We are in the home stretch now! Give or take 9 weeks till we meet this precious baby girl . I will admit I am so not ready! Scared actually.

I just keep thinking of everything we have to do. We havent even begun on her room , I still have to go through all her clothes, bedding, etc and wash and sort and fold. I dont even have a dresser for her yet. I mostly need small things other then a dresser and  a swing.

I have started to collect items from my home birth list so I also need to go through and sort them out, wash everything and put it all together in one safe place. I will still pack a hospital bag for myself and cole and madelyn just in case. Hopefully we wont need it.

The anesthesiologist from pre surgical called me the other day regarding my up and coming “delivery” and want to meet with me in case I end up with an epidural. They want to go over my PKU again and my injuries to my back and hips.  The appt is 4 hours long , i dont feel its necessary and have no idea why it needs to be 4 hours.

My schedule is pretty hectic over the next 2 weeks until the daycare closes. I have weekly massage and bi weekly chiro appts to manage the pain and get me through to due date. As well as midwife appts, one more ultrasound and one more blood profile panel to be done.  Come july our focus will shift to the nursery, relaxing and spending time with Madelyn before she becomes a big sister.

I am stressing out alot about the heat and hot weather and how dry it is. I am terrified of a wild fire , having family evacuated and staying with us as I dont want anyone here for the birth accept us.  I am worried about us getting evacuated, i’m worried about our home. I use to love summer so much, I lived for it. I come alive in summer, but now its so much stress because the last 2 years have been the worst in my life that i have ever seen due to wild fires.  Our province has been ravaged and scarred. Its so sad.

But im trying not to focus on it to much.

We sold our hamster Gus-Gus today, I am so sad to see him go but by the time the daycare closes at the end of the day, and the kids go home I shut off the lights and go upstairs so I dont get to spend the time with him or cuddle him as much as I want to. I dont even see him awake that often. It has become a chore to clean his cage and never intract with him. its not fair to him either. He needs love and attention.  so he went to a good home with kids who will handle him and love him everyday. Our daycare butterflies will be released soon to. Then we just have 1 more hatch left for our chicks. They are expected to hatch in about a week from now. We get to keep the chicks 2 weeks again then they go back to the farm.  So everything is winding down and ramping up all at the same time!

 

Here is what babycenter.ca has to stay about week 31 !

 

 

 

#31weeks down to single digit weeks !

Your baby’s arms, legs and body continue to fill out — and they are finally proportional in size to her head. She weighs about 3.3 pounds/1.5 kilograms and looks more like a newborn. She measures about 16 inches/ 41 centimetres from crown to toe.

You may notice your baby isn’t moving around as much. Don’t worry; she’s just running out of space in your uterus. As long as you can feel her squirming, you’ll know she’s just fine. Believe it or not, she still has plenty of growing to do. You can expect her to gain at least two more pounds/900 grams before delivery.