7/14/10 - 38 Weeks!

38 Weeks today! Olivia was born at 38 weeks 6 days…maybe this will be my lucky week!!! According to everything I read, there really aren’t any risks to a baby born at 38 weeks, so I feel completely relaxed and ready to go. I’m still feeling really well…I don’t feel overly uncomfortable, super huge or anything like that. The worst is definitely at night. It takes forever to get comfortable, but I finally will and baby will settle in. Of course I then wake up a couple hours later and need to shift, only baby has different ideas and refuses to join in the shifting. Now that is a bit painful, I will admit, but if that’s the worst of it, I will definitely take it.

I updated on most everything yesterday. I’m feeling emotionally better today. I’ve heard a few positive stories about quick progression since my appointment, so that has helped. I just have to have faith that all of my hard work will pay off and I’ll finally get to experience the natural birth I didn’t get last time! I want to be a positive success story for fellow c-section mom’s, nervous about going for a VBAC. I want to have that pride in myself, knowing that I did it. I don’t want the incredible emotional let-down I had after my last c-section. I don’t want to “heal” and “recover” rather than play with my toddler and snuggle and care for my newborn. I want my body to just do what it is supposed to do! So, now we just wait…and wait. And HOPE! 3 weeks, although I still don’t think that is a lot of time, in the world of babies and pregnancy, a lot really can happen in 3 weeks, so I will focus on that!