One Month and Counting!!!
We have reached that point! It is one month from my due date, and on Monday it will be officially four weeks to my due date. It is so hard to explain all the calculations to people who have never gone through it, so just trust me if you don't understand. It would take nine months to explain it!
Even more exciting is that I will be one week from being full term (You are considered full term from 37 to 41 weeks pregnant), so technically the baby could be coming any time after that! I have reached that phase of the pregnancy that every husband dreads, the achy, can't get things on my own, beached whale phase. My back aches constantly now, which I was told was because my back is actually stretching to meet the weight needs of my front half. My ribs actually ache a lot of the time, especially when I first start getting going in the morning. I have lost count on the number of times throughout the day my eyes well up with tears from either the intensity of my aches or the persistence of the internal drumming of my son. I know the last few weeks are the hardest, but it is completely impossible to imagine it until you are in it! It was only a few short weeks ago I thought I might be able to handle being pregnant forever.... oh how times have changed. I guess that is what happens when the little parasite you have been growing inside you finishes the developmental stage and transitions into the growing phase. He is literally tripling his weight from just a couple of weeks ago.
Somehow we have survived this week. Nate and I both got a stomach virus that made the first half of the week rather interesting..... I was more than blessed by the small gift of Nate coming down with it exactly 24-hours before I did. He managed to figure out all the wrong things to do, and I was able to avoid most of the unnecessary pit falls of the illness.
We also survived our weekend Lamaze class. I can no longer pretend I don't know what is about to happen. The class really was great. We learned so much we really needed to learn about the entire labor and delivery process. Nate didn't understand that my choices in delivery were going to be based a lot on what he was able to understand and handle. Basically, if he isn't going to be supportive of X or Y, then why would I put myself through it 'alone'? After the class he understood a lot more about why and when I would really need his help and support and I think we have finally been able to come to some agreements about how we will survive the delivery process. Support is really huge, not just from each other, but from our families as well. It has been hugely important to both of us that our families have both been so supportive and very honest about expectations. It has allowed Nate and I to focus less on them and more on our little one's well-being. And in maintaining our sanity. We are looking forward to the next month!
Even more exciting is that I will be one week from being full term (You are considered full term from 37 to 41 weeks pregnant), so technically the baby could be coming any time after that! I have reached that phase of the pregnancy that every husband dreads, the achy, can't get things on my own, beached whale phase. My back aches constantly now, which I was told was because my back is actually stretching to meet the weight needs of my front half. My ribs actually ache a lot of the time, especially when I first start getting going in the morning. I have lost count on the number of times throughout the day my eyes well up with tears from either the intensity of my aches or the persistence of the internal drumming of my son. I know the last few weeks are the hardest, but it is completely impossible to imagine it until you are in it! It was only a few short weeks ago I thought I might be able to handle being pregnant forever.... oh how times have changed. I guess that is what happens when the little parasite you have been growing inside you finishes the developmental stage and transitions into the growing phase. He is literally tripling his weight from just a couple of weeks ago.
Somehow we have survived this week. Nate and I both got a stomach virus that made the first half of the week rather interesting..... I was more than blessed by the small gift of Nate coming down with it exactly 24-hours before I did. He managed to figure out all the wrong things to do, and I was able to avoid most of the unnecessary pit falls of the illness.
We also survived our weekend Lamaze class. I can no longer pretend I don't know what is about to happen. The class really was great. We learned so much we really needed to learn about the entire labor and delivery process. Nate didn't understand that my choices in delivery were going to be based a lot on what he was able to understand and handle. Basically, if he isn't going to be supportive of X or Y, then why would I put myself through it 'alone'? After the class he understood a lot more about why and when I would really need his help and support and I think we have finally been able to come to some agreements about how we will survive the delivery process. Support is really huge, not just from each other, but from our families as well. It has been hugely important to both of us that our families have both been so supportive and very honest about expectations. It has allowed Nate and I to focus less on them and more on our little one's well-being. And in maintaining our sanity. We are looking forward to the next month!
posted by Lexy Sykes | 10:26 PM
1 Comments:
You are so close! Fun to hear your account of pregnancy...your last few posts have totally predicted where I would end up within a few weeks of reading the post. I will be thinking about you as you draw closer to delivery...what a sigh of relief that you are only a week away from full term! Take care of yourself!
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