I totally realized that I haven't posted anything about baby in a few weeks. We have been so busy and sometimes I just forget to write a quick blog entry. But I have some time before bed to quick type up some amazing things that have been going on..
We set up the crib and it is really cute! I am thankful that a friend let us borrow it until she has grandchildren in 10 years.. LOL
We have also purchased lots of books, toys, and a cute toy chest. I will post photos another time.
The little one is kicking and moving around A LOT these days.
I have been playing lots of classical music for the baby. I just set my phone on my belly and let it play. I like to picture the baby dancing in there. Because he or she sure does wiggle around when the music plays!!
This experience is so beautiful. It really is special time just mommy and baby. This is time you can never get back. I am so glad I am blessed with a hard working husband. :) I love him!
I am going to post photos in order... from 21 weeks until 28 weeks (this week)
21 weeks
23 weeks
23 weeks, 3 days
24 weeks,
24 weeks, 3 days!
25 weeks, 1 day!
26 weeks!!
27 weeks, 4 days
27 weeks, 5 days!
28 weeks, 1 day!
28 weeks, 1 day!
I have watched several documentaries about birth in America! They are wonderful and every woman should watch them! They are on Netflix. Here is a trailer! I am also posting the bullet points that stuck out to me. Quotes from celebrity women who gave birth naturally. THE ONLY WAY! Unless there is a serious problem.---- Not just a lame excuse from a doctor....
"Midwives are hands off and more faith is involved. More faith in the natural process. Too much information takes away the mother's instincts". -Kim Williams-Paisley (Brad Paisley's wife)
"Due dates arent't real". More Business of Being Born.
"Anytime in the last month is normal". Ina May Gaskin
"80% of first time moms go "over due". Ina May Gaskin
"It is an illusion that inductions are necessary. 10 - 15% induction rate should be the max. - Ina May Gaskin
"It is safe to eat during labor". Ina May Gaskin
"2500+ babies delivered naturally and no autistic children". -More Business of Being Born (MBOBB).
"When we are pregnant, we are not sick. We are stonger. Why would it be that God would make you weaker? You are stonger". -Cindy Crawford, MBOBB.
Your uterus does the work. It gets the job done at it's own pace.
Doctors say: A normal low risk pregnancy can become high risk, life or death, without warning, within minutes and there's just no way to transfer in time.....Midwife says: You know, I cannot think of a time where we had a low risk go to a high risk without red flags. There are some red flags that occur. If we see one we watch close. If 2 come up we transfer to the hospital.
Stimulate the clitoris during labor, if it is comfortable for mom
When men came into the birth process they made it modest and not about sex
Ovulation and cycle length change it all and determine gestation period, but it is still a waiting game
Stay with natural childbirth until you see a real IMPASSE and then you do something (intervention) - Ina May Gaskin
We have questions about all medicines given during labor. Baby gets the medications from the placenta. What happens to the baby when this cocktail of drugs is introduced to a brand new human?? Where is the research? We don't know what all that does. We should be curious about these questions".
"When you put ultrasound waves on some cells it changes the cell size. What does it do to the DNA of that small baby's cells? This is a concern".
Studies have been done to link ultrasounds to autism.
2800 births performed by the midwives on the farm (Ina May Gaskin's farm) and NO autistic children.
The midwives have deliver 2800 babies and their c-section rate is 1.7%
The c-section rate in the U.S. as a whole is 37% as of 2007.
Doctors used to know things with their hands that they don't know anymore because they didn't learn it in medical school.
Graduating OB/GYNs have most likely NEVER seen a regular natural birth
Midwives visualize a problem and solve it if they can..
"If we really want to know the truth, we should be curious enough to find out what the truth is". -Ina May Gaskin
A higher value on mother's lives needs to happen
"It is safe to eat during labor". -Ina May Gaskin
"Midwives ask, "how do you feel"? instead of testing and disecting". - Kim Paisley
"I don't want to not have the birth I want because I'm scared" -Alyson Hannigan.(Lily, from How I met your mother)
"Early laboring was beautiful and calm and quiet. We relaxed and ate and enjoyed each-other". Alanis Morisette
"I was in deep prayer and meditation". Alanis Morisette
"Labor is a natural drug trip". Alanis Morisette
"I spent my whole life doing things to escape my body and for the first time, I was doing something that lead to the greatest euphoria I have ever felt, but I had also never felt so in touch with my body". Alanis Morisette
"We carry the pro-creative imperitive in our body. It is the culmination of the entire reason we are here, on a physical level". Alanis Morisette
"I needed to labor. No one can do it for you. You have to do it". - Cindy Crawford
"The resistance of something is what makes it painful". -Gisele Bundchen, brazillian fashion model
"After every contraction I thought, I am that much closer to meeting my baby. All the time spent talking to my baby and meditating about my baby, I was so excited to meet this little being".. -Gisele Bundchen, brazillian fashion model
"There are so many things you do in life to be successful. And so many things others do for you to help you. There is no question about who delivered my baby.. I did it. That is my success". - Cindy Crawford
"It is an out of body experience but at the same time you are SO in your body. I was praying, I was with God" -Kellie Martin,
"The biggest love I have ever felt" . -Gisele Bundchen, brazillian fashion model
"My job as a mom, was to breathe relax and trust my body and allow my body to do what it naturally does. We need to stay calm and allow the baby to do what it needs to do". Gisele Bundchen, brazillian fashion model
I HAVE ONLY WATCHED 2 OF THE 4 EPISODES AND I AM EXCITED TO WATCH THE REST SOMETIME SOON!
