Week 39 to 40

To week 29 to 38

Week 39 was a week of wait and see. This week for Erik finally brought the end of 4 weeks virtually working night and day, weekends included because at work a very important deadline had to be met. I had to comply of course with his request not to have the baby before the end of that week. In which I more than succeeded. For me this of course turned out to be very straining weeks, because it did mean that everything else than Eriks job, was my job. This in itself was not too bad, but being this pregnant, the care for Bram was more of a big deal. Bram is very good at crawling these days and exploring all the time, so that keeps me active and on my feet constantly. On top of that Bram got a nasty cold which completely threw him off his only recently obtained schedule. This was so bad that even at night he did not sleep through. In all this was for mommy just as fortunate as it was for him. I am convinced too that for him seeing so little of daddy made hime crave my attention even more. At a certain point he was completely convinced that he could not accept me getting out of sight at all. The end of this week fortunately brought relief, for all of us and the baby 'kept cooking' as some people put it here.

We now write week 40 (today is October 3rd). My due date is the 8th and I can note that the contractions I have been feeling over the past weeks have subsided. I think that this is because I now finally can relax now Erik has more normal working hours. I can take it a bit more easy, which I do seem to need nowadays. Next to this my body gets more in my way. You'll be able to note on the 39 weeks-picture that indeed my belly has dropped as opposed to the one taken with 37 weeks. The baby's position now is so low that both sitting and standing are harder on me and I really have to switch betweem those two. Everyone can guess that it now is very convenient that at night Erik takes over the biggest part of the carrying of Bram. You can really tell that neither one of them objects this. Bram is completely happy when he sees his daddy again and he makes sure to tire daddy completely with playing ;-)

Yesterday was Erik's birthday. I myself am happy that we did not have the baby then. Not only because we had planned a nice dinner for the 2 of us, but also because I'd like to have every family member to have their own day. It's going to be very sure that these two birthdays will be close together anyway. Past Monday felt a bit strange. I had my appointment and of course everything was perfect. It was strange though to be told that I have one more week left to go into labour on my own and that next Monday the doctor will review our situation again. Of course this is precisely as we knew things would work, but it was just strange to be actually nearing that point. Also hearing the wish at appointment making time that I would not make the appointment was in a way strange. Anyway, when I do make this appointment coming Monday, I will have an internal exam (not that funny of course) and an ultrasound, the thought of which I do like. For me of course the main purpose of this ultrasound is seeing the baby (I have never seen a baby this big on ultrasound) as opposed to the real objective of my doctor which is to check size etc.

So today is the Thursday after this and I feel good. My belly keeps quiet and I'm fine with that actually. I do not really care at this point when and how we will have the baby. Most important at this point is the fact that I have made it trough a full pregnancy this time and kept healthy troughout. This for me is the achievement and we'll await the course of things and go by the most sensible way.

For the rest of the story you'll all have to wait, just like us ;-)