Today was the day!

Today my beautiful daughter was born!  12:10 pm I gave birth to her submerged in a birth tub surrounded by my family and friends!  It was an amazing experience!  Today was a great day!  I will post more soon! I am sleepy and need to rest! BTW photos will be posted at some point! xoxo thank to all!

June 20th

Well it's 5:15 am and I have been resting since around 11 last night.  Well at least been doing the best I can to rest.  Contractions are still coming at pretty regular intervals but with trying to rest it's hard to time them. I just looked at my timer and I realized that i must have dozed off cause it told me I had an 34 min contraction. WEll darn!  Try again!  They are closer and more productive than they have been yet.  I am not particularly found of being having contractions allllllllll night but will take what I get and make the best of it.  I am still breathing and melting through each contraction, but am finding it hard to relax my hips and low back like I need to. But I am still trying.  It is all going to be great and I know within the next 3-4 hours our house will smell of cake and not long after that it will have the fresh sound of our crying little girl! More updates to come as I can! :0)

Happy Father's Day!

Ok so yesterday I was pretty tired all day. So I took a nap later in the day and then went to bed early.  I had some contractions yesterday but nothing too consistent to be concerned about.  Now today is a different story all together.  Started the day off GREAT!  I made potato salad and headed to my sisters around one this afternoon. The morning by the way was pleasant, my children cooperated and I was smiling, dancing and having them help me with my chores.  We headed to out on a great note and the day just followed along!  We had a blast at our cookout and got to spend the whole day with family and friends.  Too fun!! The kids went swimming and most of the adults went too.  However I was not going into water that was that cold!  Not to mention I was uncertain of how cold water would go with my contractions. They started this morning and just stuck around all afternoon. They were at first every 12-15 minutes then moved up to about every 6 minutes.  Then they did a bit of both.  One would be 11min, then 6 then 8 then 22. So random, but more intense than the other night.  Breathing and relaxing through each one is working for me.   So that's were I am now, just getting ready to get a shower and relax for the night. I just saw my dear Douala friend and talked to her for a minute.  Who knows this little one might arrive tonight! We will wait and see what happens next!  I will keep you all informed!

BTW

A donation update! To date my wonderful readers have helped us to raise another $80 for our midwives!!! A huge THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has donated, it really truly means so much to me!!
xxoxoxoxoxoxo from me to you!

June 17th and into the night

Well once again today I was a ball of emotions!  Things are getting to me so much faster than I really wish they would.  Oh well things have got to get done and someone has to do them!
The day started out really rough and then as the day went on things got better. I took the kids on a trip to the library, which we didn't even go in. They chose to not go in and so I just dropped the books in the slot. Well  at least the over due ones are back where they belong.  After that we traveled over to Subway for some lunch. Thanks goodness for subway reward points, cause if not I wouldn't have eaten!  We hung out for sometime, the kids had packed their own little lunch boxes to take with us. They ate those along with sharing a pizza.  They had a good time I think and so did I. Sometimes it's just nice to get out of the house for a bit. I had planned on taking them to the park after lunch, but walking to the van I realized that it was way to hot out for me and my little girl was in desperate need of a nap. Which is exactly what she did when  we got home. I was thankful for those 2 hours that she slept, she was acting up like crazy!  Anyway! Daddy got home and he took the kids out back for a bit and let mommy have some quiet time. Which I most definitely needed!  We made dinner and took a walk. During our walk was when I started having contractions. Before and during the walk I was planning a after dinner surprise for my kiddos.  Things worked out and we went swimming after they ate all their vegis and their fish and vegi nuggets.  We took them swimming for about an hour and I got to visit with a friend whom is prego at this time as well and due any day now.  Swimming brought about more contractions!  We all had a great time swimming and it was a much needed pick me up for my day!  My thanks go out to my dear friend who let us tag along to her swimming evening!  The contractions continued on the way home and still going now. About every 8 minutes for the longest time and now they are spacing out a bit more.  I have yet to feel the urge to sleep, mainly because sleeping is really so uncomfortable for me. I have just been doing a lot of relaxing. Oh yeah I ended up taking a mirror and a henna cone a retracing my belly henna. It doesn't look spot on but hey what do you expect from trying to trace it with a mirror image. I am absolutely terrible at that, I still have issues curling my hair the right way in the mirror.
We will have to see if the contractions continue through out the morning, but for now it's off to get some rest if I can.

Well here we are agian...

Ok so it's the end of day four past due and today has been a busy one.  We ran errands before the midwives arrived today and arrived back at home just as my primary had arrived.  My (mother-in law) bought me some oils today to make a couple of labour room mists.  This is something I am going to try and get done before I go to bed.  The day was a good one over all.  I think my body is trying to tell me that it won't be too long now because while making dinner I became REALLLY tired.  So then I ate and laid down for the evening.  Now that I am up I still feel tired and have plans on hitting the bed real soon.  Everything is ready to go here and my midwives have decided that we are ready when she is.  To be honest my primary is too funny.  They came for a visit and just kinda hung out for a bit.  SO I concluded that they were waiting around with hopes that my water would break, and she agreed that that would suit her fine.  From my house her drive time is about 2 hours depending on traffic and with it being summer and road construction happening it is a bit longer now.  Then my secondary lives an hour away but the road construction is effecting her drive time too.   After our apt they both met up with another local midwife for dinner and called me when they were done to see if there was any progress. I was sad to report that nothing had really changed and they would have to wait a bit longer.  I do have to say that i think it is kinda funny that everyone is getting a bit anxious for her arrival. My family are so amazing, they call and check on me all the time to make sure that they know what is happening now. My mom is concerned she will be in Toledo when I go into labour and my dad and step mom are heading to marietta too this weekend.  I wish I could help them feel more at ease about whether they will be able to be there or not, but I just don't have any answers for them.  Another thing that I find is funny is that I keep being asked if anyone has any idea of how much longer till she arrives.  I just say no that there is no real way of telling that at this point.  SO you all know as much as I do.  I am off to bed for the night, I will be in touch soon. Take care everyone!

The night time....

Well today has been a rough day. To  be honest the last 2 days I have been an emotional roller-coaster of a person.  Today was worse though.  I am trying so hard to stay level headed all the time but to be honest it's not that easy.  I have to say how thankful I am for my amazing man!  He rolls with my moods so well and helps me out even when I am having a day where I just am not as greatful as I should be.  I love my life and the people I share it with.  They make me so proud. That said I do wish that sometimes I was able to convey my needs better. I am the type of person to push on and not ask for help no matter what. Even being 9+months pregnant I still have a REALLY hard time asking for help with really anything.  It has a lot to do with how I was raised. I am proud to say that I am a strong woman, but I am not so proud to say I need to work on sharing the responsibilities of life in general.
Ok now off to a baby, or lack there of baby up date.  So today was a regular day (minus the mood swings) with no real changes in condition for labour.  Tonight I started having contractions around 8 and they have come and gone off and on since then.  I am just rolling with it knowing that they are doing the job they are supposed to.  So not much has changed except it's late and I am off to get some rest.  Who knows labour tomorrow and delivery soon to follow! I will keep you posted! :0)