Kontra Dominik...

...was born on 24th July, 2007 at 9:27 AM on Tuesday.

Weight: 3400 grammes
Lenght: 57 centimetres

Water left at noon on Monday – no pains.
Hospitalization at 4:00 PM on Monday – still no pains.
First pains from 3:30 AM per 10 minutes on Tuesday – bearable.
Pains from 6:00 AM per 5 and 3 minutes – begins to be painful.
Labour room from 6:45 AM – checking pains and fetal cardiac sound.
Spontaneous vaginal delivery from 8:00 AM.

The 38th Week

It’s terribly hot in Hungary. The mercury in a thermometer shows degrees above 40 for six days running. It’s tropical. I shudder only at the thought of being outside. The scorching sun is unbearable, the air doesn’t move. We are at home, unless we have some things to arrange. Krisz still has the plaster bandage on his leg, poor boy. He had to visit the doctor yesterday. He really hoped that it had been removed. Unfortunately, he suffered internal bleeding again, so one more week with it. He was said that his knee shows the sign of healing, it’s essentially better.
I hope that this terribly hot won’t have an influence on Dominik’s arrival. (The number of birth dubled because of the weather.) I mean, I would’t mind if he was born earlier but not yet. I still have some things to do before going to the hospital and not mentioned his father’s state. In my opinion he has not more than 2 weeks in my belly. He starts to take place in the birth canal, sometimes I have womb reactions. The orifice of the uterus is closed. I have to go to the bathroom more times during a night and it’s not easy to fall asleep again, every sleeping position is quite uncomfortable in spite of the fact that Dominik is very calm at night (only at night!). He hiccups a lot, four or five times a day. According to the last ultrasound (11/07/07) his estimated weight was 3077 grammes. I started to take some homeopathic medicine suggested by the obstetrix which may ease the childbirth.

The 37th Week

The number of medical examinations are increasing. We have to visit the doctor weekly and the obstetrix as well. The doctor examines the orifice of the uterus, the baby movements, appraises the results of the examinations due like ultrasound, blood taking, antibody, water test, NST. The obstetrix examines the baby’s cardiac sounds and movements (he’s still very active), the tightness of the placenta. This called non-stress test and lasts for about 30 minutes. It’s plain to be heard how the baby wriggle inside the womb.
But this is not everything as regard doctors and public health institutions. Krisz sprained one of his knee last Sunday. He missed his footing, he stepped on a block of wood in the forest and his knee-cap left its place. He reduced it (three times) but hardly could stand on it and it swelled up very much. We hurried to the all-night service then to the hospital where a lot of blood was drew off under his knee-cap and he got a plaster bandage. It’s from ankle to less under bottom. He has to wear it for 3 weeks. We’re at home together, he’s not allowed to move with it, he’s confined to bed. This kind of accident / any kind of accident never come in good but it’s the worst possible. I would need his help at this time most but I have to do things somehow without him. He can’t drive, I’m the driver to everywhere. Fortunately, there’s just enough place for my belly behind the steering wheel. I have to give him an injection into his stomach every day against trombosis. At long last he can rest up.

The 36th Week

Working days are over for a while. The farewell was painful. I was whimpering even on the previous day at home. I hate the ends. The last occasion was the graduation ceremony (2004) when I had the same feeling. After I had had my degree in my hand I felt bad because that document made me understand that college years were definitely over, there were no more days within the same frameworks.
The colleagues working on different buildings came into the office to say good bye and gave their best wishes. I hope that I managed to impart my skill and knowledge to the new girl during the last two weeks. At the end of the day, the last day I picked up the rest of my personal things, the kind gifts I got and I gave my closest colleague, the dearest colleague a lift for the last time.
But there’s no time to being grieved, it’s time to celebrate! Krisz’ 29th birthday was on Friday, my father nameday on Saturday, Annamária Day on Sunday (my mother’s and sister’s nameday), what’s more one of our friends from the country visited us at the weekend. He is going to work in the capital from July.
And now I turn over a new leaf, I do know what to do on my free time. In the last few weeks I cooked very seldom, so I want to make up for what I’ve missed. I’m going to prepare something delicious every day or almost every day. And then here is the baby’s bedroom. It’s high time to furnish and buy the things missing. I got a lot of complement from my cousin and one of my colleagues which they won’t need any more. It was very kind of them, it’s a great help at this time. In these days my mother and my sister are my two right hands, they help me to clean the windows and give a helping hand to me in anything/everything.

Let's see the photo of the week (on the right):