Thirty something.
I am thrilled to be 30 weeks along today! I’m 75% of the way to my due date and only 7 weeks away from the baby being full term, which is considered to be any time after 37 weeks. I will admit that 10 weeks still seems like a long time to go because I am so eager to meet this baby, but I have a feeling the next couple of months will go by quickly. September is almost halfway over already!
Last night I finished reading The Happiest Baby on the Block and now feel more prepared on how to handle our little dude’s crying. Of course I hope that we will have an easy going baby who hardly ever cries and sleeps like a champ, but it’s nice to feel like I have a clue as to what to do to calm him down if he is fussy. The book really could have been about a third as long as it was because the author likes to expand unnecessarily on things, but it was definitely a very informative read. Next up is The No Cry Sleep Solution, which is supposed to teach us ways to get our baby to sleep well without constantly holding him or letting him cry it out.
To further prepare for our little one, we have our newborn class this Saturday. It’s through our hospital, UCSF, and it’s called something like “Surviving the First Two Weeks with a Newborn.” I’m really looking forward to it and think it will be good for building our confidence that we are ready for this baby.
Yesterday I watched an episode of “House of Babies” that showed a mom with a breech baby who had to have a C-section instead of the natural delivery at a birth center like she wanted. Now I am afraid that our baby will be breech, although I have no reason to think that would be the case. My next appointment with the midwife is next Tuesday, and she should be able to palpate my belly and tell me the baby’s position at that point. Hopefully he will be head down! The last time we saw him was at 19 weeks and he was head down then, but I don’t think that really means anything because it was so early on. I can feel where he is in my belly now, but I don’t know what I’m feeling for so I can’t tell a head end from a tail end.
