39 1/2 weeks, only a few days until the babies due date. We are all getting very excited and anxious to meet our new baby. This pregnancy has gone by very quickly, but being pregnant at 36 is a whole lot different than pregnancy at 26. This little one was a big surprise, and it took a little time to get used to the idea of being pregnant again and adding to our family, we are really looking forward to having a baby again.
I had my usual nausea with the first trimester, felt more tired in the second trimester than with my first two babies and now in the third trimester I am feeling very well. Many of us get Heartburn with pregnancy. Quitting coffee a few months ago cut the heartburn to an occasional discomfort that is tiny fraction of what I was experiencing.
For a couple of weeks now the baby has settled and dropped head down and I can take a full breath again. The kicks and movements are always in the same places now, it has been so long since having Owen 7 years ago I’d forget what it is like to have a little person in there, but it all comes back to you. I am visualizing a healthy and easy birth often now in anticipation for our third home birth. I have reread my favorite birth books Spiritual Midwifery
and Unassisted Childbirth as well. There are so many great birth video clips on the net now too. Ten years ago, when I was pregnant with Liam, is was not easy to get access to so much great information about home birth and water birth.
As with the first two pregnancies; I have not had any ultrasounds, so the sex will be a surprise again. Our boys are anxious to find out if they will have a new brother or a new sister. Liam and Owen were both four days past their due dates when they arrived, so we are expecting our new family member within the next week. We are planning to tape the birth and will post footage to the site soon after.