Pregnancy Update

Here we are at 36 weeks gestation! Want to see my tum? Too bad. You’ll have to go somewhere else for belly-shots. My camera is useless.

Technically, this pregnancy is considered full term now. My babies don’t have a history of making early appearances, so I don’t expect to see this squinchy little face for five weeks, at least. I’m blissfully healthy when I’m pregnant, so I don’t mind very much. Every pregnancy I’ve had has been super-easy, despite my having thyroid disease. I thank God for it, and pray for this to always be the case! Thyroid hormone levels can very hard to manage for some women, but I’ve never had a problem. Many ladies with hypothyroidism have trouble even conceiving, so I am blessed, indeed, to have had four healthy pregnancies!

I keep having to remind myself how blessed I truly am, because I am also very, very impatient. Here I am with 4 or 5 weeks to go before our baby makes his debut, and I want him out NOW! I will wait as patiently as I can, since I have no say in this, but I’m ready to get my body back now. As much as a breastfeeding mama with 4 kids hanging on her can be said to have a body of her own, anyway. There are plenty of people with legitimate claim to the use of my body right now, but somehow I don’t seem to be one of them.

We changed the baby’s name, by the way. We had decided on Benjamin Graham, but Jesse wanted to honor his dad by naming the baby after him. Accordingly, we changed it to Mark Benjamin. But this baby won’t let me call him Mark! I’ve tried. It doesn’t work. My 6 year-old absolutely would not accept the name change, either. It feels weird to change his name after having called him Baby Benjamin for so long. So the boy’s name is Benjamin Mark Dyer, and if you prefer to call him Mark, you are welcome to! But I can’t do it. It’s just too late in the game for that.

I can’t say for sure whether I’ll be live-blogging or tweeting the birth. If I’m comfortable enough, I may do just that! Stay tuned for more news. 4 weeks to go!