Week 39

Wow. So sick of this pregnancy gig. I have never been so antsy, irritated, bitchy in my life. I am SO uncomfortable all the time and SOOOOO discouraged about the lack of spring this year, that everything seems to SUCK! I have been trying to remember to play with Jackson and really enjoy him right now and that actually is going well other then the fact that I can barely move around to play with him. But we manage. He is such a fun little boy! :) 

What I love: Uhm. Nothing. OK. My son and my husband. There I said something positive. 

What I hate: Everything and everyone and STOP asking me how I'm doing! I am horribly uncomfortable and pregnant! I hate that I might be pregnant well into May and I actually might be snow still heaped on the ground. I WANT SUMMER AND MY BABY!

What I miss: Everything. Being in a good mood. Being able to bend over and stand up with out pain. 

What I’m looking forward to the most: Being normal and having this little one out! 

Worries: I am very worried about going to Dale Hardy for possible care transfer. I would like to do ANYTHING to avoid that! I am worried to death that I'll end up in the hospital two weeks over...  BLAH!!!!!

Developments: I had hours of menstrual like cramps last night. But they didn't do anything or go anywhere and today everything stopped again.  

Mood: BAD! Tired. Cranky. Bitchy. Unreasonable. DEPRESSED! 

Sleep: Not great. 

Movement:A lot less movement. It's probably running out of space. 

Bra Size:C. Yuck.

The belly (and the button!): HUGE!

Wedding rings on or off: Off. Maybe I should have put in my most looking forward, wearing my wedding ring again. I LOVE it!

Weight gain: 172-173. Around 35 lbs weight gain. It was still 173 last night at 2 AM when I was up not able to sleep. 

Measurements:  Large. I'm too depressed to actually check how big and flabby I am. 

Exercise: HA! I'm lucky to be able to walk around. I have gone for a couple of walks and I lifted very light weights yesterday, but I hurt from it... STUPID!

Eating: Fine. Less then I was eating. Not caring still. 

Weekly Pics:

The baby is the size of a water melon... It definitely feels like that!

And 39 week belly pic.

 

Week 38

Well, unfortunately I  have not gone into labor. Nor truth to tell do I feel like it's going to happen anytime soon.  I want it too, and I am praying EVERY day that somehow it will happen, but nothing so far. But the good news is that it feels like spring outside and that makes me happy. At least for now, the snow is actually melting and I was able to go for walks which helps my outlook on life considerably. 



What I love: The possibility of labor anytime. THIS is still true this week. 

What I hate:Almost everything pregnancy related. It's been a long nine months and I don't want to do it anymore. I want to be done. 

What I miss: Everything about not being nine months pregnant! :) EXACTLY THIS!

What I’m looking forward to the most: Being normal and having this little one out! 

Worries: Labor. What's not to worry about? It's going to happen and it's going to hurt. I wish I could just get it over with. 

Developments: Lots of BH. Some of them hurt, some don't. Lot's of pinchy cervix. But no bloody show or mucus plug. DAMN IT! 

Mood: OK. The spring is helping but the end it always very hard to deal with. 

Sleep: Ok. Except Jackson has been waking up in the middle of the night wanting to play and staying awake for hours. GRRRR! SO tired today!

Movement:Still lots of movement. 

Bra Size:C. Yuck.

The belly (and the button!): HUGE!

Wedding rings on or off: Off. Maybe I should have put in my most looking forward, wearing my wedding ring again. I LOVE it!

Weight gain: 172-173. Around 35 lbs weight gain. Though with the amount of sugar I want to eat, it's amazing it's not more. 

Measurements:  I haven't checked this week. I will next week. 

Exercise: Three times, but I am counting walking as exercise at this point. I went for a 2 2 mile walks this weekend. Very nice. 

Eating: OK. But I don't care at all anymore. I will after I don't have to think about pregnancy for a few years. OH THE JOY OF NOT BEING PREGNANT!!!!!! PLEASE END SOOOONNNN!!!!!

Weekly Pics:

The baby is the length of a leek supposedly and weighs between 6 to 8 pounds. :) That's quite a margin! 

And week 38 belly pics. Hopefully I will only have one or two more pics to take!!!! PLEASE GOD!!!!!!

Week 37

So here we are. The other side of 37 weeks. It's still not spring outside and the weather continues to be cold. Grace has STILL not had her baby and everyone else on the pregnancy forum has... (basically.) So, ya fighting a little bit of "I'm going to be pregnant FOREVER! My Dad was here over the weekend so all exercise plans went out the window. Which, truth to tell, I hurt and have no motivation to exercise anyway. I was having lots of contractions but then Thursday I had hardly any, and they haven't really picked up since. Though yesterday this baby was rolling all over the place! I am so tired all the time now, but I know that the fog will only descend even more once this baby gets here. My dad is convinced that it will be born on the 25th. Full moon, and it happens to be Dan's birthday. I don't care. JUST BE BORN! :)


What I love: The possibility of labor anytime. 

