Pregnancy Update - Week 32 (and a whole lot of hormones)

I feel like having a little pity party for myself today. I didn't fall asleep until after 2am last night, so I am sure this is all due to being extremely tired and those darn pregnancy hormones. Being pregnant is hard. Your body doesn't feel good, you can't move the way you are used to moving, and people get tired of hearing you complain and stop listening. And I don't blame them. I even took my own belly picture today because I have asked several times for Rob to take one but it never gets done. So all you get in this belly picture is a belly - the most important part anyway. Tate is downstairs right now with Rob, the way he prefers it. If Rob isn't around, I am a good buddy. If Rob is around, Tate doesn't want to have much to do with me. This has been going on for a couple months now. At the beginning it bothered me but I got over it, mostly. Today it bugs me, only because the feeling of not wanting me around is only contributing to my pitiful mood. Tate should have been getting ready for bed by now. But I am not going to go downstairs and be the bad guy by ruining all the fun and making him get ready for bed.

I went to the doctor's today. All is well with Baby Girl (still no name yet). Her heart rate is great and she moves constantly. I only gained a 1/2 pound (yipee!) the last two weeks, so that was some great news. I still have the vericose vein issue and it looks like I may be getting some more. Pregnancy does the weirdest things. In an effort to preserve details that my otherwise foggy memory would forget, I am going to list the differences between this pregnancy and my pregnancy with Tate . . .

~Pregnancy with Tate: bleeding gums, stretch marks on my breasts, almost constant heartburn from the beginning (up near my throat), morning sickness through week 12 or 13 (and usually only once or twice a day for a short amount of time).

~Pregnancy with Baby Girl: vericose veins, stretch marks on my stomach, morning sickness through week 21 (usually sick all day long), several cold sores, heartburn (up near my throat) starting around week 30.

Well, here's hoping that I get a decent night's sleep tonight so I can stop feeling so sorry for myself and stop feeling sad.

Pregnancy Update - Week 31

It's getting closer. I have had some good nights of sleep and some not-so-good nights of sleep. My vericose veins are starting to bug me and I have worn my new support stocking two full days this week. Luckily, the weather has been mild and rainy so I haven't overheated. Baby Girl moves like a champ though. I swear sometimes she is trying to bust out of there. I don't remember Tate moving so much and so hard. I think I am a little smaller, so maybe she has less room to move around. We have been getting out the baby stuff (car seat, swing, etc.) and that has been fun. I just have a few more touches for the nursery and we should be all set. Thanks to Nana, we are good to go in the clothing department! She has spoiled us rotten, just as she did when we had Tate. I have been meaning to get a new picture to post, so that will be the goal for this next week.

Pregnancy Update - Week 30

Yay! I love numbers that end in "0." I had an appointment today with the doctor. She told me that I was measuring (my stomach) at 29 weeks. I looked at her and silently dared her to change my due date. That would have been awful. But she didn't, so maybe it just means that Baby Girl is squished in there and maybe that is why it often feels like she is kickboxing the heck out of my insides. Everything else checked out great . . . good weight gain (22 pounds so far), good blood pressure, glucose test came back normal. My friend Britt is 35 weeks but will be getting induced at 38 weeks. So she only has 3 weeks to go! Somehow that makes my remaining 10 weeks seem extremely loooooong. I bought a pair of support stockings, hoping they would help with the achiness that has started thanks to a great pair of ugly vericose veins. Unfortunately, the stockings are not very comfortable (think VERY tight nylons) and make me more hot than I already am. So now it is a question of what makes me more uncomfortable, the stockings or the veins. I'll keep you updated.