well, i'm at least 35 weeks at this point... i say "at least" because i feel more like 38+. i really do not remember feeling this horrible when i was pregnant with miss emma... i mean, i remember being pretty sick at the beginning, but not near as uncomfortable with about a month to go!
when i was at the end with emerson, i was probably just as busy--just a different busy. two or three months before emma was born, we bought a foreclosure and adopted two pups only 5 months old or so. there was plenty of obedience training and house training to accomplish before the baby came AND there was PLENTY MORE work to be done on the house. i was also coming to the end of my medical transcription training. so i definitely had my fair share of work to take care of. this time around, belle is much easier to care for and i have an active toddler to chase around all day. i also work anywhere from 10 to 15 hours a week doing MT. Oh, AND we're trying to sell the house, pack up, and move to an apartment by mid-October... i hope we don't continue to make it a habit to move with each pregnancy.
so, maybe this pregnancy is different solely because its not my first. maybe its just the fact that my body has been forever changed after having that first child... either way, i'm hurting! i've been getting horribly nauseated again AND i had my first full day of painless Braxton Hicks contractions a couple days ago. then yesterday i experienced the close-to-the-real-thing-but-obviously-not-the-real-thing contractions. lately, i feel like all i've been doing is complaining and apologizing for the complaining.
i don't head to the doc again until next tuesday. that will put me at 36 weeks. hopefully i'll still be measuring big and i can plan on being induced early... yep, that sounds like a GREAT idea to me. my belly can't too much more stretching, and i've definitely got the marks to prove it!
quick house update: the contractor we hired came in and fixed all the minor things that needed fixin' around the house as requested by the buyers. one step closer... now we will await the appraisal and as long as the offer is less than what the house actually appraises for (although,i'm not sure why that should matter), we're good to go. so we're closer to the house being sold, closer to being debt free, and closer to being on our way to china... crazy!
Wow, girl...you need to have this baby! :D Hope you're feeling better today...a little relief despite the circumstances! :)
ReplyDeleteHey, you're just being honest when people ask how you feel -- you'd be lying if you told them you felt great, right? :)
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about the medical transcription thing -- I sort of thought about doing that but wasn't sure how much money I would need to invest in extra classes and equipment. If you have time sometime, I'd love to pick your brain about it :)