All is well in Kristinaville. Mya is doing great and despite my discomfort, I am not in labor. Darn smile. I have to have NST every week and starting next week I have to be seen twice a week because of the cerclage and the GD. I’m nesting like a mad woman now and trying to get things situated. There is so much to do and NO time. I think I am going to start a business. I am not sure of the name but the slogan would be “We do the nesting so you can do the resting!” LOL.
My in-laws threw me a hell of a baby shower on Saturday. It was amazing and tiring and overwhelming, but most importantly, it was filled with love. If you have been reading my blog you know that my mother and I have a less-than-perfect relationship. We have not spoken since before Christmas because she has been very unsupportive of, well, everything I do. however, despite my toxic relationship with her, I have been missing her. I want us to have a good relationship. I want Mya to experience the best of my mother- the woman from my pre-teen years who loved to spend time with me and who encouraged me to be the best that I could be. I thought that woman was amazing but somewhere along the way that woman was lost. But at my shower, that woman was alive and well. My mother came to my baby shower and hugged me the way a mother is supposed to hug her child. It was great. She wants to be a part of my life. She wants to be a part of my daughter’s life. And more importantly, I want to let her. In fact when I awoke Sunday morning I made sure to call her and to thank her for coming to the shower. I want this to be the start of a new relationship for us. Hopefully it will be.
Now for the good stuff. Mya will be well taken care of once she is born. We received so many gifts that we needed two Ford Explorers in order to get everything home. I was getting nervous because we had absolutely nothing for her. But now I feel like we’re ready for a baby although we now have to clean. I’m getting the nesting bug, so that shouldn’t be too difficult to finsih by the end of the week. I getting excited and nervous and very emotional about labor but I know everything will be fine.
Sunday was our very last Lamaze class. Unfortunately I spent the last two hours of the class in Labor and Delivery. We were doing a tour of the maternity ward (a very thorough one) and I begn to feel very hot and dizzy. Turns out I was dehydrated and was having some uterine cramping. All is good though and Mya is doing well. I tell you the baby shower was great, but I gonna spend a week recovering. LOL.
