final trimester

Well this one may take more than one blog. So much happened in these few months. More than I am sure to remember. Well throughout the whole pregnancy I was researcing all different things that had to do with pregnany, motherhood and babies. I went on vacation in July to Utah. So I was pretty far along and went to an extremely hot summer place. Though we did spend most of the time in Park City, it was still really hot. I remember getting a pretty bad sunburn that hurt more than usual, being pregnant and all. I remember I was pretty tired throughout the week. I did have a lot of fun with everyone though. I was still able to stay up til the wee hours of the night playing Settlers of Catan and cards with everyone. Still memorable. The last time I got to see fireworks for the last time in who knows when. Since we don't have darkness in July, fireworks suck then. :(
So anyways, when we got back from vacation I started thinking more about where I was going to deliver the baby. I called the hospital and the clinic trying to get the prices of what it was going to cost me to deliver in the hospital. They pretty much said there were too many "what if's" to give me a number. By the fifth call I finally was able to get a fax that had round figures from the hospital and the clinic gave me numbers. The hospital itself would charge about $4000 for a vaginal delivery and the clinic (dr or midwife) charged another $4000. For some reason we had thought it was either or not being charged by both places. So we were not planning on $8000. That sounded ridiculous. So I called a local midwife that my sister had used to deliver her children in a homebirth. At 35 weeks we changed midwives. It was the most wonderful decision we could have ever made. They were kind of nervous about taking me on being so far along and all. But we started with our first appointment. Brought all records from the clinic. Things went crazy fast and crazy slow after that. I will continue later with my last month of fun times...