Sprout

I'm 33 almost 34 weeks pregnant and am getting very anxious to meet this baby!  Everything is looking great with Sprout and baby has dropped this week and in a very good position for delivery.  (Not that this means anything will be happening early!)

I have had a dream about my whole delivery and first week at home and Sprout was a boy.  So we'll see if this baby follows in Amelia's steps and is a girl or if I'm actually right this time.  What excited me about my dream was how beautiful the whole birth and first week went.  It was everything that I was hoping for and gave me a little boost that maybe things will go the way I hope.

This baby has been keeping me up at night with kicking so consistently that I'm already predicting our nursing schedule to be 10:30, 2:30, 5:30 and 7:30.  I'm not sure that I remember Amelia kicking me so hard either so we shall see if this is just a longer baby with less room or just another active child.

I'm definitely smaller at this point in my pregnancy than with Amelia but Sprout is measuring right on average for everything like Amelia.  I'm chalking it up to our different diet this time around.  My second trimester energy is all gone and I'm lucky if I have any energy left everyday to cook dinner.  I'm having a hard time cutting back on activities but I just don't feel good if I over do it.  I've also had to cut way back on the amount I'm eating at each sitting so I'm eating 5-6 times a day.

The other major difference with this pregnancy is that we have a midwife and are planning a homebirth.  I love our midwife!  She has been able to calm me down from some of my fears and help me to feel better when I've had bad weeks.  It's been so nice to have that extra support person to listen to me.  Our appointments are at home which has been wonderful as we usually have them during Amelia's nap time.  The times that Amelia has been awake our midwife doesn't mind either.

So when Sprout's ready to come out into the world Amelia will go to stay with Grandma Sissy while Lucas and I stay at home.  With Amelia's birth I was told to come in immediately even though nothing was happening.  I now know that I could have stayed at home until things really kicked in and I'm excited to not have to be traveling around so much.  I will be able to labor in the comfort of my own little nest and not have the pressure of medications being pushed on me.  I will be able to labor as long as my body needs to and not have people constantly checking the state of my cervix and strength of contractions.  If something should happen and we need to transfer to the hospital we will and I'll be ok with the transfer because really it's all about bringing Sprout into the world and having both baby and Mommy healthy.  My goal is to be able to relax as much as possible and let my body do what I know it was designed to do.