign for me that baby will be making it's arrival within, oh 10-12 hours). Today, most of my contractions came while I was laying down. Which sucked, because I really wanted to lay down. Okay, truthfully, it didn't stop me at all. I'll take laying down with an occasional contraction anyday over walking around. That walking around stuff is brutal.
The baby has hiccups right now. Hic, hic, hic.
So. Very. Ready.
Still, I'd like to make it through tomorrow at least because the mamas in Life Learners are having a little shower for me during park day. At Red Rock! Should I have the baby at Red Rock?! I could bring old blankets and towels and stuff, it would be so primal. Okay, probably not. After that though, the light is green.
Tomorrow I will be as far along as I was when Saren was born. No trampoline this time.
I have contractions every day, but no pattern, they don't get stronger, and still no bloody show (which has always been the first sign for me that baby will be making it's arrival within, oh 10-12 hours). Today, most of my contractions came while I was laying down. Which sucked, because I really wanted to lay down. Okay, truthfully, it didn't stop me at all. I'll take laying down with an occasional contraction anyday over walking around. That walking around stuff is brutal.
The baby has hiccups right now. Hic, hic, hic.
So. Very. Ready.
Still, I'd like to make it through tomorrow at least because the mamas in Life Learners are having a little shower for me during park day. At Red Rock! Should I have the baby at Red Rock?! I could bring old blankets and towels and stuff, it would be so primal. Okay, probably not. After that though, the light is green.
Tomorrow I will be as far along as I was when Saren was born. No trampoline this time.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Day by Day
It's getting closer and closer, but when will it happen? It's such a mystery! Who's in there? When will we get to meet you? Two more days and we'll be at 38 weeks. The days are just dragging by and there haven't been any sort of signs of anything happening for a long time. I'm almost finding it irritating to not be having any middle of the night contractions, which is probably weird. Lots of braxton-hicks, but nothing with any bite. Bring it on! I should be careful what I wish for.
I've been wanting to write about Irina and her adventures in literacy for a while now. It's like she's had this huge burst of development where letters and the alphabet and writing/deciphering are concerned. It started with her wanting me to "draw" the alphabet for her. She would repeatedly bring her notebook to me and ask me to write all the letters of the alphabet and then she would take her pen and trace over everything I had written. A few times she wrote the letters herself underneath the ones I had written. Nowadays when she has a pen or pencil and a piece of paper to write on, I find lots of letters that she has written on her own. She seems to favor R's, P's, B's, and L's, but other letters show up too. (On a side note, she's also been making representational people for a while now as well. Big heads with stick legs and arms, giant eyes and all. I love those pictures.) And the other night while I was reading to myself before bed and she was reading to herself, I noticed that she was pointing to each letter on a page that had big, bold, upper case letters and she was saying each one. Getting most of them right too.
So that's where she is and I find it so fun to watch this beginning part of her reading/writing journey.
I've been wanting to write about Irina and her adventures in literacy for a while now. It's like she's had this huge burst of development where letters and the alphabet and writing/deciphering are concerned. It started with her wanting me to "draw" the alphabet for her. She would repeatedly bring her notebook to me and ask me to write all the letters of the alphabet and then she would take her pen and trace over everything I had written. A few times she wrote the letters herself underneath the ones I had written. Nowadays when she has a pen or pencil and a piece of paper to write on, I find lots of letters that she has written on her own. She seems to favor R's, P's, B's, and L's, but other letters show up too. (On a side note, she's also been making representational people for a while now as well. Big heads with stick legs and arms, giant eyes and all. I love those pictures.) And the other night while I was reading to myself before bed and she was reading to herself, I noticed that she was pointing to each letter on a page that had big, bold, upper case letters and she was saying each one. Getting most of them right too.
So that's where she is and I find it so fun to watch this beginning part of her reading/writing journey.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wistful
I've had a couple of days without any really uncomfortable or lasting contractions and so I've been a lot less grumpy. Yesterday I even managed to clean out the fridge, which I've been meaning to do forever. I still feel like I've got a ton to do before the baby comes, but that's okay. I know I can let some stuff slide and I plan on making good use of this weekend.
