40 weeks & 5 days

40 weeks & 4 days

Another nice cool day today. We got up late & while paul has spent the day fiddling about in his shed and trying to fix the mower. I have watched some of 'love my way' series 3 on dvd & tidied the house. I am feeling like being quiet, slightly withdrawn & a little impatient. I'm just not in the mood for conversation as I just don't have much to say. Think I will go and run myself a nice warm bath and listen to my calm birth cd's before dinner. I feel like beef lasagne, so might go ask paul nicely if he would make it for me tonight.

40 weeks & 3 days

Still waiting..
Paul took these black n white shots of me today, will be a nice keepsake for us, I would have liked to do a belly cast but it was expensive to buy the materials so this is just as good. Paul has a few days off now so we are just enjoying some quiet time together & anxiously awaiting the arrival of this little person. Rented the dvd Noise & paul is cooking us Thai beef sausages, mash & green beans with onion gravy.

40 weeks & 1 day

I am pretty much ready now my labour bag & the babies bag are both ready to go. I think with every new day there is a chance we will have a baby at the end of it. No signs yet though... I guess this little one is not quite ready yet. I just ordered some return address labels for when we send out our birth announcements. It has been so humid today, I am hoping we will get a storm to cool things down. It was threatening to rain earlier just as I had hung the towels on the line so I had to take them off and hang them out undercover but nothing has eventuated out of all the thunder yet. Might give the chocolate muffins another go now we have milk & finish off the Christmas sewing.

Officially overdue

Still here & barely a braxton hicks.
Paul wanted to go to pick n payless to find a spare tyre for the car & my thinking was I am not going to go into labour sitting at home waiting so I joined him for the ride. Kinda funny I think being 40 weeks pregnant walking around the wreckers yard. We found a tyre eventually & went and paid and headed back to the car only to find that we had got the size slightly wrong! I had enough of walking around so decided to wait in the car while paul went back and found the right size & swapped it. The car was pretty hot so I had to sit with the door wide open & feet on the ground to get the breeze & I was starting to get a little antsy & overheated before paul thankfully got back, someone should tell him it's never a good idea to leave a pregnant woman in a car without a cool drink for very long. On the way home we picked up some maccas drive through & I fed paul his chips because his hands were covered in black crap form the wreckers. We didn't expect the trip to take so long & paul had to rush off to work not long after we got home. I am not sleeping well at night now so by 5 I was feeling exhausted and had to have a lie down, think I slept for a few hours, got up had some vegemite toast and watched some telly. I had the sudden urge to bake chocolate muffins at 10pm, but we didn't have any milk so they turned out a bit dry. I cleaned the fridge tonight & new seals are a priority when we get the baby grant, vacuumed the floors & hung out the washing on the line inside. Paul won't be home till after 2 and I'm not tired enough to try to sleep just yet otherwise I'll just toss n turn so I might go read one of my pregnancy books and have a shower. Just ripping some tracks to MP3 format to take to hospital with me, be good to use the headphones to block out any external distractions.

1 day to go

I am sure today & tomorrow will come and go and I will still be pregnant. I can't quite believe I am here at this point and we will be meeting our baby for sure within the next 10 days. I am feeling strong and positive about labour. Paul & I took a trip to Blaxland to pay some bills this morning and then headed to Mash Cafe for a coffee & some coconut bread w lime marscapone - yum. It was so warm today, really humid - the kind of weather that makes you stick to your seat. After coffee we wandered around the local nursery to price out some pots & then headed home. I was glad to get back to our cool house & have a lie down. I had a bit of a restless sleep last night like most nights these days & just couldn't get to sleep. It doesn't help that I need to get up to use the loo a dozen times a night and as soon as I get comfy in bed I feel I need to go again. I didn't want to disturb paul with all my tossing and turning so I took my 4 pillows and went and slept in bubs room. I had to get up and let Rufus in in the wee hours of this morning because he was barking at Cats - they were fighting or something. I was feeling a little mild cramping this morning like period pain I guess, a sign things might really start to happen soon. I'm expecting that because it's my first baby the lead up to labour will be over a few days.

