Leaving for the hospital

MO:
We are leaving for the hospital in the next hour.
(Painful) contractions in abundance.
I´m hoping I won´t be sent home (before he is here...).
It will still be many hours before we know...
Maybe next time we speak, I´ll be a mum? :)

Love
Mo

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YEEEEEEES???!!!! Part 2

MO:

Update at 18.42: Still hanging at home. The contractions don´t feel strong enough or frequent enough YET... (Although some of them are strong enough to completely bowl me over - like getting hit by a ton of bricks...)
I only want to go to the hospital once, not back and forth like a yo-yo...
Patience...
...which you know is my strong side...
....ehhhh...

YEEEEEEES???!!!!

MO:

SOMETHING IS DIFFERENT!

1. I had some amniotic fluid leakage last night. Nothing major but enough to be called in for a check up at the hospital.

2. The mucus plug is falling apart.

3. New contractions (ohhh, completely different feeling to the Braxton Hicks-practice contractions that I´d experienced so far...) started at 5.30am this morning. 13min apart. They are now down to 10min apart and some of them are starting to hurt.

Yes, it could be false alarm.
But! Ladies & gentlemen,
this could also be
the START!!!

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How to get your baby to come out, chapter 34

MO:

Today I´ve tried:

1. Swimming in the not so warm ocean.


2. Lying on the bed of nails for 30minutes.



3. Heavy weight lifting at the gym.



4. A friggin´ FREEZING shower
5. Veeery spicy food.

So..if "Putte" arrives tonight, which one helped him on his way?
Eh, do I care?
Hell, no!
Just come out, pretty please...

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MO:

No. Not yet.
Entering week 40 tomorrow.
The finishing stretch.

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Rest in Peace

MO:

Top 5 MJ-songs:
1. P.Y.T
2. Human Nature
3. Wanna be startin something
4. Rock with you
5. Billie Jean

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Classic

MO:

On Tuesday they play Eriksbergshallen in Gothenburg.
I´m a sucker for great 80s music and these guys are definitely worth the ticket price since their music has aged well and they are still producing hits - "They" are of course The Pet Shop Boys...

Out of all their brilliant, smashing songs, like: "Domino Dancing", "Love comes quickly", "Surburbia", "Rent", etc, it was easy to pick the video to "It´s alright".... Watch it and you´ll understand. :)

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Tick tock

MO:

Last night, NO sleep.
Today:
Ocean. Nice breeze, hot sun.
Gym. Worked out HARD. Not even a contraction to show for it.
Restaurant MEET in Geijersgatan 12. Yummy dinner.
Now, a movie in bed.

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25 degrees and rising...

MO:

25 degrees and rising...

What´s a super-pregnant gal to do? Go to the ocean and cool down, maybe?

For the record: I normally don´t go in to the Swedish sea until August (when it has reached well above 22 degrees)...but, with the extra thermal padding attached to the front of my body and being a baby making machine in its prime, I REALLY needed some cool water (17.5 degrees to be exact, some person, read Claes Ohlson nerd, had actually brought a thermometer to the beach...) on my skin....and here are the pictures to prove it:

YES! I survived the Swedish ocean in June. Without needing resuscitation afterwards!Amazing, eh?

Belly-Bump at 39 weeks (or 38+4 to be exact), Bikini H&M

The afternoon was spent eating ice-cream and going to a movie - "The Proposal"- (with Sandra Bullock). It was funny, even quite hilarious in places, light and shown in a perfectly air-conditioned theatre.

Just my kinda day. :)

PS. So, after nipple stimulation,

powerwalks/running,

weight training,

massages,

squats,

sex,

What else can be tried for getting "Putte" out???

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Just to make you laugh I’ll try almost anything…

DARLINGS!!!

It's a beautiful day and these guys are absolutely up there with U2!!

I saw them LIVE in NYC, and I haven't been able to stop listening to them since :)

Perhaps it's the memory of the night when we never went to bed, where we danced to the sunrise across Brooklyn Bridge, perhaps it's the bloody mary and the BBQ with the band, perhaps it's the company - I DON'T CARE! Listening to it makes my spirit fly high!
I do hope it does the same for you :)

Yesterday was first day of SWE Summer, work, ocean with hot hot bejbs, more work and deep pranayama :)

Today she choose to stick around (Summer that is:), work, yoga, perhaps a run (or not :), a secret project, road trip to BÅSTAD, speaking my truth, KALAS, dance dance dance, sand under my toes and most of all LOVE LOVE LOVE

See you out there :)

Jo

"Wax on - Wax off"

MO:

Yes, regular readers of this blog has it figured out by now. It´s one day on - one day off.
Talking about the state of my (pregnant) mental well-being, that is.

