I am 32 weeks pregnant this week! Holy Cow is it all starting to feel REAL. I don’t want to say I’ve been in denial, because that comes with a kind of negative connotation, but I seriously feel like I haven’t even fully grasped the fact that in a few weeks we will have another baby in our lives. It’s mind blowing, scary, exciting, nerve-wracking, joyful… you name it and at some point I’ve probably felt it.
We are trying to get settled into our new house in Lexington. If you’re just joining us here on my blog (where have you been? I’ve been keeping a blog for 15+ years!) you won’t be able to go back and read everything and catch up because I’ve made all previous posts private — Ben’s working for the government now, higher up, so I’ve got to keep some aspects of our life private from all of the lurkers who read this đŸ™‚
Anyway, our house in Buena Vista, Colorado is for sale and we’ve moved to Lexington for a new leadership / higher up role for Ben. No more private practice for him. We arrived in the dead of winter and holy moly does this winter we came into easily rival an Alaskan winter. COLD COLD COLD. Bitter cold. I am absolutely frozen when I walk outside, way too cold to go for a walk (think humid 10-30 + breeze/wind many days) but thankfully after living in Colorado / Alaska since 2009 I do tend to embrace winter, and feel it’s a time for reflection and rest. I’ll make it through – not without being worried how cold next winter will be though! (Kidding).
Back to baby– I finally started going through all of the baby things we received/used/didn’t use for Archie, washing newborn and 0-3 month clothing, and fine tuning my registry. We are not having a baby shower (it saddens me that we only got one baby shower, which was just a small amount of people due to many having to cancel because of Covid- it was Delta Variant 2021 era- and sometimes I feel robbed of that experience that so many women talk about. My aunt, Thaera, put on the most beautiful baby shower and I’m so thankful I got that experience. I just wish my aunts and grandma would have made it. My Big Noni had Covid at the time… and she recently passed away at 84. I never got to experience that with her. She would have had such a nice time. She was so social and just would have loved it. And my other Noni had such bad dementia at the time, I never got to celebrate having a baby with her. Her mind was already mostly gone. Sometimes, it just makes me sad to reflect on that. She was so excited for me to get married and have babies. Sadly, her dementia took her mind before we could enjoy and of that together. Brain diseases are the worst.
This time around no baby shower, no shower by written mail, nada. If you want to help support the arrival of our third and final baby and Archie and Emery’s little brother, you can click here: https://my.babylist.com/jenn-cook-baby-registry
For the next weeks I’ll focus on trying to cook some healthy meals for postpartum for the freezer (I eat super specific in postpartum), attend the chiropractor to make sure baby is head down and ready to go, and then just prep as best as I can for a possible VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Ceserean). I met with a provider who agrees with a VBAC attempt, so long as baby actually comes around my due date! She ideally would like him to arrive before Week 40. As you know, Archie never came on his own at all, was naturally induced at 41+5 or so, and we know how that played out (C-Section after heart decels that wouldn’t stop & he wasn’t even in the birth canal after so long of pushing – the consensus was that he had shoulder dystocia because of my high pain level despite having minimal pain with Emery’s vaginal birth). If you’re a prayer, please play this baby comes on time so that I do not have to endure another c-section.
That’s all for now. We’re prepping for snowmageddon over here in KY so I’ve got to get back to unpacking and readying our house for a possible prolonged power outage. Really, really hoping that does not happen! But if it does…. what a welcome to City Living đŸ˜‰ Life is nothing if not interesting!
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