Turn Baby Turn!
We are getting so close.
We only have a month until the due date. Mom and lots of other family members are telling me they don’t think I will make it till April 5th.
I just want Z to be healthy. My biggest concern right now is making sure she makes her way back to being in a head-down position. She had been head-down the entire time except when we went for our 35-week check she was transverse.
Transverse is uncommon at this late in the game but it can be fixed. Our wonderful midwife gave us some exercises to help encourage our baby to move into the correct position. Most of them are from Spinning Babies, which I had already researched on my own. And if you don't know about them, you should look them up. They are fantastic!
I’ve been sitting on a birthing ball at my computer desk every day since that appointment so even when I am sitting, I am still encouraging the great movement!
Honestly, I am getting pretty tired. Physically mostly. My back is starting to feel the extra weight. My stomach doesn’t feel like it can get any larger but we shall see.
Kenny and I practice the three exercises that our midwife gave us at least three times a week. I try and do what I can every day. He can only help with them when he isn’t working and he has been working a ton over the past few months.
Aside from preparing myself for birth and coming home with our baby, I have decided, alongside the deepening interest in all things natural and DIY, I want to start a garden here. Actually, I wanted it so badly, I’ve convinced Mom and Kenny that we need a garden.
Not just any garden. A vegetable, herb, and fruit garden. We are already well on our way with the seeds we purchased. Last Sunday, Mom, Kenny, & I all went to Heritage Days Festival at Baker Creek in Mansfield. We bought a ton of seeds to get the garden started.
I’m talking watermelons, tomatoes, squash, onion bulbs, lavender, milk thistle, fenugreek, cilantro, thyme, basil, fennel, rosemary, and peanuts.
Kenny sketched the layout of the garden today. We’re really excited about having this garden.
Kenny also had the cutest idea ever. He had been saying for a while that we should get a tree to plant as soon as our baby girl is born, so she can grow with it!. ADORABLE!
We both thought an apple tree would be great and decided that granny smith was the way to go because it was my favorite apple. I kind of wanted to get honey crisp because it was the apple I have enjoyed the most throughout my pregnancy but we sadly couldn’t find any there.
Tomorrow we have our prenatal class finally and our 36-week visit. I pray she is head-down and that if she is she remains that way. We have to go to another ultrasound because of her transverse position on the previous visit and the fact that my scar tissue is making measuring 'how I am measuring' and thus how big our baby is a little more difficult than usual.
So on the 12th, we’ve got an ultrasound. Hopefully our last. But however you look at it, it just means I get to see my girl again before she arrives.
On Saturday, we are having our baby shower. I’m oh so excited to see everyone. One reason, I'm so excited is to see people I haven't got to see in years!
One of those people is my friend Sarah which is awesome in and of itself but I am super excited because she is bringing her twins and I have yet to meet them.
Aside from prepping for the shower, packing my hospital bag, and exercising her into the correct position I mainly spend my days researching natural alternatives to you name it and finding out how things grow best and how to use herbs and oils for everything :P
Something about having another person inside of you suddenly makes you give a crap about the crap you are putting into your body and the crap that you are piling up outside your body in and on the earth.
Who would have thunk it!
But seriously, I am just over the moon right now. Counting down the days. Saying my prayers and hoping for a happy and healthy head-down (fingers crossed) baby girl! And hopefully, I’ll be healthy too.
I’m so in love with how things are going I could almost swear that I am dreaming.
But thank god, I am not! At least I don't think I am.
Cannot wait to meet you ZGH! You already have my heart and I know you have your daddy's too and that just makes me bloom with joy!