When I woke up this morning, I had another one of those: "I want to stay in bed for the rest of this damned pregnancy"-moments...luckily for me, when P´s not around I have some amazing friends and family.

JO had sent me a text, luuuuuring me out in the sun to have a fika with her. 40minutes later I was out of the house, freshly showered, dressed and on my bike...

Fika in the sun was followed by a gym training session later in the afternoon, sooo great for the heavy, stiff body and even greater when done together!

Gorgeous JO showing her strength and flexibility on the Kinesis wall

Doing dips in week 39... Yes, there it is: the Bump in all it´s beauty.

YES! Another day has passed...and I´m one step closer....

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Give it up now...

MO:

I´m like a broken record.

Waiting for "Putte" to tire of his obviously excellent, first-class room service inside my belly is one of the most tedious tasks I´ve ever lived through...

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How much can you love somebody?!

A MUST this YEAR!!!!

By accident I came across this film one night in NYC!
And I thank the UNIVERSE for it!!

It is def one of the must go-see movies' this year!

It is stunningly beautiful, smart, fab, fierce, honest, glamorous, informative, educating, hilarious and romantic all at the same time. It is a TRUE fairytale!

Adding to that experience, as we sat down in the cinema we were told that the director was there and that he'd like to introduce the film.... :)

Sometimes I find it a bit hard and boring to listen to the artist but this was far from that!
He told us about the pain in working with Valentino - that he quit his job every evening at 6 pm only to re-hire himself the following morning!

How they had to fight for 18moths before they got permission to show the film cause Valentino did not like the end result! How he refused to attend the opening in Canes but when the movie opened in Rome and got standing ovations, Valentino stood up from his balcony and greeted the audience - telling the director that next time - he wanted an OSCAR :)

Go see this living proof of love, beauty and following your dreams :)

Create your world or someone else will!! Jo

A midsummer night´s dream

MO:

No, no, no. Not a mummy yet.

I have a built in aversion towards "big" weekends, such as Midsummer, Easter, New Year´s Eve, etc etc. I´m not really sure where it stems from, but I have always found it difficult to muster any great enthusiasm concerning these celebrations. (Maybe one of the reasons might be that I find it excruciatingly hard to spend time with really drunk people for a whole evening - especially stuck in someone´s house in the middle of Nowheresville...
I´m at my happiest when I spend these festival times with a close group of friends. Hence Midsummer´s eve being a "family affair" with 12 of us going out to the country, eating sill & potatoes, followed later by a barbecue feast! Yummy! (My closest friends aren´t really big drinkers - there weren´t even snaps at the dinner table...)

By 10pm I was shattered and by 00.00 I was at home putting my pregnant body off to sleep. And a good one too!

Some of the food going on the Midsummer BBQ....

This morning, P had to DRAG me out of the bed. I refused to leave. The only thing I could say was:

"No, no, no! I REFUSE to leave this bed let alone this house anymore!
NOT until the freakin´ baby is arriving!!!
I CANNOT STAND BEING PREGNANT ONE MORE DAY!!!!!"

Bump entering week 39...

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Global Citizen

I LOVE Travelling....



...to YOGA places :)

And so I often get requests from other yoga addicted people about the inside info, the HOT-SPOTS and so on.

Part of travelling for me is also about exploring! I do go to the "well-known" teachers and studios, but I also try new ones. And that's how I found many of the amazing teachers that have influenced me and my practice! (know that sometimes a good cheesecake is your teacher of the day ;)

So..... what I am getting at is that all this info is now available on JIRA :)
Enjoy!!!
And PLEASE - Do tell us about your HOT-SPOTS!
I'm going to Amsterdam, London and LA this summer!

Much Love JO

Daddy....

This one is for you!

Had a very interesting conversation over 3 mojitos at a Cuban restaurant in the Chelsea about 2 weeks ago.

I told him about me and my dad, my super hero, my James Bond, my everything and he made me realize that I was looking for the impossible. Yeah, thanks a lot DAD..... the first cut is the deepest. I still want you by my side, just to help me dry the tears that I cry, and if you want I try to LOVE again, but I know...

but hey, let's look at it fromthe bright side... at least now I KNOW!

Right?!

Have a LOVEing weekend Jo