I've started a 'bumps to babies' class, which is pretty much an ante-natal class, so far it's been very interesting, though for the first couple of classes it was me Coyote and another mum there, and then just me and Coyote so it was easy to really focus on what I wanted to talk about. Which was nice because we could really go into things like what Coyote can really do to support me during labor. Which hopefully has made him feel a lot more confident about the birth...though honestly, I think as long as he is there to hold my hand and give me love and reassurance it will be alright.
But the last class we had actually had a lot more mums...and was less helpful in some ways, a lot of it was focusing on healthy eating and the benefits of breast feeding (the midwives started that bit by saying that they weren't going to pressure anyone to make a choice about breast/bottle feeding, and they believed in informed decision making, before going on to massively talk up breast feeding and putting down bottle feeding...me and Coyote thought this was amusing) but all of that kind of thing I know already, I already know I want to breast feed for as long as possible (even if it's only for a couple of months) and I am already trying my hardest with healthy eating...and also...(I kinda hate myself for this bit) but with the smaller class the midwives didn't have to dumb down for me to understand so we could talk about things at a more intelligent level...I mean, they had us doing coloring in for goodness sake.
One interesting thing they did teach us was how to feel where baby is inside me, though I think she just wriggles around and changes position all the time, because a couple of times baby has been in the right position (head down on her side) another time she was lying back to back, and I swear a couple of nights ago she was lying horizontally across my tummy! Though I'm not very good at feeling where she is, Coyote is the one they've been really helping to find her, so he's better at it than me. I'm just hoping that she settles down into the right position before the birth, because that will make life a LOT easier on me!
We're getting closer and closer to being ready for baby to turn up, but there is still so much to do! Which is worrying me. We need the room to be ready for me to move into before we can build the cot, we can't get the mattress and bedding for the cot until we can build and measure it...so if baby turns up early the only place we have for baby to sleep in is the mosses basket (which luckily we do have a mattress and sheets for) and we also badly need to get more storage so we can try to get a really organised space for all of babies/my/Coyote's things...but again, we can't do that until we have the room ready...it's just frustrating. Especially as there isn't a lot I can do to help. What I'm dreading is baby turning up even slightly early and having to finish decorating and move upstairs all while juggling a new baby.
My nose is bugging the hell out of me, for most of pregnancy I've been feeling all bunged up, especially at night when I'm lying down, but recently another wonderful thing has been added, my nose has started bleeding a lot, just a little bit at a time, just enough so that I can tell when I blow my nose, but now my nose isn't just bunged up with snot (yuck!) but with blood clots (eeeeuuuww!)...and this is all normal for pregnancy.
Sleeping is also interesting because of all the acid re-flux I get when I'm lying down (baby is pushing my stomach up so that stomach acid can find it's way easier up my esophagus) thankfully I've been prescribed a pregnant lady friendly ante-acid which is helping a lot.
I am also starting to get stretch marks! Which is disappointing because I've managed to get this far without any, but now I have a couple appearing on my lower stomach, and I know there is nothing I can do about it. Stretch marks are just genetic (no matter what the adverts tell you! if you are destined to have them, they will come!)
hmmm...what else to tell you...I've managed to get back into swimming again, which does seem to be helping me build my stamina and flexibility. though it's frustrating that I used to be able to swim 40 lengths (about a mile) in an hour, and I would feel fine, whereas now I can only swim 20 lengths and am really tired by the end of it! Just moving through the water is just so much slower and more effort and my buoyancy is in all the wrong places! But it makes me really look forward to taking baby swimming (especially as I've got a lovely friend offering to come and help me!).
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