34 Weeks

Okay, so we’ve made it to 34 weeks…..in my head this seems both HUGE and completely insignificant.

I have 6 weeks left until my due date. Only 6 weeks…….and yet 6. more. whole. long. weeks……..UGH!

I want this time to fly by and if I’m really being honest, this week went by fairly quickly and so I’m hoping that the rest of the weeks continue along the same way.

I’ve been REALLY tired recently and so I’m trying to be very diligent about bedtimes and about taking all my vitamins and supplements.

I seem to sleep for about 7 hours and then wake up….today I tried really hard to get back to sleep when I woke up at…….5AM!!!!! and I did manage to fall back asleep. In fact, I did such a good job, that I didn’t wake up until 7:45am. Fortunately, Jon had already gotten up with the kiddos to get them off to school.

I didn’t feel tired, BUT…..I’m all puffy. I can feel it in my hands and feet. YUCK!

I had a visit with my midwife on Wednesday and she offered to give me a natural tonic to help with the fluid retention and I turned her down saying that I wasn’t really uncomfortable….just mostly by the end of the night. Now I’m kicking myself. I should have just taken it.

It was a great appointment, which was followed by a really weird Thursday.

I woke up with a pain on the left side of my abdomen down by my groin. It felt almost like a muscle or tendon ache, BUT….I couldn’t make it “stretch” out so I’m not sure what the deal was. On top of that, I woke up with a weird rash on my stomach. It wasn’t itchy and it seemed to fade and this morning is completely gone but weird to wake up with 2 weird symptoms that seems to be completely unrelated.

The pain is gone and so is the rash and I think that the rash had something to do with the aloe vera gel that she used as a conducting gel for the doppler. I also wonder if the pain had something to do with um…..er…….gas or something else like that. Who knows. All I know that I feel much better this morning except for the tight puffy hands and feet.

I have my next appointment with her in two weeks and then we start in on the weekly appointments.

See, it’s all coming so quickly and yet the end of June seems SO. FAR. AWAY!!!!!!

The little man is still favoring the right side and we’re guessing that’s where he’ll stay for the remainder of the time.

He has his butt up close to my rib cage and his back is pressed up along the right outside edge of my stomach. Until the last week or so, he’s been up fairly high, but I can feel him grinding his head against my pelvis. That’s a lovely feeling, let me tell ya.

I feel his kicks up at the top of my stomach and can feel him moving his little hands, and elbows down in the lower half of my stomach.

Someone asked what it feels like and the best explanation that I can think of is if you had someone inside a balloon (you know those giant balloons that people sometimes crawl inside) and you were blind folded and had to try to identify which body part they were pushing through the balloon. It’s a pretty thick balloon (my stomach is) so it’s not quite that easy, but you can feel the pokes and jabs and pressure as the baby presses against the edges of his current, temporary, little home.

Sometimes he pushes so hard that it hurts, but that is rare and is more a pressure hurt than a blinding pain. Most of the time, I can just feel him pushing and stretching and slowly building his muscle as he exercises inside of me.

I counted out the days yesterday and there is 42 days left. Not very much longer, right??????