28 weeks and 3 days. Roughly 9 1/2 weeks left. Wow.
I completed another school year Friday and am so excited for this summer. There are so many things happening, yet so much time to relax at the same time.
Yesterday I had my first real gripe about being pregnant. The hip and tail bone pain is annoying, but I can deal; the pinched nerve is painful at times, but I can get over it. No, yesterday as I walked from one end of my house to another I was so winded that I felt like I had just jogged on a full stomach and wanted to pant like a dog to recover. My guess is I have a baby head or rump pushing up into my diaphram. After laying down and actually being able to breath it got better. I don't mind the painful things, I can get through those. I do mind being limited in my ability to walk 50 feet. That is not ok. Despite that I am still getting excited for the end of summer and the arrival of Cashew.
Pnut has 4 more days of school and then our journey for the summer begins. I love my kid, she is just a little stubborn sometimes, so I hope I can keep busy with her, but not wear myself out at the same time.
On Friday I also had my Rhogam shot. It is interesting to explain this to people because not all of them understand. Essentially it is a shot that prevents me from rejecting any foreign blood cells that may enter my system from the baby. Why is this necessary? Well, because I am Rh negative and D is Rh positive. If you remember science from school and if you remember punnent (?) squares for blood typing, they would show how two people with different blood types can have x,y,z types of children usually with a 4 square grid. Well, we had a 25% chance of having a child with positive Rh and that is what Pnut is. Now with Cashew we will see if he ends up with a positive or negative Rh at birth. If he is negative cool, if he is positive I get another shot. I get a little geeky with this because I think it is kind of cool. Especially when I tell people that both of my parents were Rh positive and I am the negative (or that 25% chance) child. D and I have 75% chance of having a Rh negative kid and Pnut was the 25% chance kid.
See completely geeky, ignore my moment. :) I will have interesting examples for middle school science.
My Rhogam is just another stepping stone to Cashew's arrival. Soon the appts every two weeks start, and then suddenly it will be Pnut's 6th birthday, and Cashew will be right around the corner. Oh, with D and my 10th anniversary thrown in there too. Lots to come this summer!
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