Monday, October 3, 2011

4

I still can hardly believe baby #4 is rapidly growing in my womb. (Really, this is precious babe #5, as we miscarried a baby between Leila & Nadia). Feeling so blessed. This new baby will be a change for us…the first baby born away from both sides of the family. There is the biggest gap in ages between our children with this baby. Libbs & Leila are 17 months apart, Leila & Nadia 16 months apart…and now this baby will be a whopping 3 years younger than Nadia! I wonder what that will be like : ).

And the biggest change will be the birth plan. We are planning a home birth this time around. I have been wanting to try a water birth ever since I had Liberty…and now I am getting my chance. We are feeling confident about our decision at this point. I am 8 1/2 weeks pregnant right now and we met with our midwives and doula for the first time today. They are great. My doula is a friend of mine here…she’s an OB nurse at the hospital as well and she just had her first baby (at home) in July. One of the midwives is my doula’s mother. Both midwives live about 2 hours from us…but that doesn’t really worry me because my friend & doula lives just minutes from us and she has delivered babies before. I am looking forward to attempting a water birth. And I’m excited about the opportunity to give birth in my own comfortable environment. (Lest you be worried about complications…which so far I haven’t had any complicated pregnancies or deliveries…the hospital is RIGHT behind our house!!). I also have another good friend here who had a home birth in August (a vbac, actually). Anyway…I’m really excited about this opportunity. Another plus…a home birth is wayyyy less expensive than a hospital birth AND our insurance will cover a big part of it. Woo hoo!

So far I am feeling pretty good. I am super super tired…but that’s probably not surprising since I have 3 little ones to care for and we are homeschooling…and there’s a baby growing inside of me. I feel nauseous on and off, but haven’t actually gotten sick yet. I especially feel nauseous after eating. Haven’t had a ton of cravings, but I have been craving salads…but not with lettuce…just fresh spinach. Yum! This is weird for me b/c with the girls I always craved junk, junk and more junk. I hope this keeps up. I have a hard time cooking dinner lately b/c nothing sounds good, haha! I want to try to start putting my dinners together before lunch…b/c after that I am wiped out.

The girls are really excited…especially Liberty. She’s really hoping for a brother. She loves to look at the pregnancy sections of the human body books we have and she tells everyone she can about the baby in mommy’s belly. Official due date from the midwives: May 12, 2012. Weird fact about that…all of my pregnancies have gone 7 or 8 days past my due date. 7 days past my current due date is May 19, 2012…the day my dad passed away in 2010. Mixed feelings there.

Anyway…here are a few pics of the girlies…

001Libbs. This girl is growing so much. She is learning to read now and doing well (what?!).

004Leila-bear. This cutie is going to be 4 (FOUR?!) on Saturday.

005Nonners (Nadia). Full of life and snuggles.

010These girls play so well together (most of the time). I love them dearly.

019There isn’t a lot of fall color changes out here like there is in the midwest/east. I miss that…

And a verse that has really been sticking with me lately…so much comfort and peace in this…speaking of Christ…

“He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”

Colossians 1:17 (NASB)

7 comments:

Mandy said...

What a sweet post! Congrats again. Love and miss you!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful fall picture! I love Fall!!

And congrats on the baby. I am not sure if I've said that yet. How exciting. Good luck with everything! I hope the home birth is amazing.
When's the due date?

KRunyon said...

Thanks for that verse Rebecca. I needed to hear that right now. So excited for you to try a home birth! You'll have to let me know how that goes. Glad to know that you are feeling half decent (mostly). :-)

Unknown said...

Exciting times! I'm impressed at your bravery in planning a home birth. I've always ended up with drugs, back labor with Maggie was more than I could imagine without drugs. But I'm always amazed how our bodies know exactly what to do, I felt like I was just along for the ride! I'm sure you'll do great and it will be an amazing accomplishment.

ruth said...

I love your quilt background on your blog...is it homemade? Hope your pregnancy goes well. Your girls are beautiful.

Rebecca said...

Thanks so much, everyone!

Ruth...The quilt background is something I found online. I have made 3 quilts of my own, though :)

Jamie...due date is May 12.

Stephanie Wilson she/her @babysteph said...

Oh, so exciting! I still DREAM about my home birth. It truly was miraculous.

My best to you!!

Steph