We made it! That was the rule that I set out for baby - it was not allowed to come before today, as after 37 weeks a baby is considered full term, so as of today, it is allowed to come whenever it is ready. The only issue is whether or nor we'll be ready... Some days it feels just fine and other days I think 'AHHHH!! We're not ready!' I don't feel an overwhelming need for it to be over or to meet baby - I want it to come in due time and I'm pretty okay with that. I am starting to feel uncomfortable and exceedingly tired, but still am quite happy and feel pretty good. The hardest thing is just getting comfortable sometimes, especially as I am obeying midwives' orders to spend time leaning forward to make sure that the baby does not descend spine-on-spine, which I naturally want to avoid. Supposedly posterior babies were pretty unheard of in the past, but nowadays we spend so much time sitting in chairs (as opposed to on hands and knees or tipped forward cleaning, milking etc) that it has become much more common. Needless to say, I would like to avoid back labour, so I'm spending lots of time working on that. I've been doing yoga, but can't do it as long or as vigourously as I could even two weeks ago. We're pretty much ready, we're packed for all the eventualities and we just wait now and see how it all goes!
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