40 weeks

2 days to go

I completely forgot about posting yesterday. I was too busy reorganising our office & baking shortbread. I over did the reorganising and really paid for it as my back was absolute agony last night and I was having heaps of braxton hicks, least I'm pretty sure that's what they were but it seemed to just be a continuous feeling of tightness with the occasional jabbing sensation of my cervix which I have been getting here and there. Paul arrived home in time to help me with the biscuits and we were dipping them in melted white chocolate at 10.30 pm. The result a little messier than I had imagined but being our first batch it was really trial & error and they taste extremely yummy, a little too yummy as I have eaten way too many already and feel a little dehydrated from all that sugary goodness.
I really think that it won't be too much longer now, Its hard to say that as I just don't know but that's what I am hoping. I think there is a little truth in the saying 'a watched pot never boils' so I'm going to spend some time focusing on the after from now on rather than on labour as I feel I have done that enough now & need to find a focus point to get me through the hard work of labour. I had a long chat with my friend Jo this morning, I really value that friendship and the fact I have someone to talk to that I understands what I'm going through.

4 days to go

I got up early this morning & made Paul a coffee before he headed off to work, did my hair & ate some buttery toast while waiting for mum to arrive to take me to my appointment at Nepean. The midwifes today were much nicer and so much more approachable than last week, the took my BP which was the same as last week 130/185 & checked bubs position which kind of was very pinchy cause the midwife had really long nails & was told that bub is not engaged yet! a little disappointing but I'm hoping I'm just one of those people that baby engages and labour will follow shortly after as they say first pregnancy bubs generally engage a few weeks before? So my next appointment is booked for 41 weeks and will be an ultrasound followed by an internal & talking inducement. I really hope I won't be making that appointment & am going to stay optimistic that this baby will get moving before I am looking down that barrel of inductions & internals. I have had some pains here and there over the last few days, more braxton hicks and sometimes I wake up during the night feeling aches which I sometimes wonder whether are real or imagined, Its getting hard to sleep as my hips & lower back ache and Its hard to get comfortable and I get up so many times a night needing to pee. This baby really is most active at night and seems to get the hiccups alot, It is a weird feeling to have hiccups in your belly.

5 days to go

It was so warm and sunny this morning, I got up and made paul a coffee before he headed off to work and hung a load of washing on the line. Then I could hear the low rumbling of thunder & went out to investigate & the sky was so black, then came the rain - big fat droplets followed by more thunder and lightning, it cleared for a while but it's pretty steady again now. I have been doing some sewing today, having a go at making a bib with some of the leftover Japanese mushroom fabric - bias binding really is my undoing! it really drives me nuts & it's so hard to get it looking neat & now I have run out of the thread I need to finish up the Christmas stuff I have been working on so I will have to pick some more up from spotlight tomorrow. Mum will be here about 11 to take me for my appointment at Nepean, hopefully my blood pressure will not be any higher. I have been a bit concerned about pre-eclampsia since yesterday when I had that headache, because that's one of the symptoms they told me to watch out for & I probably should have gone in to get checked out but it was Sunday & the panadol made it go away so I let it go. But I'm ok today, felt a little nauseous earlier on so I have just been taking it easy.

6 days to go

We had paul's family Christmas party on last night and I was feeling fine so I went & I would rather be with paul then to have to call him & tell him I need him to come home being so close now. The food was nice & it was good to meet a few of his cousins I haven't met before. That will be the last trip away from home before bub is born now.
I woke up with a really bad headache this morning so I had a shower some fruit and a big glass of water before going back to bed at around 9 & probably got up again about 12ish and the headache was still bad so I had to resort to taking 2 panadol, I have pretty much avoided taking any drugs at all during this pregnancy so this was a last resort. It made the headache go away but made me feel so tired I had to go have a sleep. I am feeling a bit cranky & resentful at the moment, I am a little anxious about how I will cope during labour & of family not respecting that this is our special time & making comments that they will be at the hospital waiting - Um I don't think so! even though it has been made very clear that we do not want anyone at the hospital that we haven't specifically invited, It is important to me that I am free of time constraints and as we never have this time again I make no apologies for how I feel nor should I. So I have made the decision there is no way we will be telling anyone I am in labour.