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May 21 31 weeks...Don't panic if you feel your baby moving less frequently now. I honestly don’t think I would panic, in fact I might actually be a little more comfortable. He's got less room to move in your uterus and can't do the back-flips and somersaults you're both used to. Which is good, this foot in the rib cage after I eat really sucks!! As long as you can feel him squirming from time to time, he's fine. Oh I figured as much. By this stage, most babies have turned head down into the "cephalic" position ready for birth. Mine not so much, he is on an angle, but apparently making his way there according to the Dr. A few take a little longer and a few remain stubbornly upright in the "breech" position. Yes, knowing my luck that will be me. He will probably turn himself back around the wrong way. If your baby is breech, there's still time for her to turn. Maybe I could make him turn by poking at him?
Your baby's arms, legs and body continue to fill out -- and they are finally proportional in size to her head. Good no big head baby! He weighs about 3.3 pounds/1.5 kilograms and looks more like a newborn. Whoot whoot!! He measures about 16 inches/ 41 centimetres from crown to toe. Not mine, I swear he is 30lbs and 30”. Your baby's organs are continuing to mature and he is passing water from her bladder: good practice for the urinating she'll do after she's born. Still my baby is a pee drinker! Soon you can wonder what your baby is wishing for -- brain scans have shown that fetuses have periods of dream sleep around month eight. Hopefully he is dreaming about becoming a motorcycle or a car racer! You've probably gained three to four pounds / 1.3 to 1.8 kilograms this month. Actually no, the Dr told me that in the last 3 weeks I have gained nothing. Weird cause I eat ALL the time now. Gaining one-pound/450 grams a week is quite normal during the last trimester as your baby has a final growth spurt before birth. Guess we will see how normal I am…cause we all know that is questionable on a good day?! May 20 Car shopping...Life got a little crazy last week as you could see with my last blog. I thought that I would wait until I had some time to myself to sit down and catch up on what has been going on. I would have done that sooner but Kenny has had quite a few days off and it has just been so great the two of us being able to do nothing together if we want too.
Mom I am sure is still good, as she has called once since we left her up north (on Sunday) and spoke with my brother. She said that she was having a great time with her long weekend guests and that she as feeling good except for some stiffness. I imagine by now her bruises are a wonderful blackish-purple colour. She said that she is looking forward to a few days just to herself up there. Sometimes I wish that she had a phone up there just so she could let us know she was ok without having to drive around the lake. I know that wrecks the fact that you are away from the world and unavailable to its demands, something that the cottage has always provided for me was silence from the constant ringing of my cell phone. In fact I lose my service way before most people, about an hour and a half before I get there my phone becomes silent.
A scary thing when I think about last Tuesday is that there was no cell service where my mother wrecked her car. After a construction worker who happened to be working down the road notified the police, it took them 40 minutes just to get to the scene. He said that he heard most of the crash but watched the car land and has no idea how my mother is alive. My mother was also lucky enough to have a volunteer firefighter and a traveling registered nurse stop at the scene not more than 5 minutes after the fact. The firefighter helped her out of the car safely and the nurse had all of her stuff with her so she made sure moms vitals were good. What I wouldn’t do to be able to thank these people for what they did!! Not to mention how she ended up in a little 2-foot ditch to slide into and not the huge 30-foot ravines that run along most of the roads up there I will never know. Really when you think about it what are the chances of it all turning out so perfectly? So she now wants another car same as the one she had, which is funny cause in the beginning she didn’t care for it so much. I guess when it holds up so well when you roll a few times you opinion of it changes and you start to like it more. So later this week I will be out and about doing come car shopping, looking to see if I can find her a replacement. Her only request is that it not be the same colour! As for today I am going to finish cleaning the house before my Dr appointment. This is the one that I was supposed to have last Tuesday but called and cancelled cause I headed up north to make sure mom was ok. I imagine that I will get my referral to my OB today and then someone new can fondle my body for the next few weeks. I have already started drinking my water so I can be sure to pee in the cup for them. Now if I can only do it this time without peeing on my hand!! Ha ha ha!! May 16 Mom's off road adventure...So I did disappear for a few days and I am happy to report nothing was wrong with Chuck and I, we are fine. I just wanted to let you know that we are ok. However my mother was in a bit of an accident. She is ok, thank goodness. All I can say is that if you own a Vibe or Matrix you have a hell of a good car when it comes to rolling it a few times.
