6 days away from my April 5th due date and no sign that this baby is coming any time soon. Besides a few things that have happened in the last couple weeks that make it obvious that this baby is preparing and labour is coming sooner than I feel ready to take on. I know it's inevitable though.
We thought my water broke last Saturday so Mont called the hospital and they advised us to come in so they could see if my membranes had ruptured. I didn't have any contractions after so I'm not sure what happened there but the nurse looked things over and we left after about an hour and in a way wish we'd never gone in but it was important that we went for the baby's safety. IF there's a chance the baby could get an infection then it's first priority is to find out for her sake.
I had two nights this week that contractions were painful but they have also since gone away.
At my check up Dr. Browne said it's soft but not open so I think we have time. I am just grateful she's head down and that things are good and the baby's healthy and still active in there where she's safe for now.
Every day Mont asks if I'm having the baby today. He's so excited, it's cute. He's going make such an amazing dad. He's so loving and gentle. I love him so much and I can't wait to give him this child. It'll be so amazing to have our baby and will change a lot about our home and relationship.
Mont suggested another name for the baby. I always only liked the name Kinlee but we both kind of like the name Kale too. Mont still doesn't want a middle name. I think I do, but I can't think of one. Kale Jensen. We bought the movie "Dreamer" and the girls name on there is Kale (spelt Cale). We might be buying a horse and a baby all in the same week. Exciting and good though. It's an 11 year old gilding. I know it'll make Mont happy to have both. He loved his horse Poco and misses him. Mont used him as a team rope horse. His heart is in roping and riding. He loved it and wants to be able to do it still. He hurt his back really bad when he was young and has made it through two very difficult and long scary surgeries. It's a miracle he can even walk and function as good as he does for what he's been through. He's amazing our baby is very lucky to have such a strong person as her dad. He's not a quitter---he will never give up! It's just not in him. He amazes me every day! ANyway, I'm glad he found a horse---I hope he really likes him and that we do get him. It'll be fun for him and good for our kids once they are a little older and can get on the horse safely.
One more day of work and then I am finished for good. I can't wait to stay at home and be a mom!!
It's been really neat to experience the past nine months and to feel this baby grow and move and now it's large and ready to face the world. I am also ready for our baby to come. I feel large and uncomfortable.
Some of the most uncomfortable things have been heart burn and back aches, hips ached and peed way too often, especially lately. I have had a good pregnancy though and I really can't complain. I am just grateful I can get pregnant and stay pregnant and I hope that I can handle delivering a baby too. It's really an amazing process.
Any day now though. Would be nice.
I am pretty tired all the time and will trade that for a different kind of tired with being up in the night with a newborn.
Holli would have a week old baby right now. She has her kids 2 weeks early. I am 39 weeks and 1 day so I'm almost to the full 40 weeks along.
At least it's spring time. I love spring! And I'm excited to have this baby in the spring season and for it to be an April baby. I've always loved the month of April.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
38 Weeks
Mont and I were married 11 months ago today. And we are very close to having our first baby. Could be any day now really. I had Braxton-Hicks contractions hard a week and a half ago and I was sure we were going to have this baby on March 15th. I also lost most of the mucous plug (I hate that word) at the same time which scared me bad at first and thats when the contractions started. I read up on both things and learned that those things happen and can happen any where from hours to weeks before real labour begins. I've had minor contractions since but not nearly what it was and I'm sure nothing close to what it will be. It just feels like everything tightens and contracts for a few seconds at a time (up to 30 or so) enough to make me need to grip something near me to handle the small pain that it causes. More like severe discomfort than pain. But intense! I can't believe how fast this has all gone by. It's Crazy! We've been so busy. With work and callings at church and getting out to have fun too we've managed to keep very busy.
I only have five days left of work at the clinic and I am okay with that. Apparently there was a lot of bad feelings toward me from some of the doctors about me coming back three months pregnant. Ron asked me to leave by the end of February which came as a shock to me. He'd hired Jacquie Smith already 2 months before I had told him I'd work until. Things turned around for me when Barb Falk quit which left them in a bind so they came back to me asking if I'd work until I can't anymore or until March 31st. So here we are. It's different there now than it was before when I worked there everyone was more enjoyable and happy there was way less backbiting!
So it'll be nice to be home with my baby and not have to work outside of the home.
Mont loves his new job. Sometimes I can tell that it stresses him out. He hates to disappoint his boss so it eats at him when he isn't as good as he wants to be. But he is only getting better all the time. We feel very blessed in our lives to have the jobs we do but especially his and to bring a child in to a home that has a decent steady income that can only get better.
