The Baby on The Interior: –
37 weeks gone. Grey hair gone too! And Pretty Red Toes (TM). 🙂
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Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 37 Weeks
Dear Baby
This might very well be the last letter with no name attached.
Mummy was at the OB today and has been scheduled to have you delivered on Thursday, 11th June 2009. So there’s your birthday!
Just over a week and we’ll know if you’re Adam or Zoe!
It is beastly hot here, hottest its been in NI in eons during June. Just lovely for your mummy, whose feet and hands are swelling from the heat. She is just so very uncomfortable.
She has discovered, however, that if she pats a part of you, the part that she is 99.99% sure is your tushi, you move. 🙂 You’re a total wiggle worm!
We are ready for you to arrive, your daddy and I. So glad you’re ready to come!
Love
Mummy
Conversations with My Baby
I talk to the baby on the interior. All the time.
I tell it to hush and calm down when its kicking vigirously.
I’ve given it a tour of its room.
I’ve told it about its pram, which is currently in pieces in boxes.
And I tell it, every day, how much its Daddy and I love it.
The exact same conversations I will have with it once it becomes the baby on the exterior. Long before it will be able to understand me.
Luckily, Simon thinks its cute that I do this.
Even if he didn’t think it was cute, I would still do it. But at least he doesn’t think I’m totally bonkers! 🙂
Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 36 Weeks
Dear Baby
One Month Left. 🙂
Have been very busy getting your room ready. Your clothes are almost all washed and put away. The bumper is on your cot. The sheets will be on tomorrow or Thursday for sure.
You are being a major wiggle worm, constantly stretching and moving in my tummy. Its so nice to feel. It lets Mummy know that you are okay in there.
Mummy has been sleeping very well, which is a nice change from normal! I think it helps that I have no real stress at the moment. The lack of going to work is ace!
Daddy totally charmed Mummy this week when he was helping out taking your laundry out of the dryer. Cries of ‘Oooh little socksies!’ was just wonderful!
Mummy didn’t see the doctor today, so she’s not exactly sure how big you are now. She knows you were 6lbs last week, she imagines you’re even bigger this week.
Next Tuesday she’ll see the OB again, and quite possibly have your eviction date. How exciting!
Love
Mummy
And So It Begins
the baby’s laundry, I mean. 🙂
Just spent 45 minutes unwrapping, reading wash tags and separating in preparation for washing. First load is in washer.
The problem with not knowing the gender is that almost everything is white or off white. I am actually doing a white load and an off white load, there is so much!
And I was right…I still do need booties, hats and mitts. My mum keeps asking why I need those for a June baby. Well, it is a June baby in Belfast! Could be 5 C when its born. Although we are having some heat at the moment. That will probably end soon though.
After baby clothes are washed, I can begin putting them in the baby’s dresser, which doubles as its changing table. By the end of the week, the baby’s room will be ready. So very exciting!
Excellent, and Quick, Customer Service
So, when the OB said ‘come back in 2 weeks and then we’ll schedule a C-section for 10 days after that’ I went into panic mode a bit. Not about the baby nearly being here, but about being ready for the baby to nearly be here!
I still did not have:
The Amby Hammock
Sheets for the cot
Bumper for the cot
So I went online on Sunday and bought the Amby. It was delivered yesterday. WOW!
Then on Tuesday, I remembered that a friend on Mumsnet, when I had expressed concern about the lack of a baby bumper, which are not recommended for small babies due to possibility of suffocation, whereas I was worried about baby hitting its head, told me about the Airwave Cot Bumper. That was ordered Monday. I received it yesterday. WOW!
Then Wednesday I popped into Mamas and Papas to look at their sheets, as they had been recommended by a friend. The problem I had was that they had no waterproof mattress covers. In fact, when I asked about them, the sales woman looked surprised I would even want them because ‘all of our mattresses are specially covered already.’ To which I replied ‘lovely, but I didn’t buy my mattress here.’ And promptly left. So a web search for waterproof mattress covers sent me to: John Lewis. Where I also found sheets. So those were ordered on Wednesday. They arrived today. WOW!
