December 19, 2008
7:18 pm
7.5 oz
19 1/2 inches

36 weeks!

A full 9 months has passed and i am now considered to be "full-term." i still haven't fully packed my bag and i have to re-wash all the baby clothes and blankets and stuff because the cat got into them. i've been feeling really odd lately. Confusion and disorientation during the day and night. Sleep is a joke. Either i can't sleep or i can't wake up. I'm trying to finish my finals before anything happens but physically, i just don't know if that's going to be possible. The last official day of school for me is December 8th. The baby is all of a sudden low. I don't know if he's dropped or not but i'm feeling the kind of pain i did with Ice and Kev soon before labor. I can tell he's very uncomfortable too.

Today i went to Art just fine, then sat around for an hour talking with the UPS people that were recruiting on campus. I decided to go home then and rest and i felt like my blood pressure was dropping fast- i had coffee and plenty of mentos that morning so i don't know why, but i barely made the drive home- fainted on my couch as soon as i got in the door.

Yes, i know that was dangerous but i was out of other options. Lots of contractions which are now accompanied by medium to painful cramping. i don't know how this is going to end but i'm hoping i can get the two finals i have to do tomorrow done, then a Thanksgiving break and then we'll see. i really want to finish this art class.

34 weeks tomorrow!

These are 2 of the pictures from the photo shoot S. and i did. She was 37 weeks and i was 32. Both on our 3rd kid. How unfair is that??

33...

and huge! No new stretch marks but i did have a personal first when my side of the bed broke while i was sleeping on it. Really. Sleeping. I'm only 3.6 lbs heavier than i've ever been. That's a total weight gain of 3.6 above where i was BEFORE i was pregnant. i heard a spring pop and felt the movement. Then, that night when i sat on the bed the box-spring frame cracked. Luckily we had an extra in the boy's room. Sheesh. Breaking beds, running out of clothing that will fit my belly this time. I'm humonguous.

31 weeks. and COUNTING!!!!

Good grief this pregnancy thing is looooong this time. Contractions: regular and painful. Pressure and pain: daily events. Boobs leaking: nightly.

However, baby is on target (if a bit large!) and i officially have 9 weeks to go. That doesn't mean a damn thing however. My babies are usually large and early. But....if i can manage to hold out that means i won't be in school when he comes. Last week of classes is 8 from now. Nifty planning on our part no? (kidding!)

oh and.....our couch needs pull me up handles.

26.

This has been a weird week. Physically i am not doing so great. I know i'm way busier and more stressed this pregnancy than any others and my body is not handling it well, but it seems i have no choice. I have to stay in school and for the sake of spending time with my son other than once every two weeks, i have to go to kindergarden as often as i can. Plus, it's fun.

Lots of pelvic pain when i carry heavy things with my hands. I'm okay taking my huge load to school everyday- trust me, between the 24x24 full art bag + my regular school bag with all 4 textbooks, notebooks and etc, then a purse, it's heavy. But i carry all that on my shoulders so it works all right.

The car continues to be unreliable unfortunately. This worries me a lot but there isn't much to be done about it right now. A friend from school of mine and i went (in her car) to a reservoir up in the mountains, got a fishing license and swam and fished (no catch), for several hours last weekend, and got burned. Top of my belly and everything. But it was a blast. i forgot how much i love to fish. We even found a kayak paddle on the beach which the boys went nuts for.

Let's see, tired, achy, uncomfortable. Child kicks all the time, every night and it's painful now. Other pain and itchiness. Just general 24/7 exhaustion and temperature sensitivity. Not much else this week i think.

23 Weeks

For some reason i was fully appreciating the fact that i was a full 24 weeks but today, looking at my tickers and such, i discovered much to my horror that i am only 23 1/2. i say horror because it just isn't like me to not know *exactly* where i am in my pregnancies or fertility cycles, whatever. I'm anal about that stuff. Anyway, this is actually good news because i measured at 22 weeks during my last pre-natal and i was exactly 23 weeks- so one or two weeks ahead or behind is not uncommon. And now it's only one. He's been crazy active at night. Surprising even me. Maybe soccer in the future?

Feeling huge and surprised when people do not notice the belly/and/or just assume i'm fat?