I feel so bad about whining so much. My braxton hicks get stronger and stronger as time passes and I can only assume that my body is going to be MORE than ready to go when it's time. I really do mean to be pleasant and lovely like a princess but I feel like I am being a spoiled rotten princess just whining and complaining about the wait for something that I already have, not unlike a child wanting to open a birthday or Christmas present beforehand.
Well, here is the thing. This goes against my faith, my belief structure and while it goes with the undercurrent of flesh that I am battling, it goes against the very core of who I am in Christ The words of Paul tell us to allow the Spirit overcome the flesh and what I am feeling is Romans 7:15 For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
So, pray for me. I don't want to beat myself up over being whiny and I don't want to allow the enemy to creep in. This is an AMAZING time in my life and the last time I will have a whole person living in my tummy....I should by all rights, be enjoying it and not overlooking the blessing of carrying a child.
(but also pray that she comes like today, tonight or early this week because Austin is away next weekend from Friday to Sunday afternoon and I just asked him if he'd be sad if she came while he was away. He said yes, then (this is the funny part) I said, "oh good, I was just making sure we were on the same page." Then we laughed....
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Another great blogger to add to our community!
Recently I stumbled upon an old friend on Facebook. Some of you know and love her already but I wanted to share her blog with the resta' ya because her style is much the same as all of ours. Yesterday, I read her new one and asked her if she would be okay if I blogged about her. Without further adieu, click here to visit Antinozzi Adventures where Alex shares her views on all the stuff of her life :)
And now a funny.
Samuel has started Beavers this year. Our group at Willingdon Church is totally committed to keeping with the original God centred guidelines passed down through the generations from Baden Powell and I couldn't be happier with the promises and mottos that the Scouting program instills into each boy in our group. Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Ventures and Rovers all have their own Motto, Promise and Law to memorize. The Beaver law is: I promise to love God and help take care of the world. I read the promise to Sam and then asked him if he could say it back to me. He said this back: "I promise to love God and take over the world."
And now a funny.
Samuel has started Beavers this year. Our group at Willingdon Church is totally committed to keeping with the original God centred guidelines passed down through the generations from Baden Powell and I couldn't be happier with the promises and mottos that the Scouting program instills into each boy in our group. Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Ventures and Rovers all have their own Motto, Promise and Law to memorize. The Beaver law is: I promise to love God and help take care of the world. I read the promise to Sam and then asked him if he could say it back to me. He said this back: "I promise to love God and take over the world."
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Contractions are not always what they seem to be.
The first kind of contraction that we learn as English speaking people is to take two words and make them into one. I do not want to go into detail because I don't want to bore the non grammar lovers. I find it ironic that I enjoy speaking without contractions but today I want to blog about contractions in the medical sense.
Braxton Hicks contractions are named for the doctor who "discovered" them. They are described as:
Braxton Hicks are described as:
The nurses at the hospital, when a prego momma is hooked up to a fetal monitor calls them "tightenings". have been putting up with them since my second trimester but since week 35 they have been increasing in frequency, intensity and pain every time they start up. As inconsequential as they seem to be they actually (for me anyway) do make things happen as they do the work of making the baby go down and sort of training the uterus to do it's job of contracting when the time is right.
Contractions need a few hormones: oxytocin is what makes the contraction happen and protaglandins are what make the cervix soft enough to open and disappear as the contractions get stronger, pushing the baby down into the birth canal. Why do I know all this without even having to think about it?
I have been reading and reading and studying and studying documents, other mom's comments about contractions, pictures and diagrams of the anatomy, edumacating myself on the subject which makes it that much more likely that I will understand when it happens for real.
NOT!
My title says it all, contractions are not always what they seem to be...
There are also so many things that people say can bring them on but it seems that it really does all boil down to timing.
With all of that said, I will add that I am sitting here with my belly going rock hard every 10 minutes and causing pain in my back and making my eyeballs pop out just praying that they go mega painful because experience and now some edumacation has taught me that I will KNOW when its the real deal.
So along with my prayers for a hurry up and let me see my baby, I do ask for this one too (which is why my house got cleaned by yours truly)
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the patience to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Braxton Hicks contractions are named for the doctor who "discovered" them. They are described as:
Braxton Hicks are described as:
- Irregular in intensity
- Infrequent
- Unpredictable
- Non-rhythmic
- More uncomfortable than painful
- They do not increase in intensity, or frequency
- They taper off and then disappear altogether
The nurses at the hospital, when a prego momma is hooked up to a fetal monitor calls them "tightenings". have been putting up with them since my second trimester but since week 35 they have been increasing in frequency, intensity and pain every time they start up. As inconsequential as they seem to be they actually (for me anyway) do make things happen as they do the work of making the baby go down and sort of training the uterus to do it's job of contracting when the time is right.
Contractions need a few hormones: oxytocin is what makes the contraction happen and protaglandins are what make the cervix soft enough to open and disappear as the contractions get stronger, pushing the baby down into the birth canal. Why do I know all this without even having to think about it?
I have been reading and reading and studying and studying documents, other mom's comments about contractions, pictures and diagrams of the anatomy, edumacating myself on the subject which makes it that much more likely that I will understand when it happens for real.
NOT!
My title says it all, contractions are not always what they seem to be...
There are also so many things that people say can bring them on but it seems that it really does all boil down to timing.
With all of that said, I will add that I am sitting here with my belly going rock hard every 10 minutes and causing pain in my back and making my eyeballs pop out just praying that they go mega painful because experience and now some edumacation has taught me that I will KNOW when its the real deal.
So along with my prayers for a hurry up and let me see my baby, I do ask for this one too (which is why my house got cleaned by yours truly)
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the patience to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
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