Hi, guys. Welcome back to my pregnancy updates. Today I'm going to update you on how week
32 and 33 has gone. Basically, the baby now should weigh about four pounds, and be up
to 48 centimeters, so getting really big now. His bones are hardening, may have hair, his
immune system is totally developed now, so that's good, and also, from now on he is going
to put on about half a pound a week, so really getting nice and fat hopefully.
Yeah, so the most exciting thing that's happened this week is I have finished work. Yay. I
work three days a week in an office, doing marketing, and that has now come to an end,
so I can now just enjoy nesting and getting prepared for this baby. My first pregnancy,
I worked until two weeks before my due date, and with my second pregnancy, I worked right
up until my due date.
This time, I'm having nearly six weeks off, so it is such a treat, and I'm so excited
because there's so much I need to do around the house. We've just had loads of building
work done, so there's lots of decorating to do, and just having a good old sort out and
clear out before the baby comes. So I'm really looking forward to nesting over the next few
weeks, and also, the day that I finished work, my eldest finished school for the summer.
Yeah, I'm just really looking forward to some good days out, and just enjoying the boys
before the chaos of a newborn.
As for me now, I am definitely looking very pregnant, and my bump is really low. I do
always carry low, but everyone is saying, "You're really low now." I'm definitely waddling
when I walk along, and if I'm at the shops or something and I catch a glimpse of my reflection
in a window, I can see that I am waddling because this baby feels so low. It feels like
it could come out at any point. I know that's like TMI, but every now and then, I will feel
pressure down there already, and yeah, I don't know if it's because it's my third and there
is no muscle left, or if he is just particularly low, but I do feel like he is right between
my legs.
Overall, for this stage of pregnancy, I think I'm feeling really well, but I am feeling
tired, especially when it's really, really hot. Obviously it's July, and the other day
it was 32 degrees, so I actually got in the paddling pool with the boys, because I was
just like, "I can't take it anymore." So I have been struggling to sleep, as well. I've
had some lower back pain when I have a big day out. Also, my tailbone is sore, and I've
been having some hip pains when I'm laying in bed and I want to roll over. Sometimes
when I go to roll over, it feels like my hip bones are disconnecting from the rest of me,
and it's so painful. My pelvis is so painful when I lay down at night. But luckily, in
the day, when I'm walking around, it's actually a bit better.
One new symptom this week that I haven't had up until now is now apparently I am snoring
when I sleep. This has happened to me in previous pregnancies when I'm nearly full-term. I don't
know if it's squishing my lungs or something like that, but I start snoring. I was like,
"Oh, I'm so embarrassed," and my husband was like, "No, it's really cute." I was like,
"Yeah, it's cute."
I think all pregnant women will know what I mean when I say, at this stage of pregnancy,
everything just feels like an effort. Like, things that I just never even thought about
before are getting quite hard to do, like when the boys go to bed and then I go to clear
up their toys, getting down on the floor and cleaning up their toys is like, "Oh," it's
such an effort, so I'm just struggling with things like that.
Some of you may already know this, but we are planning a home birth for this baby, so
next week we have a midwife coming round to assess the house, talk to us about what we
should buy, how we can prepare for it, and all of that kind of stuff. I have actually
been thinking about the labor a lot now, because I know that it's coming, and because I felt
some pressure, I feel like it's imminent.
So anyone that I speak to that has three children, I've sort of been like, "How did the third
birth go, if you don't mind me asking?" Because some midwives have said to me, it's either
really, really quick, like an hour and they're out, or you can go back to the start and it
be really long and really unpredictable, so who knows what's going to happen? I feel like
because he's so low, it might be quick, but then because it might be really quick, it
might be more painful, so I need to stop getting worked up about it, and just do more hypnosis
and just relax about it.
In terms of birth plans, I literally have the exact same birth plan that I've had for
both of my boys, and it's the exact same piece of paper as well. Every time we've had a baby,
I've just put it in my top drawer, and I've still got it. So, basically, my birth plan
is probably the same as a lot of people's. It is as natural as I can possibly do it,
but please don't deny me drugs if I really want them. I say yes to the vitamin K injection
afterward, and the injection to help get the placenta out. Matt wants to cut the cord.
One thing in my birth plan that has to happen, and that is very much Matt's responsibility,
when I'm giving birth, to make sure that that does happen, and that is that I want to have
the baby on all fours or standing up, because in my first labor I had him laying down on
my back, and I broke my tailbone. It wasn't painful at the time, but the months following
the birth, my tailbone was really sore.
Second time, I had Caleb on all fours, and I didn't experience that at all. So I just
really need to have him on all fours, even though sometimes midwives sort of want you
to lay on your back. I said to Matt, "Don't let them." I don't think I'm going to have
a water birth because I've never had one before, but they've said to me that if we want the
pool, it's free and they can bring it, so I don't know if I should just say bring it,
and then the option's there, but I can't imagine myself getting into the pool, so I don't know
if there's any point.
I have a few nice things planned coming up, as well. I'm going to have a pregnancy massage
at the salon, so that will be a nice way to relax. My closest friends have also booked
a girls' lunch thing, so it's not like a baby shower, because, let's face it, it's my third,
I have everything that I need, but it's just going to be a little bit of a lunch before
the chaos of three comes, so I'm really looking forward to that as well.
Yeah, and there are a few products that I've got, but they are still in boxes, so I can't
really show you, because I'm so frightened of getting them out of the box, because there
is still dust and painting and stuff going on in our house.
But I've got a SnüzPod, which is like a little cot that goes on the side of your bed. I'm
so excited about that because I've never had one before. I've only had a Moses basket,
and my boys, because they're so big, they are literally grown out of the Moses basket
within about eight weeks. This should last about six months.
I've also got one more product, and I'm so excited about this product. It is a Doona
car seat. It is a car seat that has wheels on it already, so they literally just come
down. I saw a few other bloggers and people that have this, and I was like, "That will
be amazing for the school run." So I've got that, but it's still in the box, but I'm so
excited about that product.
Right, I think that's all that I wanted to update you on in the last couple of weeks.
I'm now going to go play with this crazy boy because the youngest is sleeping, and he is
now bored. So we're going to go and play slingshots, aren't we? One more thing is that I think
I am going to vlog the birth. It's kind of down to my husband, he's going to have the
camera, so I'm going to see what he can get and what I can edit together, but yes, a birth
vlog is coming. Okay, say bye bye.
Bye.
Bye, thanks.
I can shoot you.