Only two weeks left and the waiting is nerve-wracking!
Routine sits in and I spend days awaiting Delivery Day - D Day!
Let's see ---
Daily/weekly activities:
Massaging perineum with Weleda massage oil and nipples and areola with Lansinoh for 5 mins everyday- check!
Practising holding my breath, blowing up my belly like a balloon and then pushing real hard with my abdos for 1 minute with 20 secs intervals everyday- check!
Going over in my mind everything that the midwife told us - check!
Like how to recognise that bébé is finally ready to come and that I should go to the hospital:
Bloody show - not yet!
Water works (water breaking) - not yet!
Terrible and consistent contractions - not the real ones !
No movements from bébé - nope, lots of it!
Wondering if today will be the day - check!
Took big cousin Andrea's advice and got Fay to buy me Infacol in London (for collic)- check!
Listen to CDs everyday that I will take with me for D Day: 1. Baby's favourite lullabys (with my favourite song, Hush l'il baby, don't say a word), 2. Classical music for babies 3. Bob Marley 4. Slows of the century and 4. Jamaica Time (with my favourite songs being "Oh, Cherry oh Cherry oh Baby", "Play de music" and "What a Bam Bam") - check!
Alot of "RE" :
REchecking my list of things to take to the hospital - check!
REpacking my bags - check!
REvising my list - check!
REviewing the list of ambulances to call - check!
REcleaning apartment - check!
RE-reading my books on pregnancy, delivery, breastfeeding and the arrival of bébé - check!
RE-educating Gee (by leaving random books on pregnancy open at strategic pages) -check!
Weekly urine tests that demand acrobatic skills for aiming into a little cup and getting it all over the place every time - check!
Weekly monitoring of bébé's heartbeat and movements that lasts 30 mins - check!
Aqua gym - check!
Sunday walks with Gee - check!!
Wondering what bébé will look like, how he or she will be: footballer? musician? dancer? - CHECK!