Yes and she basically walked away from this very sore and with some cuts and bruises.
Someone or thing was watching over her...as you can see!
I will have more later when I get things under control here! May 12 Mothers Day....Yesterday was a weird sort of day for me emotionally. Everyone kept wishing me a happy mothers day. It felt weird. Like I was being praised for a job that I have not felt that I have started yet. Like I had lied to join a club that I should not belong too. I understand that mothers are many different people, but yet I do not feel as though I am one at this point.
We went out and made my mom breakfast, all of us kids, and grandkids. I’m pretty sure that we made enough food for about 10 more people than we had there, but it was great to spend the time together. I got her a Margarita set so that she could sit out on her patio and relax with her friends. Which is what she needs right now. She surprised me with an outfit for Chuck and a scrapbook and that she had made for me in the first few years of my life. I wanted to cry but there was something just so calming about my mother giving me that book, like she was telling me that everything was going to be ok.
We then had supper with Jo and brought over her huge crock-pot that she has been longing for. She said that she wanted a big one so we got her a 18-liter. I don’t think they get much bigger. I decided that I had cooked enough for the day and recommended to Kenny that we should think about possibly ordered out some Chinese. It was an hour and a half wait but it was delish! It’s funny that I don’t get heartburn from Chinese; in fact I think that Chuck really likes it. Weird eh?
I was talking to a friend about how I felt about yesterday while writing this entry. She is the mother of a child who lived for only a few days, and she asked me if I thought of her as a mother. Of course she was a mother in my eyes and will always me the mother to that precious angel. I see the point that she was trying to make.
As she (and even my husband tried to point out to me several times) I really should have looked at yesterday a lot differently. I have been a mother for a few months now, making sure that Chuck is safe and getting everything he needs. I guess I should have known better. I mean after all I usually give flowers to my aunt Lynne for Mother's Day and she has no children, but she did help raise us. You know what I had a good Mother's Day...better than I ever knew!! May 10 Thinking hard...I feel a little better today. I at least got out of the house and took Kenny lunch and got some sunshine and fresh air. I even aired out the house as I cleaned this morning. It is such a fresh smell; Spring that is. I have been racking my brain most of the day trying to figure out what to get my mom tomorrow for Mother’s Day. I normally would have a present by now but life has been a little crazy for her and each time I think of something it just doesn’t seem to be enough. I would like nothing more than to be able to make her happy again. I know only time will do that right now. She is such a strong and brave lady and I know that she will get through this and become an even stronger lady. I mean she is why I am who I am; she is why I am as strong as I am. What do you get for the person that has given you life and made yours so perfect when theirs is falling apart? May 09 Friday Feast...Appetizer When someone smiles at you, do you smile back?
Well as most of you here know I most certainly try to give them, cause I mean they are free…and contagious! Ha ha ha!!
Soup Describe the flooring in your home. Do you have carpet, hardwood, vinyl, a mix?
I have a mix. Most of the rooms are hardwood and I love that, I mean L-O-V-E it is so easy to keep the cat hair cleaned up and with 3 cats you need all the help you can get. The hallway and the computer area have carpet, which I was supposed to clean today but haven’t cause Kenny has given me his cold. The basement has cement in the laundry room and probably some sort of asbestos tile in the TV room from the 1970’s.
Salad Write a sentence with only 5 words, but all of the words have to start with the first letter of your first name.
Aimee ate all active animals. (kind of weird eh? nothing new though really I mean I pretty much eat anything at this point)
Main Course Do you know anyone whose life has been touched by adoption?
My whole families to be honest with you. I am still looking for my sister who at this point I guess doesn't want to be found. Maybe someday she will want to get to know us. I guess all I can do for right now is wait.
Dessert Name 2 blue things.
Even though the sky is blue so is my mood...damn that Kenny and his germs! May 08 On the go...It has been a crazy day. I have been out running around with mom and we got a chance to go and see Mandy (my step sister) and have coffee with her. I haven’t seen her since the wedding and as usual she was looking great. We even had some time to do some shopping, which was great therapy for mom. I do hope that since Mandy has moved closer that I will be getting to see her more often. I know that there is an 11-year difference between her and I but she is just way too mature for her age. She is going to school and is about to get her first apartment this summer. I am so excited for her. I remember getting my first place, it was a hole…but it was home to me!
