i've been feeling a lot of preassure on my bladder lately. and movements are more squirming rather than movements. it feels as though things are pretty tight in there. not as much kicking. tho throughout the whole pregnancy i didn't feel a lot of kicking, just a lot of moving.

i'm ready to not be pregnant anymore. there are some women who just LOVE being pregnant. i'm not one of them :) . i want my old body back. tho i've been told that you never get your old body back... i'll try my hardest to get it back tho. i've also been told the fastest way to lose the prego fat is to breastfeed. another great reason to brestfeed! :)

i think as soon as i feel up to it, i'll be at the gym! it'll be great too since the weather will be nice and i can take jimmy out for walks and stuff.

this morning i woke up at like 10:30am. tho, i stayed up till about 2 watching tv etc. this afternoon i'm going to go help out at the flower shop. that'll be nice. a first full day of not having to worry about jimmy being breeched.

this morning i threw out the rest of the moxi stick. it was stinking up the bathroom just being in there. and i've opend up the windows in the bathroom to try and air it out. the last little while jeremy and i have been sharing a bathroom since his bathroom was being used for moxibustion :) i think we're going to keep sharing a bathroom and just pack up the other bathroom to make it easier when we move.

this morning i woke up all anxious and my tummy was in knots. I just felt so nervous. today was the big day that we'd find out whether jimmy is breech with the ultrasound. our ultrasound was scheduled for 10am. i woke up at about 8:30, showered, drank a glass of water, and had a banana. i didn't want to eat too much. I wanted to have an empty stomach so if we did the version (manually flipping jimmy) that there would be plenty of room.

i then read the back of our ultrasound sheet that we got from the midwives and there was instructions about how to prepare for the ultrasound. i wasn't suppose to go to the washroom 2hrs before and i was suppose to drink 750ml of water 1.5hrs before the ultrasound. whoops! needless to say i did the opposite of those and tried to drink as much water as I could afterwards.

driving to the hospital was pretty nerving. we got into the office and the receptionist was so nice. on the sheet it had said that we should arrive 10 minutes early. we were just on time. our midwife said that she wasn't sure how long it would take to wait for the ultrasound so we brought books and were prepared to wait for a while. we sat down for about 5 minutes and they took us in right away.

i climbed up on the bed, lowered my pant top and she put the ultrasound gel stuff on my stomach. it was cooooold. and then she put the thingy on my stomache near the bottom and before jeremy could sit down and watch the screen.. she said 'oh!, and looks like baby is head down!'

i sigh of relief came over me. 3 weeks of worrying, and wondering came to a complete hault. i looked at jeremy and i had tears in my eyes. i was so happy! :) he smiled back and i knew he was relieved too. he's always been positive throughout all of this and i think it was just him trying to calm me down but I could see the happiness and relief in his eyes too! :)

the ultrasound technician began to take meassurements and she basically told us that he was head down, healthy with a relaxed heart rate of 120bpm, and there was plenty of amniotic fluid inside.... and she also told us that he/she has hair, weighs approx. 6.5lbs and definately has daddy's legs :) .. so we know he/she will be tall!

since she wasn't able to tell which way the baby was turned she asked if it would be ok if she did an internal examination to see if she could feel his head because he's low enough tha they would be able to feel him/her. i didn't see a problem with it, but i wasn't sure if it would hurt or not. it didn't hurt at all.

at first she thought it was the head she was feeling, but then felt around some more and found a dip which she could tell that it was the bum. all i could think of was cool!!!! she can feel him! :) ... she then gave me some moxibustion to try to flip the baby, and then suggested we do an ultrasound to make sure that he's breeched. she scheduled an ultrasound for tuesday and said that if in fact he's still breeched after the ultrasound to come straight over and that her and Chantal would try to manually flip jimmy from the outside. i'm anticipating it being very uncomfortable and not very nice. i don't think i'll be eating much that morning so that there's lots of room to do stuff! :)

i hope he turns. i also made an appointment to see kelly (our chiro) so she can try the webster techqnique on me. i'm not quite sure what it is, but i think it has something to do with just making more room for the baby and making the uterus not so tight so that the baby can move into a more relaxed psition.

in the meantime jeremy and i are still doing everything we can. all the crazy excercises to encourage jimmy to turn. the inverted position, putting cold on top and warm on the bottom of the belly, music and light on the bottom, and jeremy's talking to jimmy from the bottom as well. I guess the best we can do is keep positive, and know that whatever happens happens, and we'll deal with whatever it is. things always happen for a reason. i shall keep you posted!

oh, i almost forgot. tonight we have our coldplay concert!! it'll be my first real concert! i can't wait. maybe the music will make jimmy turn! ;)