Today as I was sitting down in the shower letting the hot water run over my belly, I realized just how close I really am and I could just feel the end of it all looming so near. It's completely feasible that I could have this baby in as little as two weeks. And I was thinking about how, well, that's it. I've made a choice to not have any more babies, so I know these last couple of weeks are the last time my body will feel this way. Yes, I'm uncomfortable and miserable, but I'm also powerful and awesome. Every time I feel that baby squirming around inside me I know that I will not feel it again after the baby has exited my womb. This is truly the end of not only this pregnancy, but of this stage of my life. My childbearing years. For some reason today, I'm really feeling a sense of a chapter of my life coming to a close. It's making me a little weepy. I am pregnant though, so that's not surprising.
I think I'll try a little harder to cut back on the complaining and just appreciate this time for the awe-inspiring experience it really is.
Today as I was sitting down in the shower letting the hot water run over my belly, I realized just how close I really am and I could just feel the end of it all looming so near. It's completely feasible that I could have this baby in as little as two weeks. And I was thinking about how, well, that's it. I've made a choice to not have any more babies, so I know these last couple of weeks are the last time my body will feel this way. Yes, I'm uncomfortable and miserable, but I'm also powerful and awesome. Every time I feel that baby squirming around inside me I know that I will not feel it again after the baby has exited my womb. This is truly the end of not only this pregnancy, but of this stage of my life. My childbearing years. For some reason today, I'm really feeling a sense of a chapter of my life coming to a close. It's making me a little weepy. I am pregnant though, so that's not surprising.
I think I'll try a little harder to cut back on the complaining and just appreciate this time for the awe-inspiring experience it really is.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Grrrr.
I haven't blogged in a while, so I may as well right now.
I'm feeling kind of limbo-ish and grumpy at the moment. I woke up at 3 this morning with contractions and they stuck around, sometimes regular, sometimes just a general non-stop pain in my abdomen, until about a half an hour ago. And I'm so, so tired and uncomfortable and walking sucks and moving around sucks and I'm ready to be done now, but really I need to make it to Saturday at the very least, and really *really* I know I'm pretty unlikely to *not* go all the way to 40 weeks, but who knows.
And the computer is thisclose to dying an untimely death and it makes me want to just go ahead and buy a new one because *goingwithoutinternetisscary*, even though that would be *very unwise*, financially speaking, even if we get the cheapest desktop we can, and wouldn't that be stupid all on it's own, to get the cheapest desktop we can (and by that, I mean, the cheapest desktop there is) because then we will have a ....well, a cheap desktop?
Anyway, here's a fun game for you, in case I never get back to the internets. If you don't hear from me within one month, send help. This game is called, When Will We Have Our Baby? Here is some information to help you with your guess.
Firstly, the due date is May 9th. This due date has been calculated by me with help from the internet (useful little bugger, isn't it?), by knowing the approximate date of conception. Even though at the time I was not keeping track of anything with my own body and ovulation and whatnot, I'm still about 90-95% certain that this date is correct because of various little clues such as how dark the line was when I took my pregnancy test, at what point I hit various milestones, etc. If anything, it would be off by just a few days, being too early (meaning, I know when the deed was done, but I *could* have ovulated a few days afterward, still, I think May 9th is pretty dead on).
Secondly, Saren was born 10 days before my due date, Harper was born 2 days after, and Irina was born 2 days after. The day before Saren was born I jumped on a trampoline (not, like, really hard or anything!). I'm pretty sure Saren was meant to be born on the day she was born, as the date and time are exactly the same as the date and time my sister (who died at about 2 weeks old) was born, two years before me. We had agreed to give Saren her middle name (that of my sister) a few months before she was born.
All my children have been born either at the beginning of a month or in the middle. Saren's b-day is on the 15th, Harper's on the 2nd, and Irina's is on the 1st. I would tell you the days that they were born on, but I can't remember, and apparently I can no longer use google because my fricking computer has picked up some stupid program.... aaarrgh. Well, if you'd like to figure it out, Saren's was 8/15/97, Harper's was 7/2/00, and Irina's was 2/1/05 (that was a Tuesday, I can figure that one out from my archives).
ETA: Saren was born on a Friday, Harper was born on a Sunday (so was I!)
There is a full moon on May 9th.
Okay, bye.
I'm feeling kind of limbo-ish and grumpy at the moment. I woke up at 3 this morning with contractions and they stuck around, sometimes regular, sometimes just a general non-stop pain in my abdomen, until about a half an hour ago. And I'm so, so tired and uncomfortable and walking sucks and moving around sucks and I'm ready to be done now, but really I need to make it to Saturday at the very least, and really *really* I know I'm pretty unlikely to *not* go all the way to 40 weeks, but who knows.
