28 Weeks!

I apologize for my lack of week 27 post! Trust me, I tried to write it, there is a draft saved, but it wasn't anything you wanted to read! I typed and deleted three different paragraphs because I couldn't stop being emotional and saying things I didn't mean!
But week 28 brought a visit to my midwives, who are super incredible. When I refer to my "midwives" I'm not only referring to my actual midwives, but the two student midwives who have sat in with my midwives at my appointments. They will be apart of my birth team when labor day comes. They are great, and they will be awesome midwives one day. Maybe they will be around to deliver babies 2-10 for us Gilberts. After I get Uriah's birth center birth out of the way, I can move onto home birth, river birth, and mountain birth. It's important to birth in many landscapes. I'm JUST KIDDING, I won't have ten babies (probably)....
I was explaining to my birth team how crazy I have been the past few weeks, emotionally and physically. It's been ROUGH. I realize there is a mind-body connection and when one is off the other gets thrown off too, and I just couldn't stay on top of either of them. I had a schedule change at work so I've been working a lot more hours, and I've been working early mornings instead of afternoons, so that just complicated everything. I was riding non-stop on the struggle bus. My birth team was SO encouraging! I went in feeling beaten by my third trimester already, and I walked out of there with my head held high. My third trimester will NOT own me. My body is still in my control, not crazy hormones, and I can make the most out of the last few months of my pregnancy. It will still be hard, but I can get through it.
My birth team helped me come up with some ideas to help me get through the last couple months. I need to get this big ol bump in some water a couple times a week. The heat is making it miserable to take walks, and after working all day my feet can't handle it anyways. A nice float in a pool and doing some laps will both cool me off, and help me to be more active. I also need to be practicing yoga at home. I started taking prenatal yoga at my birth center from a lovely lady named Jen who will also be teaching our childbirth class. The class has been really fun, and very helpful in showing me great ways to stretch and relax and loosen up. Uriah really likes it too. So much so that it is a little hard to focus on breathing when he is being all crazy in there. Yoga has helped me become more aware of proper movement, and different muscles that I can strengthen for Uriah's delivery. My midwives also encouraged me to just go to the grocery store and get proper food for myself so I'm not eating crap all the time(my words not theirs)!
It was great to be encouraged to just force myself do it for a couple days until it starts to become apart of my schedule again. I can do it, I can be strong and not let third trimester kick my butt.
I'm already feeling better after trying hard for only two days. I even worked 5.5 hours without taking a break this morning, spilled steamed matcha latte all over myself and the floor while ten drinks were waiting to be made, had a pinched nerve in my arse and cried a little in front of ten people waiting for their caffeine fix, and I still managed to pull it together and be ok. Did I have to remove myself from the situation for 15 minutes and sit down even though there was stuff to do? Yes, but I can't help anyone if I don't take care of myself. I felt a lot better after I took a break, even though my pants were crusty from the spilled latte and my arse still hurt.
At my appointment I also got a glucose monitor so I can check for gestational diabetes. I said NO to glucola because if I'm going to consume that much sugar it better be a more enjoyable taste than that. Also, I have no risk factors for gestational diabetes, and the glucola test isn't always accurate, so sometimes people have to take it more than once. ALSO, drinking that nasty stuff isn't a good representation of what you eat on a normal basis anyways! So, I borrowed a glucose monitor and after testing yesterday I'm fairly certain I do not have gestational diabetes. I found it fascinating to take my blood sugar though! It's really quite interesting. The finger prick really didn't bother me, but I can see that if I had to do it all the time, it would not be fun at all.
Next week I really look forward to my CAMPING TRIP WITH MY BEST FRIEND! No, I'm not talking about Zach, I'm talking about the woman who loves me all the time and we aren't even married, or related (or at least not yet, I have great plans for our children to marry one day.) I get to go camping with my best friend, Aloura, and our lovely husbands, in Washington. I'm very, very excited, I have no idea how I will sleep in a sleeping bag, on the ground, in a tent and manage to get up frequently to go pee at night, but hey, it's only a few days. Ironically enough Aloura and her husband picked a campground called Bumping Lake. I'll show that lake whats really bumping... THIS BELLY!
Here are some pictures of our hikes from the last few weeks since the blog from week 27 died.