Due officially in three days - Tuesday 4 December. So anytime now!
Had a great night's sleep sans pre labour pains last night. I did take two panadol preventatively when I went to bed.
Thursday night was AWFUL. The most pain I had ever been in because I didn't know when it would end but I knew it wasn't real labour (back pain was too constant and the surges did not prgress). I almost wanted to go to hospital so I could get an epidural. Don't think they would have given me one given I wasn't in labour? If you read my birthing post as to how much I want to avoid a medicalised birth, you will realise how much pain and discomfort I was in to want an epidural. It went from 1am to about 4am. I spoke with a friend midwife the next day who explained that at night there is a hormone surge, which is why many babies are born at night.
I also loved the conversation about how babies are best born in the conditions in which they are often made. In the dark, with your beloved whispering in your ears and caressing your body, with silence or quiet music playing - where you are totally relaxed and in the moment, and totally out of your mind and into your physical self. Oh bring it on - I can't wait.
But this baby will be born when he is ready and not on any terms of mine!
This morning I went for a half hour work around the neighbourhood at just after 5am - the only time to walk in Brisbane in summer. As well as peering at and into everyone's houses and gardens, I admired the tropical flowers of Brisbane. They are so vivid and beautiful. My iphone's focus wasn't good enough for the high up frangipanis that I love (a deep reddy pink) or some of the bougainvilleas, but here are some I could capture.
For our wedding I had frangipanis scattered on my bridal table as well as in my bouquet. Even though they were very out of season, the florist, on the morning of the wedding, drove around Cairns and Palm Cove to find a late blooming tree. And, having said I couldn't really have frangipanis because they were out of season, she surprised me with hundreds on the table!
Labels: Birthing, flowers, pregnancy
