In hopefully 8 more weeks, I will be giving birth to our son! I'm excited, overwhelmed, nervous, and of course impaitent!
Andy and I have started taking classes offered at Ball Memorial Hospital. The first one we just finished is the Birthing class. There were 4 of us ladies there and amazingingly 3 out of the 4 of us are going for a natural childbirth. This is even more so amazing because the statistics for BMH is that 90% of the women actually get an epidural.
The birthing coach even commented that normally she might have one couple say they are doing NCB if any at all.
Even the one mom to be said she was leaning towards an epidural but she wanted to see what it was like at first anyways which makes sense.
I've gotten some comments from people who are like "You will want to get an epidural trust me."
I don't mind that they tell me this, but I don't like them assuming that I can't do it. It definitely makes me nervous about doing it. Not so much second guessing myself but just like "Wow, it's going to be really painful."
My mom had 3 out of 4 natural childbirths, me being a c-section baby because I was breech. That's probably the only thing I am actually worried about. Going to the hospital and laboring for hours only to find out that Wilson's not coming out and then getting a c-section.
Since I got my appendix out I am at least familiar with how my body is going to feel afterwards if I had to get one and I recovered pretty well. But that first week was tough. So I can't imagine having a c-section and then having to take care of Wilson on top of that.
Luckily I have Andy and yes he is love to play his video games but I know when Wilson gets here, he will be Andy's top priority, and just because he has Wilson doesn't mean that his video games days are over. I'm sure there will be some sleepless nights where Andy will play with Wilson watching.
I myself have really slacked on my own video gaming. I used to pride myself on being a nerd gamer girl. Uber RPG nerd girl. Probably the nerdiest of the nerds. No not like dungeons and dragons but more like Final Fantasy. But I'm more old school than these new rpgs which are too action based for my tastes. But as of lately when I get home from work, the last thing I feel like doing is playing my games. I end up doing tons of online surfing about you guessed it! Baby stuff!
An exciting thing I am working on right now is pre addressing the announcements enevelopes for Wilson. I found a cute birth announcement on etsy and went ahead and bought them. I hope that I can get a nice picture of Wilson well techincally 3 nice pictures of him since it is a front and back annoucement. So I am going to need 3 pictures. There is a photographer in the hospital and if you walk around the Labor and Delivery floor you can see different pictures that he took on there.
Some of them were just soo cute! Just 8 more weeks hopefully!! Oh and belly picture at 32 weeks! HUGE!!