36
weeks yesterday! The most remarkable thing about this pregnancy so far is how
easy it’s been, even compared to my pregnancy with Aftasie. I haven’t had any
carpal tunnel, minimal hip pain while sleeping (although it’s a little worse
during the day, I think), and I just feel good. My feet haven’t swollen yet,
either, although some of my shoes seem kind of snug. It’s getting a wee bit
harder to sleep but it’s not from any particular discomforts, I just can’t seem
to settle down. I’m getting practice contractions here and there but if
anything, they’ve lessened, and they aren’t as intense as they have been in the
past few months. I can also hold a full bladder of pee! :D
I’m
sure I can be plenty uncomfortable in the next 4 weeks but I’m just grateful
for what I have right now. I am looking forward to doing full yawns instead of
this uncomfortable, gasping type of yawn (I just can’t get the air in!).
I’m
trying to figure out how to make a cheesecake that will be ready to eat after
the baby comes! I think it would be good for about a week in the fridge, but I
don’t want to wait too late, either. Maybe I’ll just have the ingredients on
hand and start on it when I think I might be in labor. Haha. I don’t know if
that’s going to work. I can imagine myself not able to finish it. I need to
print out detailed instructions so someone else can finish it while I deliver
the baby :P
The
midwife brought the birth pool and some of her bags yesterday to leave with us.
Super exciting. I’m actually hoping the baby will be late, because it would
work better with school, but who knows!
School
– eh, school is fine. Lots of busy work. I think I prefer lecture, test,
lecture, test. It’s mostly smaller assignments, presentations, papers etc. Plus
tests. But mostly easier ones. Kind of annoying. We are now 8 weeks into the semester so I’m
finishing up my public health rotation at hospice and will be starting a 7 week
rotation in maternity next week. And after that comes winter break! Next
semester I have an 8 week rotation in mental health and then an 8 week rotation
at the hospital doing a preceptorship, which as far as I understand involves
working more or less independently undert the supervision and guidance of a
nurse. I have 1.5 semesters left before I’m done! Pretty exciting. I’ll be
relieved once I get past maternity and actually get all of my hours in for that
class. I’m pretty sure we have 135 hours of clinicals due in each class, which
works out to be about 16-20 hours each week. There are various things other
than being on site that count as hours, such as lab, extra classes, etc.
