Today marks the completion of week 34. Wallis is officially a "feed and grow baby" as the MFM call them. This means that if born now she is very unlikely to have any lasting health issues. Of course, we want her to hang on for several more weeks. Truly, since the two weeks following the cerclage, I haven't felt like she wouldn't make it to term. I always worry, but I have been feeling pretty normal since the post-surgery contractions stopped. The past few weeks I have really just felt like a totally normal, if sedentary, pregnant woman. I can't really tolerate the heat, but who can? We are nearing 60 days of 100+ weather and about the past 25 have been consecutive. Yikes. Misery, even if you aren't huge and pregnant.
This past week my sweet and thoughtful coworkers threw a little baby shower for me and another attorney. It was extra special for me because (1) it was on my 7th anniversary of employment there, and (2) they also had a shower for Wyatt before he was born, so this was just a really nice celebration for the baby girl. Every week my friends at work cheer on Wallis's progress!
This weekend Ross and I are meeting with the doula to discuss our birth plan. Plan seems too strong a word, maybe birth aspirations, is a better description. We are also making a belly cast, which should be fun. I will also probably hit the Babies R Us to pick a few more items for Wallis's nursery using my shower gift card. Tuesday is another OB appointment and sonogram. We will probably have at least one appointment per week now until Wallis's birth. That is just around the corner. I am both excited and nervous. I can hardly recall what it is like to have a newborn. Seems such a strange and foreign notion now. While I actually have forgotten the pain of child birth--other than it was great--I have not forgotten the pain of months of sleep deprivation! I hope baby Wallis isn't a worse newborn sleeper than Wyatt. He was really good starting about four months, but it was very hard before that. That first four months of sleep deprivation has been the hardest part of motherhood for me.
Next week I'll update with pictures--I should have some of the shower and belly cast. And one of Wallis, too.
Congratulation on 34 weeks! I have definitely been thinking of you and my other pregnant friends during this ungodly heat. I hope you are able to stay cool. I am praying for Wallis to be a great sleeper... I know how hard those first few months are when you're completely exhausted. Although I wouldn't take back my wonderful boys, I still get a little crazy when I think of all the sleeplessness. XO
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