32 weeks!

{I'm such a slacker on posting weekly pregnancy pictures! Coming soon...hopefully!}

At 32 weeks, still feeling great! Lots of movement. Lots of hiccups for the little man (they don't seem to last too long). 

We went to our birth class a week ago. Lots of good info for both parents...so glad Ben is just as excited and interested to learn about all of this as I am. I definitely wouldn't have the courage or faith to have a homebirth on the first go-around (or likely at all) if I didn't have him. And just so we're all clear, he never swayed my decision about where to give birth, he said it's my decision, he wants me to be as comfortable as I can be and he would support any decision. 

For all the people shaking their heads at me as I choose an unmedicated natural home birth (and because I just said he wants me to be comfortable, which by default, "unmedicated child birth" and "comfortable" do not go together), I am almost 100% certain I would be more uncomfortable in a hospital setting even with an epidural than I will be at home. I would literally have performance anxiety if I was in a hospital, with all of the different strangers coming in and out of the hospital room, checking all my lady parts, having all these fun beeps from all of the equipment, having wires and tubes in my arms, and then the strangers giving me all sorts of commands about when to push or when not to push. At home, I will have at most 1 stranger there (that is, if I'm not able to meet the midwife's birth assistant before the Big Day). At home, I can walk around, I can turn the lights down low (or have them all on and bright if I choose), I can EAT (they don't let you eat in a hospital!), I can take a bath or shower whenever I want, and the only people there will be the people who have been taking care of me since the early stages of the pregnancy. People who have seen lots of births and won't judge or care with how I end up dealing with the pain. 

Sorry to get off on that little tangent. 32 weeks and still going strong! After our birth class, we went downtown to take fun pictures. I wanted to play with the manual settings on the camera to understand better how to get crisp pictures at night with a tripod. It was a little difficult being both the photographer AND the subject....therefore some of the pictures are not quite in focus. After Ben and I started playing with the camera settings, we realized we could make "ghost" pictures. You'll see what I mean when you scroll down... one or both of us literally looks like ghosts. Kinda neat, eh?

Baby Bump comparison at 31 weeks

Ben and I are out of focus in this picture because we had the shutter speed very high and then we were not completely still. Anywho, you get the idea of whose bump is bigger.

Favorite "ghost" picture:

The shutter speed is at the highest setting here, which means while the shutter is capturing the image, you must be completely (I repeat, COMPLETELY) still. This is an example of me not understanding that and coming into the picture and moving while the shutter is still capturing what is going on.


More pictures to come! Sleep is calling my name at the moment...