I’ve got the dropsies!
Saturday, April 3, 2010
30 weeks, 6 days pregnant
Lately I am the clumsiest fool you have ever seen! I have no idea what has gotten into me! Oh right: a baby.
Clumsiness is super-common in pregnancy, especially in the last couple of months. Supposedly it is because your center of gravity has shifted, and your joints have loosened (ew!).
Since puberty, I have been a clumsy person — brushing against walls, misjudging doorways and banging into the sides, etc. But I’ve never been a huge “dropper.” Lately that is all I’m capable of — dropping stuff! Dropping everything! Picking something up and then dropping it again!
It has gotten to the point where I reach into my underwear drawer, grab a pair of (ginormous maternity) undies, and then drop them while I’m reaching into for a (ginormous maternity) bra. I reach down, pick up the underwear, straighten up again, and then drop the bra while I’m reaching for my socks.
The fact that I am dropping everything lately — hairclips, pens, food, the remote — means that I need to bend over and pick it all up. And let me tell you: pregnant women do not like bending over. We hate it, almost as much as I have started to hate salad.
I think I should invest in one of those reaching tools, and carry it around with me for picking up everything I drop. Or buy a taller dog, who can actually pick things up and hand them to me.
Dear Baby …
Friday, April 2, 2010
30 weeks, 5 days pregnant
Dear Baby,
I bought your playard yesterday on my lunch break, and couldn’t wait to come home and set it up. It has a bassinet on the top, and that’s where you will sleep when we first bring you home from the hospital.
Daddy was working, but I was determined to put it together myself. It was frustrating, because I couldn’t reach into it very well (on account of you), but I didn’t stop messing around with it until it was standing proudly next to my side of the bed.
I’m sure people think I’m crazy for setting it up — sheets and all! — 65 days before you are scheduled to arrive. But I don’t care.
Last night I went to sleep with one hand resting on the side. I can’t wait until you’re lying there, next to me.
xoxo
So … very … pregnant …
Thursday, April 1, 2010
30 weeks, 4 days pregnant
Pregnancy is a funny thing. I find certain weeks go by and are very uneventful, and others give you daily slap-in-the-face reminders of your knocked-up-ness.
This week (Week 31) has been a slap-in-the-face week. Not really in a bad way, just in a very … noticeable, holy-crap-I-am-super-duper-preggo way.
For example:
- The cold that won’t go away. I have had 40% of a cold for the last couple of weeks. It’s weird. I wouldn’t call myself “sick,” but yet I’ve been coughing a lot, sniffling, feeling run-down, etc. Apparently that is very common during the third trimester, because my immune system is being suppressed in order to protect the baby from being rejected by my body. I miss DayQuil.
- The pool balls in my stomach. Yes, you read that correctly. I have taken to describing Baby Boy as “three pool balls thudding around in my stomach.” Sometimes when I’m walking, he feels soooo low, and I keep visualizing the weight of three billiard balls. That’s just how he feels!
- The constant movement. It’s impossible to forget I’m pregnant this week, because Baby Boy has (thankfully) been moving around like crazy. I’ve been feeling him “cover a larger area” than before, too — like jabs that seem to happen almost on my sides (especially my right side). He feels so strong! Mama’s little bruiser 🙂
- The ever-expanding-ness. When I walk into the bathroom to pee (oh, about eighty-five times a day), I’ve been surprised by my profile. My stomach juts so far out! And when I walk around, I just feel so heavy.
- The tiredness. I am so, so, so glad the nursery is done (and almost everything we need is purchased), because in the words of Kate Gosselin, “I’m done. I’m just done.” My energy this week has been zero, and I don’t know if it will come back or what. I am eternally grateful to my second-trimester-self, for getting so much done. Seriously, people thought I was a crazy keener, but that advice will be my legacy to other second-trimester chicks: get it done now. Yes, you have lots of time left, but you will not have the energy then.
Exactly how pregnant …
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
30 weeks, 3 days pregnant
Exactly HOW PREGNANT do you have to be for …
- … a bus driver to wait until you sit down before hurtling away from the curb into traffic, causing your preggo ass to stumble around the aisle helplessly?
- … a passenger to give up their seat to you, on a totally crowded bus?
Because I have been pregnant forever for 213 days, and so far no one has given up their seat to me, and a bus driver only waited until I was sitting down once.
I can’t wait until I’m not bundled up under my winter coat, so I can stick my belly out and demand my special commuter treatment!
Boomerang effect
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
30 weeks, 2 days pregnant
For my baby shower, Little Sis got me the Jolly Jumper Boomerang pillow. I love-love-love things that have multiple uses — because it means less stuff is required — and this pillow can be used for nursing and for propping up your baby on a blanket on the floor. So cute!
What I didn’t realize, when I registered for it, is that it can also be used before your baby even arrives. Hell yeah! The boomerang shape means you can put it between your legs, and have the “side” of the boomerang support either your bump or your back. I’ve been sleeping with it for the last two nights, and it’s soooo comfy!
And yes, my side of the bed is pretty much all pillows now. Ahhhh. Oh, what’s that, Darling Husband? I can’t hear you from within my pillow fortress.
As featured on …
