Home is where the Heart Is...

The Heart Moniter that is!

Since my last post I have been admitted to the hospital twice more, (for the same contractions), and just went to my 37 week checkup with my doctor yesterday. I am yet again on my way up there this morning to get the baby turned around. And if I get contractions, all the better because then I could be delivering my child today, and be done with the last two crazy weeks.

Sometimes I wonder just how much strain a person can take? But let me tell you it's still all very exciting! Depsite having had a rough two weeks, I am so chuffed at the possibility of getting induced and having little Rose in our home. It's amazing how your body responds to these things, and even as recent as last night I was in agony, it is now a distant memory and I am rejoicing in a lot of good things that have happened in my little life sphere.

So let me recap a bit of the highlights and lowlights of the weeks.
The lowest part besides me bumping around from one hospital visit to the next, is that I neglected my poor hampster and it has given up the ghost. It's not surprising we forgot about her as so many people have been in my household this last week and we just didnt have the proper instructions to feed/take care of our hampster. What's really heartbreaking is how upset it was for my husband since it was his birthday present a year ago. And how my 18 month old walks around the house going "Hah-haze" repeatedly. This is how she said the hampster's name: Hazel. She really enjoyed that little critter. But this is life, and when you have very little support for taking care of your daughter, it's hard to remmeber to take care of a rodent too.

Anyways, the high points have been finishing my counselling sessions and the amount of good it has done for my relationships with all my family members. I won't go into the gritty details, but, my father's side of the family did inflict some serious personal mental/emotional/physical scars on me, and they needed to be delt with. Now they are and I can't express my gratitude to God for this maricle in my life. I thought I'd be harboring anger and resentment until my last breath about it all.

The other really great news is the bridges that I had so worried I had burned with my mother are actually almost repaired. So not only have I almost completely fixed all past personal problems with my father, but I'm well on my way to having a stress free relationship with my mother! Not only that, she's wanting us to move back to America to help her with business endeavors. Which unfortunatly would take another post entirely to talk about and suss out all the details. So I won't bore you here, but we are seriously considering it.

The other highlight, and the biggest one of course is all the medical good news I'm having about this pregnancy. My Version as stated before is today, Alex is on early Paternity leave, and the arrival of a new child all on it's own is the best news I could have. Even if the version doesnt work, they will schedule me for a last resort c-section on the 7th of december. Because of my other health problems it would be safter for the baby to be delivered this way than breach and vaginal.

So here I am, nervous as anything to go in today, and hoping that if I am admitted it's because I have a little girl in my arms, not because I'm going to go home empty handed. My husband will be on-call all day should I find out I need him to rush up to be part of the delivery. So now it's just a few more hours of "wait and see". Aren't you excited too? :D We're going to have another little baby!