Its interesting though you know how they always say 'well you would already be 3cm as you have had a baby or two' when I had a speculum exam with dd3 (4th bubs) I was closed! At 36weeks. So I'm obviously holding my own **there** but boy tummy wise there is nothing holding this belly. It's still small thank goodness, not going to be a pretty 2nd half
Got myself a ticker
DD1s Having a double digits birthday party tomorrow. A disco with 20 girls.... House is clean and tomorrow we convert the garage into a disco. We have hired disco lights and a helium tank to do 50 balloons. Should be a great day. She got earings for her birthday. 10yrs old, so grown up
No news from me. I'm just plodding along. I have found a happy place of waiting. I was discussing the head **** of late pregnancy with a gf the other day and how you constantly second guess yourself! and what that then does to your ability to wait with joy and peace. So anyway a few nights ago I went to bed and decided I really didn't want the end of this pregnancy to be like that. I didn't want to be wondering every second of every day if this was gonna be the moment that labour started. I don't really believe in god. You could call me agnostic if anything, but my Mw gave me a picture of a pea**** for my prayer flag, cos it is a symbol of Juno the roman goddess of women and mothers. So anyway I thought I would write a prayer to Juno, to more than anything else, solidify in my thoughts, what I wanted for myself and my baby in the waiting time that is right now. This is what I wrote, cos this is how I should like it to be.
Dear Juno
Grant me peace in my time of waiting
Grant me joy in the serenity of letting go of expectations
Grant me blessing in enjoying the last precious moments, free from an enquiring mind and able to just soak up each last kick and prod from my baby within.
Grant me joy in my labour
May I find pleasure in my work to bring my baby into the world
Grant me peace and serenity in my time of waiting.........
I don't want to rush my babies last hours inside my womb, give me peace please, mother of mothers......
So that is where my head is at now. I do find the odd impatient though comes thru my mind, but generally I am able to let it go pretty quickly and just find something to enjoy in the moment. Coincidentally, my aunty asked me and my brother and sister to come over and choose some keep sakes from my grandmother who passed away four weeks ago. I found a pea**** necklace amongst her things. Serendipity I think, since only the night before I wrote the prayer. So now I just plod along. Dh has his last shift on Friday, so that is good. Just a few days before I hit 41 weeks. By then I will be ready for lots of support and will appreciate all his help, even if it means he doesn't have quite as much time with his baby.
How are you doing ozstar?
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Def get those pools ready! We had two leaks in ours and it took overnight for them to appear. One was so slow we didn't bother to patch it up (couldn't find it) as I figured labour would be faster than the leak. So I was right about that at least...
Yay! That is super cool ozstar! I had a Mw appointment today too. It was nice and chilled. It is the first one since our first one at the start of this pregnancy that has just been her and me, without our student. And I really like our student, it has been fun to have her along and see her learn and gain confidence. But it was nice to just sit with Rach for the arvo and chill out and gossip and chat. It may well be our last appointment before the baby, so who knows. Can only cross my fingers .
How funny Bella today was one of my first without my lovely student too and I really enjoyed just sitting and chatting. It was extra nice because dh was there too.
Oh ladies it is all getting to the exciting bit. So nice to hear you having a relaxing time with your MWs
I worked in SCN tonight, the babies weren't that unwell and were able to be on the ward with their mummas most of the time. As I am telling more and more people our news it seems a very common theme for people to ask 'why would you have another' well tonight looking at those brand new squishies, I think my ovaries almost popped! Why? Because I am so blessed to have the family I have, the chance to see my kids welcome another sibling, to see my husband melt over another child. I am so lucky 'why wouldn't you?'
I had my Mw appointment on the way to work. Bug is all good. The Mw said that its one of the next two appointments that she comes to the house and we discuss all the birth stuff! That's at 24 or 28 weeks. I put it off to the 28 week appointment, this is all going SO fast.....
Thinking of all the belly mamas and bubbas soon to come. Xx
Tegam - wow, time sure is flying for you! I've had so many ppl ask if we're going for a fourth, which surprised me. Ran into an acquaintance and her DH at a fancy dress party on Sat night and they're expecting a bonus fifth baby in Sept. It's exciting, not disappointing!
Ahh Jen I am a really bad person to talk to about having more xx I say 'of course you will have a fourth' you deserve that calm water birth you missed this time!!
I mentioned to a friend that I think the average number of kids is growing. I think three is so much more normal now then 10 years ago. She disagreed and looked at the censes, average children only 1.7 or 1.9. I'm shocked. I would have thought with Ivf the rate would be much higher.... And boy to I must pick up the average haha I've always known I was above average at something haha
that s lovely, Jen. you must look like you do it well We have only get comments such as 'when is DH getting the snip?', and 'i'm glad you are stopping at 3'.
i think family size depends on your social circle. most of my friends have one or two kids. One has 3, but #2 and #3 were twins.
yes! we need a birth story!! I love reading about eachothers births!
we definitely bucked the trend in our inner city suburb with having a third baby. but in our new town, three seems to be in the norm. and no one bats an eyelid at 4 or 5.
Hot1 come in then lovely! We wanna see your birth story!
I was unable to sleep well last night, and ended up sitting up re-reading the archives of this thread, around the last few months of my last pregnancy. It was lovely to be reminded how so many of us have been in this thread for so long... So many of the names and faces remain unchanged, just extra babies added to the mix.
Yay! Hubby is now on pat leave for a month! Yay for me! I am feeling so exhausted! Trying not to wish this time away, but man! it is a deliberate concentrated effort to stay positive and in the moment right now. Just want this baby to decide to come. He is still really posterior, almost completely direct posterior. I know he will turn in labour tho... Still haven't decided 100% on a name, but I am sure we will get there eventually.
Have a great celebration!
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haha I've always known I was above average at something haha
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