Weeks 35 & 36

Tonight as I walked through the line at a funeral visitation I was reminded of how precious life is.  As I hugged the young mother who held her three year old daughter in her arms just days ago as she slipped away to be with Jesus, she touched my stomach and said, “I’m so happy to see this new life you’re carrying.”  Talk about pulling at your heart strings.  Something about going to this visitation being pregnant in the first place just didn’t feel quite right to me, but I felt like God was nudging me and telling me it would be ok.  I left the visitation that night just feeling confused and full of questions.  God how could you make this mother so strong?  In her sorrow, how could she be so happy for me and this life that I am carrying?  God why me?  Why am I so blessed to be anticipating the birth of a child any day, yet this family is mourning the sudden loss of their precious three year old daughter?  I know the Lord holds all children in His arms and He has a plan for each of them, but tonight I just say thank you Lord!  Thank you for blessing me with this precious life we anxiously await.  We never know how long our children will be with us and when He will choose to take them home to be with Him; so cherish the times you have with them and thank God for each moment He gives you.

Currently I am 36 weeks along.  Yes, the countdown is on now.  I think I can officially say I am starting to get somewhat uncomfortable, but I try to take it easy and rest as when I can (Charlie would probably say otherwiseJ).  This past Saturday night I actually wondered if maybe “tonight was the night”.  I woke up at about 11:15 p.m. with hard contractions.  My whole stomach just got as hard as a rock and I mean the whole thing.  I felt like I couldn’t roll over or even boost myself up in bed.  I just laid there as they came and went and finally I got up as I was just too uncomfortable.  I went and sat in the chair in the living room for awhile as they came in went and eventually started timing them as I was getting nervous that maybe “this was it,” but they just seemed too inconsistent.  Some would last a few seconds others would last maybe a minute or so, and they’d be anywhere from say five minutes apart to 10-25 minutes apart.  So I tried not to get too worked up.  Finally around 2:30 a.m. I felt like they had subsided and I could maybe try lying back down in bed again.  Thankfully I was able to get a few more hours of sleep in before church.  I guess its good I now have the bags packed for the hospital because really it could be any day now! 

Well I hope you all have a great rest of the week.  Here are a few updated baby bump pics: