I have 5 weeks left....

well, here i am...round, round, round. with 5 weeks left (give or take a couple).

Lately my back pain has diminished, praise God. Occassionally the baby is too much on my right side, with it's little back stretching me out out out and causing pain. but i just have to lean over a table in a good stretch and wiggle my hips and gravity seems to help move wee babe to a more pleasant spot.

i know, funny mind picture....wiggle wiggle wiggle. it works though, okay! so stop laughing at me! :) hhaaha.

Anyway. Dave and I have decided to have this baby at home. As long as everything goes along well we will be allowed to, and so far my 'track record' says we will be fine candidates for a home birth. yipppee.

The Midwifery services here are excellent. The hospital keeps them under such tight restrictions regarding the patients that i know we are in really good hands. (None of the midwives want to make any poor decisions that could get them shut down i suppose. ) It is silly when i think about it, midwives are seen as the MAIN caregivers of pregnant women in so many other countries, such as the Netherlands, yet here they are not trusted like a regular doctor would be. I LOVE the care we receive from them.

My midwife is Isabelle, a dear sweet mother of two girls with a delightful back-to-the-earth apeal to her. (no wonder i like her eh? haha) Just yesterday she was telling me about the wonderful herbal bath that she and Dawn (my secondary midwife) will make for the baby and I after the birth. They light some candles, clean the house and leave a couple hours after the baby is born. Sounds just lovely, no?

So that is the latest i suppose.

Dave is off playing table tennis right now and then we will spend an evening of family time together. yep. nothing too exciting. just simple life. i love it.