Getting Ready for Baby #2: The Difference a Week Makes

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So if you read my post last week you can probably guess how I spent the last week. It went something like this: worry, worry, lie on my back with my ass & legs propped in the air, wear constricting garments, worry, worry some more, move around the house on all fours, hang out in downward facing dog, worry, take a deep bath while rubbing my belly in circles, talk to baby to try to convince it to turn over and worry some more. Well turns out all of that helped (well probably not the worrying, but hey, whatever)!

At my appointment yesterday we discovered that a) baby is nicely head down just as it should be and b) my fluid is still "generous" but not in the danger range anymore. Well...I guess it just goes to show the amazing things that can happen in a short time. It is also a great example of the fact that ultrasounds and other prenatal testing is mostly linked to higher maternal stress and worry (and also higher rates of c-sections).

While I am glad that we did the test, since I was essentially measuring a full month ahead of schedule that day, I wish we could have gone without. Of course you can't turn back time and now that we know what we know I think we're glad we weren't risked out of the home birth we'd wanted back in the beginning. I'm also glad that I now know that I'm likely to face a similar labor to the one I had last time (long and probably painful) because of the shear amount of amniotic fluid I seem to contain. Especially if my water breaks again. But even still, it's a good lesson in how to let go, which for anyone who knows me well knows is hard for me to do.

So here we are with 4 weeks left until 40 weeks and amazingly I think we're (almost) ready for baby's arrival.