What I hate:Almost everything pregnancy related. It's been a long nine months and I don't want to do it anymore. I want to be done. 

What I miss: Everything about not being nine months pregnant! :) EXACTLY THIS!

What I’m looking forward to the most: MY baby!!!!! I want to hold this kid SOO much! I want to post pictures and to FINALLY have everyone know that sex the baby is and use the name we picked out. 

Worries: That I won't go into labor. That I'll end up two weeks late and in the hospital and that my in laws will be at the birth where I don't want them. The idea of my BIL coming to the birth center pisses me of so badly that my blood pressure instantly goes up!                      

Developments: None. Other then being sore and heavy and feeling like a whale. A white whale!

Mood: OK. Not super emotional, but not normal either. 

Sleep:Blah! I hate waking up! I have been waking up between 4-5 every morning and that's it. No more sleep until 5 to 6 when I doze off just to be jerked awake by my alarm at 6. 

Movement:So much! This child has been going crazy in there. I don't know how there is room. 

Bra Size:C. Yuck.

The belly (and the button!): Big. Very big and bigger. 

Wedding rings on or off: Off. Maybe I should have put in my most looking forward, wearing my wedding ring again. I LOVE it!

Weight gain: 170-171. Blah!

Measurements:  Chest: 37.75" Belly: 42" (Below belly button, or what's left of it...) Hips: 41.5" (Yick) Thighs: 21.5" Calves: 14.5"  Bicep: 11" (Largest part.)  There.... like I said last week. LARGE!

Exercise: Twice. That's all I managed. Oh well. Pretty soon I will be running in the sunshine. Feeling the wind in my hair. Being able to BEND OVER!!! Yippe! 

Eating: Fine though I am going to go through major sugar withdrawal after this baby is born as I have not held back. I LOVE candy! And I have been nibbling on skittles for like a month. But after this kid is out. NO MORE!

Weekly Pics:

This week, the baby is full term and between 5 -6 lbs. 19-20 inches long about the length of swiss chard.

And the belly pictures. 

  

Week 36

Yippee! I'm finished 36 weeks of pregnancy! This post is late because I got the stomach bug and was sick all weekend. YUCK! There is possibly nothing quite to horrible to me as throwing up while pregnant.  Oh well, it's over and hopefully (please GOD!!!) I won't get sick again during this pregnancy. I don't know, but I sort of have a small hope of delivering earlier then last time. I have been having contractions continuously for weeks now. I just can't help but hope they are actually doing something.  Oh and this week was my 30th birthday. Yep I know. How can I be thirty? Well, apparently I am managing it, but I don't like it all that much :) 


What I love: Being near the end. I've done 36 weeks. I only have a few more to go. 

What I hate:I hate that it's snowing out and it's mid April. How stupid is that!!! I hate not exercising, and I hate aching all over just from sleeping in my bed! Oh and I HATEEEE!! being itchy in my lady parts because of STUPID pregnancy hormones!

What I miss: Everything about not being nine months pregnant! :) 

What I’m looking forward to the most: MY baby!!!!! I want to hold this kid SOO much! 

Worries: Still a bit worried about position, and I'm a bit worried about not making it to Fairbanks to have the baby.                           

Developments: Other then my cervix hurting and constant contractions, not much. 

Mood: OK. Though I will say I did have a bit of a downer around my birthday as EVERYTHING sucked that day. 

Sleep: Not too bad, when I can actually fall asleep and stay asleep and not pee..... ok, so not great! 

Movement:So much!

Bra Size:C. Yuck.

The belly (and the button!): Big and round and someone told me today that I looked like I had dropped. (God let that be true!) 

Wedding rings on or off: Off. Maybe I should have put in my most looking forward, wearing my wedding ring again. I LOVE it!

Weight gain: 168 - 169. Still... :) I was sick, so that is probably contributing to it. 

Measurements:  Chest: 37.75" Belly: 43" (Below belly button, or what's left of it...) Hips: 41.5" (Yick) Thighs: 21.5" Calves: 14.5"  Bicep: 11" (Largest part.)  There.... like I said last week. LARGE!

Exercise: Not a bit. Not even a day. Nope. It sucked. Jackson decided to stop sleeping most of his afternoon nap, and the days when I had time, I hurt too badly to walk let alone exercise. And then the weekend had me throwing up. SO, not a good week. Oh well. 

Eating:OK. Not great, not terrible. Not horrible. I guess it's all subjective. 

Weekly Pics:

And this week the baby is about 6lbs.. (though my MW told me at the last check that she thought the baby was a nice little baby... :) Yippe! ) The size of a crenshaw melon. (I have no idea what  a crenshaw melon is....  

And the belly pics along with a progression. I had to add one more pic to make it work out right so I did 36 weeks of my first pregnancy for comparison.