Week 28

I had a friend tell me that each time you’re pregnant you lose 10 % of your brain cells. I know now that I have an excuse. I cannot remember anything! I forget to check my schedule!

I am feeling well, still have morning sickness every once in a while but for the most part it is done. I am just awfully tired and am seldom in bed later than 8:00 p.m. Lots of ligament pain, and so after last Saturday, I won’t shovel the barn anymore. Jim will gladly do it but I wanted to surprise him and paid for it for two days.

I am having lots of Braxton hicks, normal non-working contractions, and this little baby wiggles up a storm. He has decided that my cervix is the best trampoline in the world and so I look forward to him turning and kicking me in the ribs instead. (Just kidding!) He loves me to rub my fingers against his back, and he pushes out harder till he has had enough. I really do believe that the baby can interact with you. I think that it is important to "play" with the baby, on those hard pregnant days, it pulls you through.

I bought a little baby listening device at Target. I put the ear-phones on and place the listening device on my belly, it is relaxing and comforting to listen to his heartbeat, hiccups and kicks. The children love to listen too, they get so excited to listen to their little brother and imagine what he is doing. This device will also record your own heartbeat, if you’d like to be able to play it to your newborn, apparently it is comforting.

The hardest part of the beginning of the third trimester is missing my baby. This sounds strange, I know. I know that he is right there, closer than he’ll ever be and yet he seems so far away. I long to hold him and see his face. Those first squinting looks, when he sees through me and into eternity. The looks that say, "so this is who was doing all the yelling", or perhaps he will be thinking,"It’s been awhile since I saw you Mom, I’m glad to be here."

So much to look forward to and so much to do, I am grateful for three more months to try and get ready. Be a better person, more perfect at the little things and the big ones, a new baby always makes me want to try harder. They come from such perfection and we owe them the best chance to stay that way, to achieve their potential and they in turn help us achieve ours.