Mom and Ian have decided to go their separate ways. We knew it was coming but I guess I just never thought how hard it would be. The sad part is that I think there is so much more to the story than he is willing to admit, so much that I couldn’t even look at him in the eyes the other night. He is such a different person than he was 2 years ago, and I think a lot of the changes had to do with the people he has been hanging out with since he moved up North. Mom is hanging in strong as she always does, but I know that she is hurting pretty bad. I guess the worst part is that I can’t make her stop hurting. Now I know what she felt like when I was heartbroken. May 07 29 weeks...Your baby's head is getting bigger and his brain is developing billions of neurons (important for later learning) at an amazing rate. Ok can we keep the baby’s head growth to a minimum; I mean we all know where that baby has to come out of right! Nearly all babies react to sound by 30 weeks. What do you mean 30 weeks; we have been listening to music for weeks and reacting. He loves Dallas Green too!! His nutritional needs are growing too. Tell me about it, I think I am on a see-food diet!! To meet his body's demands, you'll need plenty of protein, vitamin C, folic acid and iron. I think I am getting enough, in fact I may have made a new discovery about Folic Acid, but I will get back to you when the experiment is complete. His bones in particular are soaking up lots of calcium right now, (about 200 milligrams is deposited in your baby's skeleton every day) so drink your milk (or if you don't like the taste, try calcium-enriched orange juice). I know I am getting enough milk, it’s one of my favorites cause it means I can have Instant Breakfast. Your baby now weighs around 2.5 pounds / 1.1 kilograms and measures about 15 inches / 38 centimetres from head to toe. Ha ha ha, I can almost believe this cause I haven’t felt as heavy as of late, in fact I have had a string of dys were I have been feeling rather light. Then again I haven't really been trying to fit into much other than baggy sweats. In boys, testicles descend from near the kidneys through the groin en route to the scrotum. Noice! My kid has balls!!
May 06 Follow the leader...Yes I can admit that I have become very lazy. Although I don’t seem to get a lot accomplished I have a very clean house! When I am bored I just grab some sort of cleaner and clean something. Yesterday I cleaned out the kitchen, junk drawer and all. I even did a bit of the bathroom.
In the afternoon I helped out a friend that runs a daycare and looked after three four year olds and a three year old, yes you read that right four kids. I don’t know how she does it daily cause she is due within the next few weeks. It was just for a few hours and they basically kept each other entertained so it’s not really like it was hard. The fact remains that they have so much energy and just watching then run around makes me tired. They were all really polite but when they all wanted to tell me something they deemed really important all at once I didn’t know where to start. They were all girls so it was funny to see how they played together. It was a rough few moments when they all wanted to be the queen, expect for when one thought that it would be better to be a princess. Then they all decided that being a princess was much better. It’s great to see such different personalities in kids. It really makes me wonder what Chuck is going to be like.
I am having a lot of problems getting around to peoples sites. Not too sure if it's my computer or MSN, but don't worry I will keep trying. May 05 Super nesting...What a crazy weekend, it just was so long and yet it went by so fast especially Sunday. It sucks that it’s the only day that Kenny and I get together, and it’s also the busiest day of the week for us sometimes. I wish that he could be off on sick leave with me and we could get things ready for the baby together. Then again I am sure that it is a good thing that we aren't together 24/7. Instead I think I will start the “super nesting” myself. I refer to it as super nesting cause I having OCD feel that I nest on a regular basis, or 5S as I refer to it. I have so much to get done that it all seems overwhelming even though it really isn’t necessary and I really don’t know where to start. I think for now I will start in the kitchen and work my way eventually to the nursery, maybe do one room a day. If I leave the nursery until last then I can get more input into what Kenny thinks we should do. I would like to say that I am going to get started right away but honestly I have done the dishes an am airing out the house as I type. I think that it might just be time for a nap. I can’t seem to sleep in anymore, but I can always go back to sleep after breakfast and a bit of cleaning. Weird eh?
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