Only 7 weeks away from my due date.
I am getting excited and nervous, a little, for the delivery. But I'm sure it'll be just fine. Women have done this for hundreds and thousands of years and without the technology and options for less pain that doctors have now.
The upstairs is finished now. With carpet and trim and paint it looks and feels a lot nicer. We are prepared for the baby if it were to come any day. Hopefully that doesn't happen but if it did we have clothes, diapers, car seat, bassinet and diaper bag. We should have more blankets and probably lots of other things but the bare necessities to start with.
I cheated and got another ultrasound to find out the gender of our baby. Deep down I kind of thought this whole time that this baby is a girl. According to the ultrasound, the baby is female. We are excited about having a daughter. If she is a girl we will mostly likely be naming her Kinlee Jensen. Mont insists on naming our girls without middle names. If we did put a middle name with Kinlee, all I can think of that flows is Rae. But Mont's pretty adamant about not having a middle name. I should be too considering my name has always had more letters than the alphabet. Dawna Elvida Rae Fredriksen-Jensen. Way too long! If she turns out to be a boy---Mont likes the name Brogan with the middle name King. I like the name Stetson. But in a way not really...Stetson Jensen...I don't know. Anyway it's probably a girl so we don't have to worry about naming a boy. Either way we so excited to have this baby. To meet and see her for the first time. The ultrasound picture I got last time looking like Mont to me.
I got hit last month with a bad bad cold and fever. I did not feel well at all and even had to miss work. About 10 hours. I couldn't take anything and that made it hard. Plus in the middle of it I fell pretty hard when my knee gave out on my which left me with extremely aching joints, hip and back pain. My hips hurt so bad I could hardly walk especially by the end of the day. It was horrible. I made it through all that somehow and just today I'm noticing my lymphnodes are swollen and sore. I really hope I don't start this all over again. I guess if I have to have it it's better now than when I am suppose to have this baby. It's hard not being able to take anything when you're that sick. I did end up taking 1/2 a Tylenol one night after Mont gave me a blessing and the fever left fast after that. The sweetest thing he did when I was that sick besides the blessing and back rub afterwards was when he boiled pot after pot of water for a bath I so desperately needed warm and soothing while I was so ill. Our Hot Water supply is very low apparently and the cold ran through when the hot should have way too soon. Sweet Mont took care of me so well and I felt the fever leave me that night. With a hot bath, 1/2 a safe pain pill for pregnant women, and some TLC from Mont...I made it through. See what a good dad he so obviously will be someday....very soon!
I am quite big now. Still fit in to my normal jeans but I have put on 15-20 lbs.
I am 33 weeks pregnant. The baby moves all the time. Now that she weighs 4 lbs and is almost 16 inches long---the movements aren't so gentle anymore. My ribs get kicked and pressed on allt he time. She's in the birthing position now (head against cervix, spine along my left side and feet up by my ribs) Way to go baby!! So when she stretches she pushes hard against my bladder and sometimes makes it unbearable. But over-riding all of the discomforts is the joy of still feeling life inside of me. It's amazing! More than anything, I wish Christal could experience this for herself! She is more open with me about it now and talks about it more than she used to.