As far as this pregnancy goes (since this is a pregnancy, not personal, journal) I feel good. I've gained about 25 lbs but people tell me I don't look big anywhere but in my stomach area. I feel it everywhere though. The baby still moves, a lot. Pushes hard against my body! If she were born now she's considered full term and will survive.
Within two weeks we could have a baby and Mont wants her here now. I was worried it was coming last week which would have been hard for me because Lauren was finally sealed and blessed after 18 months of waiting for it I did not want to miss it. We made it and it was amazing especially the sealing. The spirit was so strong and Lauren is so special that the experience is beyond words to express but it was perfect. I am so glad that she will be ours forever now just like this baby growing inside me. I hope Lauren and our baby will grow up to be good friends and a strength to each other in the hard times that this world will likely inflict on them. It's an awful evil time and will be difficult without the influence of good people who stay away from the degrading things of this world. It's also a very amazing time to come to the earth with all the good that is in it too!
This pregnancy is almost over and our baby will be here. We are so excited and looking forward to meeting our beautiful daughter and holding her for the first time. A lot of changes but all for the better. We will do the best we can to raise our child to be happy and will always to whats best for her. We've loved her already and always will. We've loved this baby from the moment we knew we were pregnant and a very long time before this. I know we were a family meant to be together forever----we lived before we came to this earth and Mont and I found each other and were sealed for all time and eternity in the Cardston Alberta Temple on April 23rd 2005 and we are now bringing our first born child in to this world approximately 11 months after our sealing together our family to come. We are so blessed to have this knowledge and to be married in a Temple of the Lord to benefit our future family as much as each other!
This book has been used as a pregnancy journal and I think I will continue to use it as a journal and a place to scrapbook items for Kinlee. I hope one day she will treasure this book and look to it when she finds herself in a similar stage in her life. or just whenever she wants to know that she is loved and has been since long before she even realizes.
I only have five days left of work at the clinic and I am okay with that. Apparently there was a lot of bad feelings toward me from some of the doctors about me coming back three months pregnant. Ron asked me to leave by the end of February which came as a shock to me. He'd hired Jacquie Smith already 2 months before I had told him I'd work until. Things turned around for me when Barb Falk quit which left them in a bind so they came back to me asking if I'd work until I can't anymore or until March 31st. So here we are. It's different there now than it was before when I worked there everyone was more enjoyable and happy there was way less backbiting!
So it'll be nice to be home with my baby and not have to work outside of the home.
Mont loves his new job. Sometimes I can tell that it stresses him out. He hates to disappoint his boss so it eats at him when he isn't as good as he wants to be. But he is only getting better all the time. We feel very blessed in our lives to have the jobs we do but especially his and to bring a child in to a home that has a decent steady income that can only get better.
As far as this pregnancy goes (since this is a pregnancy, not personal, journal) I feel good. I've gained about 25 lbs but people tell me I don't look big anywhere but in my stomach area. I feel it everywhere though. The baby still moves, a lot. Pushes hard against my body! If she were born now she's considered full term and will survive.
Within two weeks we could have a baby and Mont wants her here now. I was worried it was coming last week which would have been hard for me because Lauren was finally sealed and blessed after 18 months of waiting for it I did not want to miss it. We made it and it was amazing especially the sealing. The spirit was so strong and Lauren is so special that the experience is beyond words to express but it was perfect. I am so glad that she will be ours forever now just like this baby growing inside me. I hope Lauren and our baby will grow up to be good friends and a strength to each other in the hard times that this world will likely inflict on them. It's an awful evil time and will be difficult without the influence of good people who stay away from the degrading things of this world. It's also a very amazing time to come to the earth with all the good that is in it too!
This pregnancy is almost over and our baby will be here. We are so excited and looking forward to meeting our beautiful daughter and holding her for the first time. A lot of changes but all for the better. We will do the best we can to raise our child to be happy and will always to whats best for her. We've loved her already and always will. We've loved this baby from the moment we knew we were pregnant and a very long time before this. I know we were a family meant to be together forever----we lived before we came to this earth and Mont and I found each other and were sealed for all time and eternity in the Cardston Alberta Temple on April 23rd 2005 and we are now bringing our first born child in to this world approximately 11 months after our sealing together our family to come. We are so blessed to have this knowledge and to be married in a Temple of the Lord to benefit our future family as much as each other!
This book has been used as a pregnancy journal and I think I will continue to use it as a journal and a place to scrapbook items for Kinlee. I hope one day she will treasure this book and look to it when she finds herself in a similar stage in her life. or just whenever she wants to know that she is loved and has been since long before she even realizes.
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