Y E S ! I’ve made October! That was my aim with this pregnancy {even though I am not technically due for another two weeks, I really didn’t want to add another birthday to September}. You see September is full of Father’s Day, my mother in-laws’s birthday, my Dad’s birthday, my sister’s wedding anniversary, my sister’s birthday, the Little Dude’s birthday, my brother in-law’s birthday…We didn’t need any more birthdays in September.
We are now in the last days of pregnancy.
I’m tired. My belly is heavy, it makes it hard to pick things up off the floor, or roll over in bed or even cuddle the boys when they have an accident.
And yet in saying that I’ve made October and that baby could be here any day {because the little dude arrived 2 weeks early}, we could also be almost 4 weeks off a baby {with Mr Moo being two weeks late}.
Let’s face it people, babies come when babies want to come and no careful planning can change that.
I’d love it if baby did decide to show up this week, as my Mum is on school holidays and so it would be no issue with her having the boys whilst I am in hospital with baby number three {and Daddy is busy at Mr Perkins}.
Then again, my Mum has forewarned her work about the impending birth and that she might need to take the first week {or second week} of term 4 off, if baby arrives later {she definitely is a super Mum helping us out – we wouldn’t be able to do it without her and I think that’s a major reason why we are here in Sydney}.
It’s hard to know what to expect in the last days of pregnancy.
But a few words for kind friends who have not been at the end of their pregnancy or even – dare I say it – overdue. I learned a lot from some pregnancy blogs that author wrote. Don’t be texting or calling asking if there is any news {I mean Beth from BabyMac told you not to do it}.
Pregnant Mamas are going to be the most excited person about the arrival of their newborn, because they aren’t actually pregnant any more! They aren’t going to not tell you or forget to tell you. If there is no movement, if there is no news – there will be no text message.
I feel that Jana Studelska writing on Mothering was correct in saying the last days of pregnancy are a biologic and psychological event.
The discomforts of late pregnancy are easy to Google: painful pelvis, squished bladder, swollen ankles, leaky nipples, weight unevenly distributed in a girth that makes scratching an itch at ankle level a feat of flexibility. It sometimes makes me wanna take a bladder control supplement to lessen the frequent trips to the comfort room. Thank goodness I haven’t got PUPPS this time around where my whole body was itchy!
“You might find yourself teary and exhausted,” says one website, “but your baby is coming soon!” Cheer up, sweetie, you’re having a baby. As a mother of a three year old and a two year old, being this pregnant, I want to slap that person in the face {they probably haven’t even had a baby when they wrote that!}
These last days of pregnancy are a real emotional roller coaster.
But the last days of pregnancy are here and I can’t wait to meet this beautiful member of our family – who, in a few weeks time, will feel like they were always here {and that they were always meant to be here}.
I’ve wished for you for my entire life and I am so glad that you are coming to meet us! I love you baby xox
