Wow it has been an entire month since I last blogged! Time really does fly by, and this pregnancy has been no exception! I am nearing the end and getting so excited! About 4 weeks ago we met with one of our nurse midwives, Pam and she confirm with a quick ultrasound that our baby's head was in fact down. I had been worried that she was still lying sideways across my belly so getting to see that image of the back of her skull (indicating that she is also Occiput Anterior, meaning facing back) was a relief. I knew she had time to flip but I was of course unnecessarily worried that she wouldn't. We have had several baby showers, 3 more since the first one, all of which have been a lot of fun! This past weekend I had my baby shower in Austin and it was a lot of fun getting to spend time with my parents and little brothers and getting to reconnect with other friends and family that I had not seen in a long time! I'm so thankful I was able to make that trip before the baby was born.
This week is bittersweet, it is my last week of working at USAA. I have been working there since finishing my internship 2 years and 4 months ago. There is one client that I have been training from the beginning and several others that I have had for a very long time as well, so I am of course going to miss working with them. Today I ran the trails at USAA just for old times sake. I trained for my first half marathon on the USAA trails, because it just felt a lot safer running there at 5:30 AM in the dark rather than in neighborhoods. Yes I am still running, I had a couple weeks where I only ran once and did elliptical and weights the other days. I had actually made a final decision to stop about a week ago because it was just getting so hard, but then we had a few mornings of gorgeous, cool weather and I just had to get back out there! So now I'm back to jogging 3 days a week for 2.5 to 3 miles, taking about 45 minutes. I've been communicating with my nurse midwives about it and they all say "If you're feeling good you can run until the day she's born."
The nursery is finally coming together, about two weeks ago Michael and his brother got the blinds and the curtains up! Our friend Courtney gave us her crib so they built that too! Very exciting, we are so blessed to have been given a crib rather than have to purchase a new one!
I don't know if I mentioned this in a previous blog but the first couple from our Bradley class had their baby (like the following week after the class ended), and she had a very fast, intense labor, also called precipitous labor. But she did it naturally with no pain medication as was her plan! The second family, my friend Carly, just had her baby last week I think, and I do not know much of the details of her labor other than that she pushed for under ten minutes! That's crazy awesome! She attributes that to having aligned hips thanks to going to the chiropractor for the last few weeks of pregnancy. I've been going to the same chiropractor for 3 weeks now, and whether or not it's going to help me in labor, it's definitely helping my back, I have almost no pain now! And finally, last week my friend Valerie, who has been giving me lots of pregnancy and baby advice just had her 3rd baby. Her labor was also pretty fast, as it always is, but she had her first home, water birth this time! I'm so excited for all of the new babies, and I can't wait to have mine!
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