So within 5 days, I had everything left on my list for baby.
Now I just need to put the sheets and bumper on the cot and set up the Amby.
And have a baby. 🙂
Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 35 Weeks
Dear Baby
Well, here we are. On Maternity Leave. And not a moment too soon!
Mummy is exhausted. Even with a good nights sleep, she is tired by lunch time. Today she has an antenatal appointment so she won’t get her nap this afternoon. Too bad!
You are still being a very active baby. Kicking me regularly at all hours of the day and night. It is so lovely!
Every day Mummy does a little bit to get your room in order. Today she ordered your Amby Cradle, so you’ll have some place to sleep in her and Daddy’s room. Hopefully it will be here next week!
Tomorrow Mummy is pampering herself at a Day Spa. Lots of beauty treatments scheduled. She’s really looking forward to it.
Mummy was at the clinic today. You are still measuring large for your dates. OB said to Mummy ‘come back in 2 weeks. We’ll probably schedule you for a C Section 10 days after that!!’
*GULP* Suddenly your birth is imminent. I mean, of course I knew it was coming. I have been keeping track. But those words just made it all seem so real.
And I.Can’t.Wait.
Love
Mummy
34 Weeks…
So just under 40 days. Not too shabby. Considering we started at 40 weeks!!
So glad the only dishes you can see are clean!! 🙂
Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 34 Weeks
Dear Baby
Truly in the home stretch now. 6 weeks to go.
Mummy is exhausted. She is struggling through her last few days of work and cannot wait to be able to rest whenever she likes.
As Mummy has said before, she is really not enjoying be pregnant. She loves feeling you move. She loves when you kick so hard Daddy can feel you move as well. She hates her achy bones and exhausted state of mind. She feels totally incoherent most of the time. And ancient. And on the edge of tears. Some say this is perfect practice for once you’re born. I say that once you’re born, Daddy can stay up all night with you on occasion!!!
All this is leading to the fact that you just might be an only child. On the one hand, Mummy has no problem with that. There is nothing wrong with only children.
On the other hand, I’d hate for you to miss out on how great it is to have a sibling. Your Uncle J and Mummy are very close, for example. As are your cousins S and R. Besides, who else can you gang up on your parents with?!? 🙂
Of course there is no decision here. This is just Mummy complaining a bit and thinking a bit. Everyone says I will forget how horrible I feel after you come. Maybe they’re right?
This week you are growing like crazy. You’re pretty much fully developed, just putting on fat and practicing breathing. If, god forbid, you were born right now? You’d probably have very little if any problems.
Daddy and I have been attending Antenatal classes, learning about how you get out of me! Daddy didn’t know a lot of this stuff and is wondering if he can bring his DS if this is going to take 30 hours! No, he may not!
What a long way we’ve come, my little love. See you soon.
Love
Mummy
Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 33 Weeks
Dear Baby
Mummy’s a day late this week because she was very very busy yesterday.
You see mummy starts her maternity leave in about 7 working days, so she’s been training her replacement. She’s trying to dump 4.5 years of knowledge into someone’s head in about 2 weeks. Just not possible, but she’s doing her best!
Also last night mummy and daddy went to their first antenatal class. It was very informative about normal labour and birth. Hopefully we’ll have one of those!
Mummy also saw her OB yesterday. You are a bit big, coming in at the top of the charts and weighing 5lbs already, but no one is concerned yet. The doctors will keep good track of you for the next 7 weeks and make sure you don’t get too big. And you seem to have moved head down already, which is very helpful of you! Of course, you could move back and forth a few times in the next month and a half!
Mummy’s job is to keep track of your movements and let them know if you start moving less. So far? Not a problem!!
7 more weeks my little love. And then you’ll be in my arms.
Love
Mummy