Well, I am 32 weeks along. Mason is a week bigger than he should be when they measure me every time I have gone to the midwife.
My medicaid was MUCH easier to get here in Texas than it was in New Mexico!! It took five months to work out medicaid and much hassle in New Mexico. Not here, I took the paper work five minutes away to an office and a few weeks later received my letter in the mail I was accepted. Oh the simplicity!! (Not used to this! What a blessing!)
We found a birthing center to go to. It is pretty amazing, it is like a house, with two birthing rooms, that are nice and cozy, home looking. Not the sterile atmosphere like a hospital which I am not keen on. There are birthing pools at the birthing center as well, which Lord willing I will be able to give a water birth. There is a kitchen we are free to use, which I will probably have Jordan make me a smoothie my friend told me about to help you milk come in :). (If you were interested in knowing these fun details)
The midwife and the nurses are pretty amazing. I just had an appointment the other day and got my Rhogam shot, so that is good. The birthing center will accommodate me in having an IV with the Group B Strep antibiotic. But I won't have to have the IV hooked up to me the whole time, they said I would be able to have the patch on my arm and they would hook it up every now and then to give me the medicine I will need. Also a blessing. (At first I was concerned that I would not be able to do the natural birth with the different things like the Rogam shot and the IV I will need, but the Lord is working it out).
The other day I got up out of bed and noticed Mason felt a little lower than usual. I looked in the mirror and he was lower! He has dropped and still more to come I am sure. A few noticed already that he is a bit lower. There is not much time, Lord willing, til he will be here! How exciting.
Mason is very active right now and I think four pounds. He is as long as he will be at birth already, now he just has filling out to do. It is amazing to think the Lord is forming him in my womb. We cannot build a baby, only God can. We cannot even conceive without Him actually, He is the one who opens and closes the womb. He sanctifies birth and He forms the baby in the womb. It is amazing and I have not even touched the surface of how beautiful it is. I am sure my eyes will be opened when Mason is born.
The Lord opens and closes the womb...
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.-Psalm 127:3
...And he said, the children which God hath graciously given thy servant.-Genesis 33:5
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb.-Isaiah 44:2
And God remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.-Genesis 30:22
And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters.-1 Samuel 2:21
God forms in the womb, who are we to stop Him? Who are we to think we have control? Who are we to think we don't need His blessing and plan for our life when it comes to children? Would we trust His plan for our family? It is His work. He chooses to open the womb, He chooses to give fruit of the womb. It is His reward. How beautiful is this.
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