Last night we were blessed and were invited to share a table with the Horyzas at the Hope Pregnancy Centers annual Celebration of Life Banquet at the Holiday Inn! It was absolutely so wonderful. Kaleb and I would have never been able to go if it wasn't for them inviting us. We are so grateful! We don't have much more time to do things spur of the moment. And God seems to be blessing us with opportunities to do so. That is pretty amazing if you ask me. Well, at the banquet we heard a speaker talk about her experience in planned parenthood. She worked there 8 years and was employee of the year in 2009. Since then, she was converted to Pro-life and has written a book and tours the country speaking on behalf of the unborn.
Planned Parenthood tells women babies (excuse me "products of conception" the word baby is forbidden in a Planned Parenthood clinic) have no senses until 28 weeks gestation that way the woman agrees to the abortion because she is told her baby won't feel the pain. In reality, not la la Planned Parenthood land, babies develop the sense of touch starting at 3 WEEKS gestation!!!
This is someone response to the above post that ^ that was my Facebook status last night:
"Please remember that Planned Parenthood is amazing place to go if you are not ready to be a mom or dad as you are Jenni...they do amazing work and don't get enough aid to do what they do...if someone would believe that the baby will not feel pain then that woman should not carry a child and should have a place like Planned Parenthood to go so another child doesn't have to grow up without...not fair to be against something that does more good than bad for those that can't afford it! You'll be an amazing mom!"
My response: "THEY DON'T GET ENOUGH AID!!! The Federal government gave them 467 MILLION of our tax dollars. If you aren't ready to be a mom, carry the child and GIVE IT UP FOR ADOPTION!!!!Justify it however you want. It is NEVER fair to go to a Planned Parenthood clinic at 25 weeks pregnant and get a late term, live abortion, where the woman gives birth, the baby is often STILL ALIVE when it comes out and many times they just put the "product of conception" in a bucket and wait til it DIES!!THEY GET PLENTY OF AID. THEY GET OUR TAX DOLLARS EVEN IF WE ARE PRO-LIFE. WE DON'T GET A SAY IN WHETHER OR NOT OUR HARD EARNED MONEY GOES TO KILL BABIES. KILLING CHILDREN THAT SOMEONE ELSE COULD RAISE IS AMAZING WORK? KILLING 1.2 MILLION BABIES A YEAR IS AMAZING WORK? Amazing work to me would be Hope Pregnancy centers, they are a non-profit organization where any woman can walk in and get the help she needs. YES, they are pro-life so they encourage women to either keep their baby and give them the means to do so OR they direct them on how to go about the adoption process. I know many women who have used their services and their lives have changed for the BETTER. There are 4,000 Hope Pregnancy centers in our country and only 650 abortion clinics. One of my statuses last night said I am done being silent and I AM! I am OVER IT! Ethically, I won't be standing by any longer while poor innocent babies are being murdered. For what reason? Sounds like a pretty selfish reason to me. It is more about not wanting to be pregnant for 9 short months and it is more about having other people know you are pregnant and feeling that shame and embarrassment. It should be about the fact that there is a LIVE HUMAN BEING inside of you that GOD has blessed you with and it deserves a chance to enter into this world. A baby needs a family, it doesn't need it's biological mom to survive and have chance at a good life. There are so many women who WISH they could have children but CAN'T. Since abortion has become legal in our country over 30 million babies have been murdered. That is sick. I say baby because I refuse to say anything else. That little one is a BABY. And the fact that people think P.P. is a great organization makes me sick. They take a vacuum and suck out your baby and then take the pieces out of the container and a specialist pieces them back together to make sure nothing was left behind in the woman's womb. It is bloody and disgusting. Usually, that baby has, fingers, toes and sometimes the heart is even still beating as the technician PIECES it back together. THAT in my opinion, is NOT amazing work.And the baby DOES feel the pain. I think an amazing medical clinic would be one that tells the truth to it's patrons. Instead of lying to them to MAKE THEIR MONTHLY abortion quota. They talk about killing the unborn just like law enforcement talks about giving out their quota of speeding tickets. YUK! How many women would NOT get the abortion if the person working at planned parenthood said, YES, your baby will feel this and it is going to be painful and bloody. Your baby gets ripped apart limb by limb. But don't worry we won't leave any of it behind in your body because that could cause infection and you could sue us.. If P.P. is underfunded, I am curious as to what amount would make them OVER-funded. That 467 million they received was ONLY tax dollars. NOT money they received from donations by private people and organizations.. That number we aren't allowed to SEE! The wonderful thing about this life we live is this, Jesus died on the cross. So any mistake anyone made at any point in their life can be forgiven in the blink of an eye. We just have to acknowledge in our hearts that Jesus lives and ask for forgiveness and BOOM it's erased. I don't know any person including myself that can forgive anyone for anything THAT easily"
Things I wrote down from last nights speaker, Abby Johnson.--
"Just because the clinic in your town doesn't provide abortions, they are abortion salesman! They send people to the big clinic in Minneapolis because they want their money"!! -Abby Johnson, Pro-life advocate.
