36 Weeks!!

I am still here and baby is still safe and warm inside my belly. 36 Weeks was our first goal so now if I go into labour we can at least give birth at the local hospital with our midwife. Our next goal is to make it to 37 weeks when the baby is considered full term, then we can have the home birth we've been planning for all along. I wouldn't be surprised if we go past the due date and end up having to be induced, because wouldn't that just be ironic!

I really do think the universe was sending us a message to not go to Vancouver. I don't think it was specifically Vancouver that would have done it, but if we had gone I would have continued at the same pace and not taken the time out my body obviously needed. I was going along pretending I wasn't pregnant and doing everything everyone else was doing. I now realise that although it's good to be confident, it's also okay to just be pregnant and take it easy. It's very hard to just lay around all day when I see all the things that still need to get done, but now that I am forced to listen, I can hear that that's all my body actually wants to do. I have had a tremendous amount of help from family and of course Devinder. I think they are all learning that I am a bit stubborn and sometimes need to be told very sternly to just lay down. I am learning that it's okay to ask for help, people want to help and it doesn't mean that I am useless and demanding.

Interesting change that happened since the baby dropped, I almost completely rid of the horrible acid reflux now that the baby is not pushing up on my stomache so much.