I am two weeks behind on bump updates. And I find my enthusiasm and energy to keep those up to be declining. We're 9 weeks out, give or take, from meeting this little girl and I'm exhausted. I have no energy for anything really.
As much as it troubles my OCD soul to break from the bump update form I've been using, I think I'll just write a bullet point post so I get those thoughts out. I want to make sure I'm recording things even if they're not in the best format they can be.
- for the baby shower (coming up this Saturday, holy cow that came fast) I wanted desperately to do something different for a guest book. For my wedding shower I had a photo album with space beside the picture slot. I had the guests sign beside an empty picture slot and took an individual picture with each of them. I then make doubles of these pictures and sent a copy to the guest with their thank you cards. I loved this but it was a lot of work and if I can't even type up a quick bump update - well I'm not hand writing thank you's, printing pictures etc for that. lol So instead I went on to another idea that popped into my head. I want to do a scrapbook of the pregnancy for Charlie to have. First I went through my phone and saved any picture since we found out we were pregnant to my computer. From there I edited each picture by adding text as to how far along we were in the pregnancy, what our thoughts were etc. For the guest book portion, I have a mason jar stamp from our wedding. I'm going to have mason jar cut outs at each guests place setting and ask them to give their best wishes to baby signing AND printing their name. These will be scattered throughout the scrapbook. Now... I got the pictures done and printed. But I still need to make these mason jar cut outs. Procrastinate much?
- I'm tired. I know I mentioned above that I'm tired but my goodness I'm tired. I try nights without unisom and I have nights that I take the unisom and I'm still tired. I can't get comfortable during the night. And have begun to have some pretty uncomfortable pain beneath the bra area. I'm torn on whether or not this is Charlie up in my rib cage or the bra being bad. At this point I think it's a mixture of both.
- I'm not hungry. At all. I eat small snacks through the day and very little at dinner because I have no interest in food. But when I craving hits? My gosh, watch yourself. The other day I went to three different stores, got a blister on my foot from walking in circles looking for Little Debbie coffee cakes. All to no avail! Apparently they no longer make the items I wanted so desperately.
- My feet seem to be forever swollen. No matter the amount of time their propped up or the shoes I wear. It drives me nuts.
- I'm debating maternity jeans. I waver on this a lot. I'm 31 weeks and still wearing my original jeans with the help of a hair band and the tummy sleeve. I feel incredibly grateful that I've made it this far and am thrilled with that. I want to make it the whole way. But the belly just keeps growing and I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable. It's mainly just during my drive to and from work. Let's face it, no almost 8 month pregnant lady is going to be comfortable in the car for 3 hours a day. Perhaps I can just wear yoga pants to and from work and change into my jeans at work. It's a thought. Anything to save money. I most definitely do not want to invest in maternity jeans this late in the game.
- Speaking of spending/saving money. We had intended to use my crib from when I was a baby. Well guess what? You can't buy crib mattresses to fit cribs that are 27 years old. Everything is a standard size now and that standard size is about 5 x 10 inches too big. So I had to add a brand new crib into the budget. Cause I'm awesome, I also let my heart fall in love with a $300 crib. It does eventually turn into a full size bed frame so I've justified myself with that cost savings for down the road.
- Things I didn't think of before getting pregnant: I miss slouching. With the rib pain, increased belly size etc, slouching is not an option. I miss rolling over in bed easily. I thought that was hard at 20ish weeks but my goodness. And I know darn well in another 4-5 weeks I'm going to think it was a piece of cake at 31 weeks.
- At the last OB appointment my midwife made the observation "you're not really into this whole pregnancy thing, are you" Such an insightful one she is and my heart soared knowing that she was (hopefully) going to be the one to deliver this little girl. I can't help it, I am not the crunchy granola type to embrace this experience with mother nature loving arms. It's cool, its a miracle, I am thankful. That said, the whole pregnancy has been uncomfortable. I would much prefer to have her with me, out here. I'm ready for that part. i am not a patient person and I find that once I knew the baby was a girl, once I formed those thoughts, I was so ready to just be her mom right now.
- We had our 3D ultrasound and it was so cool. Everyone came, including my husband. It was the first ultrasound he made it to. And I think it definitely brought it home for him. He's been even more sweet and doting since the ultrasound. The crib ordeal? He says buy what I want. My husband does NOT EVER tell me to buy what I want. He knows better. Anyways, the tech was going on and on about how long Charlie's legs were and how big her feet were. Oh and she has a ton of hair. I imagine it's jet black just like her daddies. So really, the only thing we could be sure about was our daughter has my nose. The rest? All daddy's girl.
I think that's enough rambling for now.
