1. Strangers stare at me as I walk by them in stores. When alone I get smirks or full out smiles. When I have my two children in tow I get side long glaces and looks of confusion "is she really pregnant, she already has two kids...?"
2. Multiple night wakings to go pee. This has just started for me and I was only up 3 times last night. I am REALLY looking forward to the once an hour pee trips of weeks 38 to 42. Yes, I fully expect to got close 42 weeks pregnant. I was with my first two children, why would this one be any different.
3. Vivid dreams. I am all dreams all the time and I am tossing and turning and waking up and having a hard time falling back asleep. I know this is supposed to be our mind/bodies way of preparing us for sleeplessness of a new born, but it sucks. I am all for sleeping comfortably till the baby is born and suffering through the shock of sleeplessness at that point. Why start the process now body! WHYYYYYY.
4. Leg cramps are getting stronger and more frequent. Seriously, isn't it enough that we have to endure multiple bathroom visits, vivid dreams, violent heart burn and the baby constantly spinning around like a he thinks my uterus is the Zipper. Leg cramps, our legs are no where near our uterus! This just feels like punishment.
5. Cranky mcCranky pants is back. Yes, after a brief respite during the "Golden Month" (no golden trimester for this chick) we are back to Moody with a capital M. You should see my co-workers run the other way as I come down the hall. All except for one of my staff who thinks it is humorous to make fun of my crankiness. He will learn... oh yes, he will!
6. Annoyance with maternity clothing. Even some of my maternity clothing is uncomfortable. Two pairs of my more fashionable jeans (And by fashionable I mean they are less than 5 years old) are annoying the heck out of me. Which leaves me with maternity clothing that is between 8 and 15 years old. I would be a prime candidate for "What not to wear, the Maternity edition". (BTW I am way to
7. I can't watch Baby Stories, Bringing home baby or read any blog posts that involves talk about any prenatal mishaps or God forbid infant or child death. It was already hard to watch those shows or read those blog posts anyhow, but now I find myself thrown into full blown panic attacks. And, well that is just not good. So for now, I must avoid.
8. I look at my to-do list and see all the projects that are on it and go into a panic about having to do them before the baby is born. I know I won't do them. Many of them will remain not-done when the baby is 1 year old. But that doesn't stop me from stressing about it.
Hmmm, fun stuff. Maybe I will relax a bit when I am off work in 8 weeks, but probably not. You would never guess from this post, but I really do love being pregnant. I do, I really do!
8 comments:
My husband will one day thank you because this post kinda sorta doesn't want me to have a third child! Ahh... just kidding. Even though there are all these icky things, like the really vivid dreams, the mat clothes, and the all too often peeing, it's still so awesome that you are having another baby! And I can't believe you're in your third trimester already! WOW! Yay!!
Oh, do hang in there (like you have a choice?)!
I wish you'd post pictures of yourself; I wanna see...........
Didn't you just announce that you were pregnant? How are you suddenly in the 3rd trimester. Sounds like everything is normal though.
oh, the vivid dreams. those were awesome. i'm with you with the hard blog posts or tv episodes. during pregnancy it was hard and now that i have a child i just can't do them. and can't figure out who can watch them.
I seriously cannot believe you are in your third trimester!! You are in the home stretch, yay!
I have a box (huge box) full of barely worn Fall maternity clothes for work. It you are interested email me.
only a few short (long?) weeks left. I hope things go well!!!
Wow - third trimester already!!! The time will fly by and suddenly you won't be annoyed by being pregnant again b/c you'll be so tired ;).
Just kidding - it's not that bad and I really found going from 2-3 much easier than going from 1-2. For real.
oh the vivid dreams!! they were the worst. i was always leaving my newborn baby in random places or trying to feed her bread crumbs. so weird!!
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