I know the little time keeper on this blog says that I have 5 weeks until my due date, but if the past is an indicator, I actually have 2-3 weeks until #7 makes her debut.\u00a0 When I was at this point of pregnancy with my other babies, I couldn\u2019t wait for the day to arrive.\u00a0 I repeatedly told the little guys that they were being evicted and they needed to \u201cget out now!\u201d<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t feel that way with this baby at all.\u00a0 Perhaps it is because we have been so busy with moving, settling in and life that my focus has been on things other than being pregnant which hasn\u2019t made it seem unbearably long.\u00a0 It could be that she\u2019s nestled in in a way which is much more comfortable than the rib breaking positions of their brothers.\u00a0 Or\u2026could it be that I have at last learned patience?\u00a0 I have finally learned to accept that things happen within their own time and that the planning is God\u2019s and not mine?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s possible.\u00a0 I doubt it, but it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve actually sought peace this pregnancy.\u00a0 In the past, I\u2019ve seen pregnancy as a way of marking time until the new baby arrives. It is the reason for my frenzied activity and not an escape from it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what makes this time so different.\u00a0 This time I can forget that I\u2019m pregnant for hours at a time, and it\u2019s only when I stop to rest that the gentle (and recently less gentle) movements of our daughter remind me of her presence.\u00a0 She\u2019s not the cause of my business, but my companion in rest.<\/p>\n
That will change once she is born and her demands to be fed, held, and changed assert themselves in my life and become the focus of my day\u2019s planning.\u00a0 Our schedules will be reworked for her nap times, adjusted for her feedings, but not just yet.\u00a0 Today she is still the spot of quiet and peace, my moment of zen and hopefulness.\u00a0 I\u2019m not ready to let that go for the bustle of new baby.<\/p>\n
So, stay a while longer, sweet #7.\u00a0 Rest under your mother\u2019s heart.\u00a0 Soon enough you will rest in my arms.\u00a0 But let\u2019s give it a week or two before we give up the bond we have today.\u00a0 Let\u2019s learn a bit of patience, shall we?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know the little time keeper on this blog says that I have 5 weeks until my due date, but if the past is an indicator, I actually have 2-3 weeks until #7 makes her debut.\u00a0 When I was at this point of pregnancy with my other babies, I couldn\u2019t wait for the day to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n