39 Weeks

39 weeks and 5 days! Feeling good, energetic, excited, nervous and absolutely don't know what to expect. Lil Bobs will be here so soon. This will probably be my last pregnancy update - the last time you see this watermelon in place of my tummy, which I will miss dearly. Look out for baby updates coming soon :))))))))

38 Weeks

38 weeks and 5 days in this picture - almost 39 weeks and almost there! Bags are packed, nursery is set up, classes are finished and books read: we are all ready to go, but still have no idea what we are getting ourselves into :)

Lil Bobs is still not cooperating and remaining in a breech position, sometimes I think that his head is just glued to my upper abdomen, it makes no sense! I'm still not losing hope and continuing with all of the things to turn the baby. I've done lots of swimming lately and going for a hypnosis session on Friday. The research shows very high success rates, but then again it did for the other 65459876 methods I've tried.

I'm still working until next week, but planning to take a few extra days off before the due date, although most people think I'm quite hard core to work all the way up to the last days. I don't mind it, I'm actually feeling good and still quite mobile. I do walk sloooooooooowly, but other than that - no complaints.



Here is me what I do at the gym these days. I'm doing all of these crazy tilts to confuse the baby where up and down is! The decline bench is in the middle of the weight lifting area, so I get a lot of surprised looks from men pumping iron when I walk in.

And here is what our "nursery corner" looks like ;) Lil Bobs will sleep in our room for a little while, and hopefully he will feel cozy here!

37 Weeks - Turn baby, turn!

37 weeks on the dot! The fantastic news is that the baby is full term, which means that he should be fully baked by now and ready for the outside world, although there are 3 more weeks to go. We took this picture at midnight, exactly at the point when the new week started, so this is my excitement about Lil Bobs being full term :)

The not so fantastic news is that Lil Bobs is still breech, with his head up in my ribs and his bum down low. In this past week I've tried absolutely everything to turn him: acupuncture, exercises which involved inversions, tilts, hand stands, swiss ball exercises, hot/cold therapy, swimming, hand stands and flips in the water, hypnosis, tried talking to the baby begging him to move, Moxibustion (chineese medicine, involves burning Moxa close to my toes, supposed to have up to 90% success rate of turning breech babies). Even  the most ridiculous methods - playing music and shining a light near the bottom of my belly, because babies are naturally curious and are supposed to turn towards it (crazy!). Well, none of it really worked, he is just a little stubborn Bobs.

We also tried a procedure called ECV - External Cephalic Version, is when the doctors try to turn the baby manually by applying pressure on the belly externally. I was a but nervous about it, since there are risks. After looking at the scan, the doctor said there is only a 10-20% chance of it working based on the position lil Bobs is in, he gave it a go for a few minutes - ouchie! - and it didn't work. So...we are most likely looking at a c-section, unless a miracle happens before that! Really not thrilled at the prospect of it, because we were gearing up for a completely natural hypnobirth, but that's one of the first examples that kids are so unpredictable and throw your plans off! :) This is the position he is in at the moment.