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| Things have been so complicated lately with this pregnancy. Erratic blood pressure and bad headaches for one. On top of that I have been having prodromal labor symptoms for weeks now and had all but given up hope that she was actually ever going to come out. Sunday I will be induced for pregnancy related complications. Normally they do not induce until you are 2 weeks overdue but they do not think that it would be good for me or for the baby for me to remain pregnant that long. | | |
| Yesterday I had my baby shower. I got a lot of cute things for our little girl. For the most part we are prepared. I still need to get her some more sheets for her cosleeper. This has been a very rough pregnancy requiring a lot of extra rest. I feel bad that I have not done a very good job of keeping in touch with friends, but honestly I have so little functional time free each day and I try to devote that to family as much as I can. Aiden and Rhiannon are at ages where they both need a lot of parental time .. as it is Magnus takes care of more than half of what they need. He does so much with work and school .. taking care of the kids and then taking care of me. | | |
| Right now my husband is in Sweden visiting his family. I could not go because my OB and midwife do not think flying would be a good idea right now. I have had some complications with this pregnancy and delivering on a plane is definitely not in my plans. Childbirth plans however are very rarely exactly the way pregnant mothers plan them. I want to have my midwife do the delivery .. though at this point we do not know if she will even be continuing my prenatal care unless we can get my blood pressure under control. I have never in my life had high blood pressure. Generally it was actually quite low. My first 2 pregnancies were so easy they barely changed my day to day activities, but this one has turned my life upside down. In the end, it will all be worth it though. This is definitely my last pregnancy so I am trying to enjoy some things even more than before. The tiny little kicks are so precious and I realize that in 10 weeks or less I will never feel that again. That isn't very long at all. I have also decided that I want to try and not use formula at all with this baby. The older kids had both breast milk and formula due to the places I worked at the time not having the ability for me to pump milk, but where I work now is much more accommodating. My sister and daughter are planning a baby shower for me on May 5th. I actually never expected a shower because I thought the tradition is to do that for just the first baby. This shower was actually my 10 year olds idea though so that is a part of why I am having one. She is really excited about it and with all that she has gone through the past couple years, I think it is good to keep her mind focused on something positive. Anyway, a few people have asked about my registries so I can paste the links here for those who are far away/overseas. So here are the registry links for those who want them. It's actually the first time I made a baby registry so honestly I don't know what people normally put on them .. I just picked out the stuff we need that I have not yet bought and stuff I thought was cute. http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html/002-1061724-0423247?ie=UTF8&type=baby&id=9FHGLG2KUPG7 http://www.toysrus.com/ControllerServlet?target=viewDetails&operation=authenticate_user®istryNumber=40588157&from=registrySearch I will try and update at least once a week or maybe once a month .. but I promise I will post pics of the kids once the baby is born. Angel | | |
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