First and foremost, I love being pregnant. I love feeling a tiny baby squirm and wiggle inside me. I love that I can actually see my belly bulge and move into different shapes and imagine what it was that just jumped across my stomach…was it her arm? her knee? her head? Sometimes my whole belly will suddenly jump, and I imagine that something spooked her. Then other times I wonder what it's like for her when I do certain things. For example, what does it feel like when I roll over from my left side to my right side in the middle of the night? Am I turning her upside down when I do so? How does this not instantly provoke a scrambling response to be completely shifted 180 degrees? I also wonder how she can simultaneously be stepping (?) on my hip bone AND wedged in my ribs. I mean, how big is she in there? Do I have a baby standing up right on my hip bone with her head in my ribs? These are all questions that I constantly think about as she moves around. I would also like to know if her movement is average to other babies. It feels like she moves all. the. time. Does she ever rest for more than an hour? Will she rest for longer than an hour when she’s outside of my belly? (PLEASE SAY YES!) One thing I know for sure is that I am very glad she stopped trying to escape via my belly button. I’m fairly certain for a week's time she was tired of being cramped and saw my belly button as the best chance for freeing herself. It was an uncomfortable week. (Yow.)
So that’s what Little Miss Doodle has been up to around this point in my pregnancy…but what about me? Well, glad you asked…
Sadly, I’ve had to bid farewell to sleep. I was surprised to kiss it goodbye so early. I honestly (and stupidly) thought my sleep would be unaffected by pregnancy. Because if there’s one thing I can do and do well, it’s sleep. Just ask my husband. He was unaware that people could sleep so long into the day if left undisturbed. He also didn’t know how cranky one could get if sleep was being withheld. It’s not all my doing either. It's a family thing. I’m pretty sure my mom and brother would agree that sleep is very important to them. Don’t mess with our sleep. Sorry, I digress. I’ve had to make nightly bathroom trips since the very beginning of my pregnancy. I actually got rather used to it. However, my sleep really started to slip away from me about a month or so ago. My first remedy was to get a body pillow to help ease my aches and pains from sleeping on my side. I’m not sure if it is because of the years of gymnastics abuse, but my body aches all over when I sleep on my side. You can imagine my delight when I found out I can’t lay on my belly (duh) OR my back (something about decreased circulation). The body pillow helped for awhile. Eventually I just had to keep adding more pillows around me. Now I am in a pillow cocoon…leaving my darling husband with about ¼ of the bed (oops). And, I’m sure he would have me mention that I snore now too, which doesn't bother me except for the sore throat in the morning. So, he is left with a fraction of the bed and a wife that snores. He also has to deal with me grumbling every time I roll over due to the fact that the simple act of rolling over is now a 5 step process. He deals with everything with no complaint though! (He's a keeper.)
You know who else is not complaining? The cats. They cling to their designated pillows on the bed like a child who thinks there is a monster under their bed that will eat their feet should they step off. I'm pretty sure they see it as their island of softness. So I’m not only in a pillow cocoon, but a pillow cocoon speckled with cats. I love them though. They are happy to keep me company and purr quietly to help me sleep.
People keep asking me if I'm ready to have the baby and be done with pregnancy. I definitely don't think I'm at that point yet. Sure, I'm very excited for her to get here, but I'm still happy to have a life living inside me. (Not to mention the fact that the nursery is nowhere near ready, and we have no necessities yet except for some baby clothes.)
I think that sums things up right now! I'll keep you posted as my 3rd trimester continues on :)
And because I like to spruce up blog posts with a picture, here is Philly hugging the baby or listening for her heart beat. It's one or the other. He wouldn't say which.
*I realize that I do have 3 cats, and so far only 2 have been featured on my blog. That is for 2 reasons: 1, Emo (pron. like Emma with an 'o') is way too busy following J around to hug my belly, and 2, his fur is black and therefore doesn't show up in pictures very well. Don't worry, I'll find a way to feature him soon.
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