31 Weeks with Clarity

 Here I am…reaching 31 weeks.  For those with a rusty memory, my kids were born at this point in each pregnancy: 40 weeks, 37 weeks, 36 weeks, and 39 weeks.  The boys were the 2 early ones.  They apparently thought it was a race.

Although I certainly do not want another baby born preterm, I realized that if this were Elias, I’d only be 5 weeks from giving birth.  That would be a bummer this time around because my midwife is only allowed to attend my birth if I make it to 37 weeks since she handles low-risk patients.  Plus, with Elias who was born at 36 weeks, even though he handles colds much better now than he did, he still handles any sickness much worse than any of the other kids.  So at least 6 more weeks is the goal, and that’s still really soon!!

I’m thinking 38 weeks for this baby would round out those previous numbers well.  I totally wouldn’t be surprised if I went overdue this time.  I seem to be due some over-due-ness.  I’m really not wanting to have this baby on Christmas, though.  Everyone says she looks like she’s dropped, but she hasn’t.  I haven’t had a full breath in about 2 weeks, so if you see me winded, that’s why.  Her little head has been up still, but I think last night she turned head down finally.  Whether or not she’ll stay head down is a different speculation altogether.  She’s been in somersault mode.

I thought we had settled on a girl’s name.  I really did.  I started calling her by that name, until one day Knut heard me refer to her by that name.  Apparently he thought we were settled on a name as well, although a different name.  (I had resigned to his favorite, and he had resigned to my favorite, and when we both realized that the other person was willing to go with our own favorite name, we have taken up our original favorites with greater fervor, and further away from deciding a name to begin with.)

This is also a sneaky post, showing a sneak peek at my new Clarity Cardigan pattern that is now finished, written, and with my tech editor.  It’s not a maternity sweater, though, so it’s not laying properly on me.  Hopefully I’ll get it on someone without a baby bump this week for a photo shoot.  I asked a senior in high school at our church to model it for me this week, as she’s just about my size, although a foot taller or so.  While she said yes, I’m finding that getting an appointment with a senior is pretty tricky scheduling!  They are very busy people!  I’m hoping to have everything finalized for it by the end of next week.

These are not the final pictures, but they’re a peek.  I’m loving wearing this thing.  I should probably be disciplined and keep it nice and pretty for some events coming up like the party at my local yarn store.  It’s going to be hard, though.