Owen's Mama just asked when the official due date is...It's March 5th, which is coming very very soon. I will be 8 months (35 weeks) pregnant this Monday.
Time flies like CRAZY.
We bought a baby car seat.
We bought newborn-size diapers. When we opened up the package, we found ourselves exclaiming in excited bewildered high-pitched tones together over the tininess of these little diapers, and the corresponding tininess inferred of our little one's bum.
I can feel the baby's bottom at the top of my belly sometimes when the baby is flexing. The head is still down, and dropping well into my pelvis. I know this from my midwife's telling me, and from a firsthand experience of having less heartburn and more room to eat more at a time. What a relief as I get hungrier!
The average baby at this stage is just over 5 lbs, is fully developed (kidneys are all done, fingernails are even in place) and just needs to put on weight. So I'll be eating.
In other news, our laptop is working again, plus we have invested in a new computer which should be arriving this week. This will mean being able to post our own pictures from our brand new digital camera which Matthew's parents gave us for christmas on our own computer... more belly pictures coming this way in the near future! Hopefully this will also facilitate getting pictures of the little kumquat out to all of you shortly after birth...
We are so excited!
We've been attending prenatal classes every Thursday evening at the local community centre five minutes from our place. I found out through the class about a massage therapy school that gives free prenatal massages to pregnant women in their third trimester! Needless to say I called and made an appointment right away!
The ladies from our church are having a shower for me next Saturday. It is so moving and humbling during the litanies in Church when Father John reads down the list of commemorations and comes to our names: "Matthew and Cheryl and the child to be born of her..." and to see so many people throughout the church making the sign of the cross spontaneously as they join their prayers together for us.What a gift to have so much support. Thanks be to God!