And the computer is thisclose to dying an untimely death and it makes me want to just go ahead and buy a new one because *goingwithoutinternetisscary*, even though that would be *very unwise*, financially speaking, even if we get the cheapest desktop we can, and wouldn't that be stupid all on it's own, to get the cheapest desktop we can (and by that, I mean, the cheapest desktop there is) because then we will have a ....well, a cheap desktop?
Anyway, here's a fun game for you, in case I never get back to the internets. If you don't hear from me within one month, send help. This game is called, When Will We Have Our Baby? Here is some information to help you with your guess.
Firstly, the due date is May 9th. This due date has been calculated by me with help from the internet (useful little bugger, isn't it?), by knowing the approximate date of conception. Even though at the time I was not keeping track of anything with my own body and ovulation and whatnot, I'm still about 90-95% certain that this date is correct because of various little clues such as how dark the line was when I took my pregnancy test, at what point I hit various milestones, etc. If anything, it would be off by just a few days, being too early (meaning, I know when the deed was done, but I *could* have ovulated a few days afterward, still, I think May 9th is pretty dead on).
Secondly, Saren was born 10 days before my due date, Harper was born 2 days after, and Irina was born 2 days after. The day before Saren was born I jumped on a trampoline (not, like, really hard or anything!). I'm pretty sure Saren was meant to be born on the day she was born, as the date and time are exactly the same as the date and time my sister (who died at about 2 weeks old) was born, two years before me. We had agreed to give Saren her middle name (that of my sister) a few months before she was born.
All my children have been born either at the beginning of a month or in the middle. Saren's b-day is on the 15th, Harper's on the 2nd, and Irina's is on the 1st. I would tell you the days that they were born on, but I can't remember, and apparently I can no longer use google because my fricking computer has picked up some stupid program.... aaarrgh. Well, if you'd like to figure it out, Saren's was 8/15/97, Harper's was 7/2/00, and Irina's was 2/1/05 (that was a Tuesday, I can figure that one out from my archives).
ETA: Saren was born on a Friday, Harper was born on a Sunday (so was I!)
There is a full moon on May 9th.
Okay, bye.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Oops.
I started posting belly pics when I was 19ish weeks along. Then my next belly pic was at 22 weeks, so I just figured I would take and post a belly pic every 3 weeks. That was supposed to make it all even and I would end up with one at 40 weeks, if I got to 40 weeks. I was supposed to post one last Saturday at 34 weeks, but it completely slipped my mind until just today. I guess I'll have to mess up my pattern and post it this Saturday at 35 weeks.
The novelty of the baby's head being engaged wore off by about the next day. There's a reason women say it's like walking around with a bowling ball in your pelvis. Then a few nights ago, I woke up to some more contractions. They were definitely stronger than menstrual cramps and were not really sleep-through-able. I got up and tried drinking water and pacing the kitchen to make them go away. And they did, except for a general achy feeling, until I lay down again. They probably lasted about 3 hours or so. I was worried I was going to have to deal with the same thing every night, but so far it's just been that night and another night a few weeks before that. No other signs of impending baby, so that's good. I can deal with a bit of prodromal labor every now and then, but I want this baby to stay put until at least April 18 (37 weeks). I don't think it's going to be an issue. It's similar to the pattern that I got with Irina.
I still can't believe that I'm only 2 weeks and 2 days from being full term.
The novelty of the baby's head being engaged wore off by about the next day. There's a reason women say it's like walking around with a bowling ball in your pelvis. Then a few nights ago, I woke up to some more contractions. They were definitely stronger than menstrual cramps and were not really sleep-through-able. I got up and tried drinking water and pacing the kitchen to make them go away. And they did, except for a general achy feeling, until I lay down again. They probably lasted about 3 hours or so. I was worried I was going to have to deal with the same thing every night, but so far it's just been that night and another night a few weeks before that. No other signs of impending baby, so that's good. I can deal with a bit of prodromal labor every now and then, but I want this baby to stay put until at least April 18 (37 weeks). I don't think it's going to be an issue. It's similar to the pattern that I got with Irina.
I still can't believe that I'm only 2 weeks and 2 days from being full term.
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