Teaching through pregnancy = check!

Tonight I finished up my lessons that I hoped to complete before the baby comes.  I knew it was a gamble teaching right up until the day before I am due, but I was pretty sure I could bank on my going up to my due date, if not later!  I decided to teach every other day for the past 2 weeks (with a few extras thrown in the mix due to every other week students needing more times) and I’m really glad I decided to do that.  At first I was thinking I should have just taught for these past 2 weeks straight (all 10 days) but after finishing one day, I really needed the next day to recover.   Sitting for that long was hard on my body.  But tonight I finished!  Every one of my students has had one lesson to get them started in the new school year.  We did a lot of tedious beginning of the year stuff that I’m so glad we were able to do now instead of waiting until October when I start back up.  It will be so much easier to jump back in later with all of that stuff already taken care of.

And now my stress level is so much lower!  I deleted the emails that I had composed to send out just in case I unexpectedly went into labor early to cancel lessons and threw away the sign that I had printed off in case I had to run out the door.  PLUS Josiah had his first 2 days of preschool now AND I made it through Chloe’s birthday party and actual birthday.  I was worried about missing all of those exciting events if I had to be in the hospital.

So, I just have Chloe’s well-child doctor’s visit tomorrow and then Bakers have another piano lesson on Saturday and from there on out I don’t have anything scheduled for the next 2 weeks.  The baby can come anytime!

I had my midwife appointment this morning and there’s nothing new to report.  I did go ahead and schedule another appointment in a week.  We agreed that if I didn’t schedule it, I would probably need it, but now that I did, I probably won’t!  🙂