34 Weeks.

I told myself I was not going to fall behind again on blogging about all the events we have had the past few weeks, but alas, I have.  I’ll start now trying to catch up.  They are not in order due to I do not have my camera with me at work, so I do not have pictures share so I’ll start with just the boring pregnancy updates.

Today I am 34 weeks!  Time still feels like it’s crawling by for me.  I have determined that it will never speed up for me.  Next week will be my last biweekly checkups; then I start the once a week ones.  As much as I’m not looking forward to being check each visit, I am excited to find out at times if I have dilated at all. 

On the pregnancy front, this week has been a great week for sleep!  I have slept through the night the past 2 nights (ok, so my definition of sleeping through the night right now means only waking up between 11:40 and 12:40 to pee, and then again around 4-5:30 for good).  I finally figured out why, we have not had the heat on at night and last night we had the air on.  I sleep better when I’m cold.  The plan is turn the heat off at night so I can sleep better.  Thankfully we have a very heavy winter comforter for Brian to use to stay warm.  I feel like I am as huge as a house; seems like my belly has grown the past week.  Ugh. 

We are halfway through our birthing classes.  Last night we were the only ones in the class; there is only one other couple in the class now.  The annoying couple was only there the first 2 classes.  I do have to share the story on them.

“Last night we found out that she had the baby Friday.  She had pre-eclampsia so her doctor decide to induce her on Thursday night.  She was, I believe, 35 weeks or so.  They gave her the meds to make her cervix ripen, but it did not take.  They tried again Friday morning with the same procedure, but did not happen.  After a few hours of no progress, she had to have a c-section.  It’s ironic due to all she would talk about was how she was going to have it naturally, use a doula, etc.  (Hey, I’m all for that if you can do it, but she was putting down those who used drugs for pain.)  Moral of the story, things do not always work out as you plan.”

Not sure what dreams mean when you are pregnant, but I did have an interesting one last night.  I dreamt that I has Zoey this week.  Maybe I’m just so ready for this to be over and her to be here, that my brain is on over load.  Of course it was a weird dream, but I do remember having her.  Does that mean she will arrive sooner than later???  Maybe all these classes are getting to me.  Since I have no read anything about pregnancy the whole time, I have not had dreams like this and now that I have been in taking the information of the signs of labor I’m starting to have them. Crazy.