"I worked at Planned Parenthood for 8 years. I was a nice person and I was an abortion salesman". - Abby Johnson, Pro--Life speaker, former Planned Parenthood Director and 2009 Planned Parenthood employee of the year..
467 million of our tax dollars went to fund Planned Parenthood in 2011.
4,000 Hope Pregnancy Centers exist in the U.S.
650 abortion clinics exist
1.2 million abortions are performed EACH YEAR, 300 thousand by planned parenthood
Abortion has been legal for 40 years and in that time over 30 million babies have been terminated/murdered.
Planned Parenthood lies to the women who enter their clinics
Planned Parenthood does not give proper help to women. If a battered woman comes in and says my boyfriend said he would kill me if I don't get an abortion. The Planned Parenthood worker simply gives the woman paperwork and sends her off to her procedure and sends her right back to her boyfriend. When there are other actions that could be taken to help that woman. The options can at least be offered to the woman. BUT Planned Parenthood does NOT care about the well being of it's patrons. It cares about your money. They may act as though the needs of the patient matter but they don't. Because if they did, they would give women their options and tell them the truth. BUT THEY LIE!!
I learned some things I didn't know but mostly, I was convicted that it is not the time to be silent. I need to trust that Jesus is our healer and HE is working everything out for anyone who trusts in Him. I should not be afraid to speak up and point someone in the direction of a Hope Pregnancy Center. They offer GREAT services that women need. They will help a woman buy groceries, pay rents, pay for baby clothes, set up adoption processes.. the list goes ON AND ON!! I will NOT be silent anymore. It is the time to stand up for everything I believe in. I know I have been standing up for Jesus for a few years now and not caring how many people make fun of me or push me down. I won't stop. Because it is because of JESUS that I am who I am today and I AM ALIVE. The mistakes in my life are great. BUT that doesn't matter to God. The mistakes in your life are NEVER too big for our SAVIOR AND KING!! If you are struggling call a Hope Pregnancy Center. They will guide you in the best direction for you and your future child.. They will help you make decisions that won't ruin your life. They will help you choose life. Because life is the only choices worth making. The other choice, the choice of abortion comes with so many regrets and so much pain. I have spoken with many girls who have had abortions and they are sad and often feel so much guilt.They wonder about the baby they killed. They wonder if they are going to hell because of what they have done. They believe the lies of SATAN when he says, no one will ever love you. They believe the lie when SATAN says, you can't fix what you have done. Who could forgive you for choosing to end the life of your child?... WELL I am hear to write, that HE IS A LIAR. He wants you to stay in a dark pit and live out your days in pain. JESUS wants you to be forgiven.To walk in the mercy and grace of HIS LOVE!! His love is deep and wide and covers anything we have done. “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28)
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” (Acts 3:19)
“Come now and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” (Isaiah 1:18)
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” (Ephesians 1:7)
Jesus died on the cross so that EACH and every person that exists has a chance to hear the gospel and be saved and live out their days with Jesus by their side. That is some great news if you ask me!! Kaleb and I are both excited to be bolder and proclaim what is righteous and what is true. ABORTION IS NOT A NECESSARY EVIL!! It is not a womans only choice. YES, being pregnant is not a cake walk. It takes dedication, diligence and hard work. BUT it is also a beautiful process that shows us that God can use us to help Him create life. Now that I am in the midst of this amazing experience, I cannot imagine any other life. This little one has already changed me in more ways than I can explain. It teaches us to sacrifice and give things up for someone else's benefit. It shows us another form of love, a type that is different than any other. Yeah, things get stretched out and our bodies change and we no longer look super perfect. We have stretch marks and our feet grow and hair starts growing and falling out. But all of the physical changes cannot compare to the joy of realizing that in 9 short months a tiny little person comes out of us that loves us and NEEDS us. And if abortion is something a woman is considering, I get sad because women can create life with God's help. We are giving up the one thing we can contribute to this world that is a legitimate MIRACLE!! Men can't do it. Only us. It is God's gift to us. To be mothers and raise children to love God. We GET to do that. It should be viewed as a privilege. And if someone truly cannot care for a child, then adoption exists so that children can live and grow up loved. . . God bless. You are loved and loved to the fullest. Remember that. Jesus Saves.
