Today I am 40 weeks and 3 days pregnant with my 4th child. It was never supposed to get to this point. In my mind, #BabyTheLast was supposed to scribble an "I wuz here" on the uterus wall and make her escape around 38 weeks.
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I'm done being pregnant. I've been done being pregnant for a few months now, but the last couple weeks have been particularly challenging.
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In the last few days before a birth it feels as though the world is holding its breath. Everything around me is muted, like a city sleeping under a heavy snowfall -- the sounds and colours and movement is there, but slowed, quieted, muffled.
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I love music -- LOVE MUSIC -- there is very little I won't happily listen to, in the right mood. Many a road trip has featured a carefully-crafted mix-disc (or twelve). Why should homebirth be an exception?
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As the weeks remaining in this pregnancy diminish, so to shrinks my to-do list. There are still a lot of things left on it but they seem a little less insurmountable, a fraction less overwhelming. As I work through it on automatic pilot, my thoughts wander.
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I'm 35 weeks pregnant now. If my labour history holds true, I've about a month left in my pregnancy. This weekend I wrote up our massive "to do" list of things that need to be done before our last baby arrives -- before our daughter is born and fills that last little corner of our family. It's a long list...
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