Sunday, June 15, 2014

35 Weeks


 (my painting is in the background. I love it, but we discovered that it is not good to take pictures in front of. The gray undertones aren't very flattering)

5 weeks sounds like a good amount of time, but it is coming up really fast. We still need to do some major things in our apartment before this baby is allowed to come, and I can only work on my updates while Quinn is asleep. Aaahhh so much to do, but I am excited to meet our new little baby. Now what to name him?...

Luckily the heartburn only lasted a couple nights,  but I'm still pretty congested from getting sick. Baby is still moving around a ton, and I feel like my stomach has gotten bigger within the last week. I already don't have a decent pair of pants to wear and now even my shirts aren't fitting very well. It will be nice to wear normal clothes again.

We are still working on the game plan for when I go into labor. Epidural or no epidural? I really can't decide because the biggest unknown is how long it is going to last. If I knew that I feel like I could be mentally prepared to stick it out for so long, but there is no way to know. We will need to keep discussing it with the midwife to see if we can come up with some good pain tolerance strategies.

All in all I'm doing pretty good. I do complain about the sore hips and when Baby hits my sciatic nerve and a shooting pain goes down my thigh. I know other women have it a lot worse, and I am grateful to have had two healthy, full-term pregnancies. There is no greater blessing than having children even though the weight gain, discomfort, and awkward body shape make being pregnant not so fun sometimes. However, it is definitely, definitely worth it.

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