33 Weeks and counting!

Well, how can you not count when it gets this close? It seems that the time is racing by at this point, although it is still almost two months yet to go, so technically lots of time, but I have a feeling it can easily get away from you! We are just getting ready as best we can. I am feeling very good, although I noticed last week that I do not seem to be able to do the things I could even a week before that. It is a hard adjustment for me to say, not be able to go as deep into a yoga pose as I usually can, or bend over and fill the cat's water dish. I have to remind myself often that things aren't 'usual', that there is indeed a new normal that has to be acknowledged - I am more than 8 months pregnant and that necessarily involves some adjustments in what I can do. I really have felt wonderful and it has been really nice to go out to auditions or to Tracy's birthday party yesterday and have people say that I look beautiful, I guess pregnancy looks good on me, which is a wonderful thing to think. I was always worried I'd be one of those bloated, fat rotund wobblers, but it seems not to be the case, so I guess lucky me! The worst complaint I have had is the incessant insomnia, but I suppose my body is preparing for having to be up in the night with the baby, so I suppose it comes with the territory. I firmly believe that the body knows what to do so I trust it as best I can and am using that as my guide for labour as well.

I felt bad after my semi-rant of last week after the hospital tour, as the last thing I mean to do is sound sanctimonious, particularly since I, of course, have yet to actually experience labour, so what the hell do i really know? However, I continue to feel very well-read and well-informed and I trust in the experience and expertise of my mid-wifery team and in my strength and resolve as a woman. I feel confident in the decisions we are making about this birth and I welcome the opportunity to give birth in a environment that will soothe me while undergoing this massive life-altering experience. I feel empowered by the thought of being the only one able to birth this child into being and I really feel positively about my intentions for the birth. Certainly I know from the wedding (our beautiful nightmare) that things don't always do as planned and I am certainly no fool, but I'm going in with best-case scenario thoughts, definitely.

Life has been busy of late, with many voice auditions and a gig as 'Mindy Mint Chocolate Chip' of Yummi-land's soon to be famous (www.yummi-land.com) Ice Cream Pop Girls. It was tremendous fun to go into the studio and record this sugar-sweet little voices for the up-coming DVD (and, fingers crossed, animated series!) and it was wonderful for me to see the little prototype doll they had there of here. The dolls are seriously sweet and so cute, I think they'll be a hit and it was very cool to finally be a doll. One more thing to check off the list. I even had an audition as a pregnant wife for a movie this week, so that would be a fun thing to do before baby comes and something for posterity, no doubt. I feel good, I'm getting excited about the baby shower that Chrislana, Deirdre and Marsha are throwing for us on the 3rd of March and I feel really excited that before too too long we will get to meet this lovely little soul who is our destiny to raise. Good times!