Coming and Going?

3D Ultrasound at 34 weeks

So we have been down in Edmonton for 3 days now and while things are slowly taking some semblance of a routine, it is a hard adjustment for both girls and for myself. And, in a lot of ways, for my mother and brother, who are not quite used to having small children underfoot. My mother seems to struggle a bit understanding what I am and am not allowed to do ("Come run down here right now!" is NOT on my list of things I should be doing. Sigh.) and I am feeling rather uneasy about the girls running about the house. It is hard to feel like I can truly feel rested here while I am watching the girls so closely and to relax in someone else's home with other people's things around and not a lot of comforts of home. I am tempted to just go home for a week, as we had originally planned and come back down again for my appointments on the 23rd but that is 10+ hours of driving.

I had an appointment yesterday with my family doctor here and she agreed that I should be resting more and being active less. She also told me that she didn't think it was a good idea for me to drive back home by myself so that throws a bit of a kink in the "go home" plan since we would then have to arrange for someone to drive with me and the kids. So now to decide if the hassle of finding someone to drive with, coupled with how hard it would be on the kids to go back home only to have to come back to Edmonton a few days later.

The baby seems like things are stable and not going anywhere anytime soon so I think it would be OK to travel so much but I don't know if it is really worth going back and forth. I want to be home so much because it would be easier in so many ways but the girls are starting to get used to the idea of being here. Sigh.

I need a private jet or something.

Green Light!

So, at my appointment, the OB here found that I had no changes in dilation or softening from the last appointment (hurray!) and so I had the green light to drive down to Edmonton. I will be there for about 3 weeks, I think. Rather than drive back and forth every week, like we had originally planned, so that Julia could have more normal routine going to school, etc. we dont want to risk chance TOO much by having me on the road with two kids by myself for so long. So, three weeks there, and 2.5 weeks back home and if everything keeps going well and Pumpkin does not spring any surprise moves on us, we should be good to go for May when we will be down until the delivery.

Sounds like a plan, right? Now if only Pumpkin will get on board with the plan, we'd have it all set!

So I will be down in Edmonton on Monday night and will be trying to sort out how life will proceed as normally as possible for that time :)