Longest Week Ever

My transition from 32 weeks to 33 weeks was long, tough, and full of happenings. I don't even know where to begin, so I'll just leave you with this pictures.

To Groove or Not To Groove at 32

32 Weeks, ladies and gentlemen. This week is off to a bang with tooth pain that convinced me I was going to die and a newfound tired.

Tooth pain is all taken care of, and thanks to this baby, I have made about 5 trips to the dentist this summer. That's a record for those of you who don't know about my irrational fear of dentists. But I heart SEARHC Dental, and this baby can basically get me to do anything for her already so long as it keeps us both safe and healthy!

It might have been the ache of my tooth that tired me out so much this week. All I know is that I haven't been this tired since I first got prego. It isn't the same kind of tired either, but I don't know exactly how to describe it... So I won't :) I just know that I have a lot of energy and still believe that I can do a million different things, but my body tells me otherwise. What does it know, for crying out loud!? :) I am slowing WAY down these days... At least so much that it is VERY noticeable anyway. When I imagine what it looks like for my co-workers to see me get off the floor after nap time with the kiddos, I imagine horses... :/ Haha. Oh well, I still like the floor. I can't help that. Most couches and chairs are just too uncomfortable for too long.

So, now that I'm tired, I needed to know what I should do when I feel just too tired to do anything to make sure I am keeping active and luckily I have a baby app that tells me these kinds of things. Because I blog from my phone these days, I think all the pictures I attach are at the bottom, but please read the advice from my baby app before continuing....

I'll wait... :)

Isn't that funny? "Avoid jerking"... So basically, it tells me to dance, then tells me NOT to dance. All I do is jerk... Haha, cheese. I do enjoy dance parties when I'm home alone though, I try to avoid jerking too much but anyone who knows or has seen me groove, it involves quite a bit of jerking from time to time ;) Baby seems to dig it though, and we groove together. We have rhythm and style ;) Sometimes we just dance slowly around to Billie Holiday or Nina Simone. Sometimes we Pretend to be ballerinas to Miles Davis. We tinker with a little interpretive dance sometimes lol. And sometimes we just chill out to some good hip-hop. It's a lot of fun. I'm never too tired to dance!

So that's how this week is shaping up. A good week, all-in-all. Time goes so quickly! Cheers, folks :)

31 Down

I am finishing up my 31st week of creating life, ladies and gentlemen. Week 31 was a tough one. It was full of emotional ups and downs, for starters, and I started a new job that leaves me fulfilled yet VERY tired by the end of the day. I went in for another appointment and was checked out for preterm labor as a precaution because these Braxton Hicks are just a little overwhelming at times! Baby is growing steadily and all is well, though. However, she continues to freak me out as she seems to be practicing the native games and trying to beat the record in the Alaskan High Kick or something. It is either that, or she is definitely trying to figure out some way to escape. It's even freakier when I push and she pushes back like we are playing some game... It just brings back all those terrifying scenes from the horror movies of my childhood again...but this time it's so different because this is MY baby! I am growing MY baby inside of me! It still shocks me from time to time :)

I was thinking the other day how strange it will feel after the baby is here. Will I still get phantom kicks like when people who lose limbs get phantom pains? Silly, I know, but these are the things I think of when I'm alone, just baby and I... And that's quite a lot! Because we are alone so much, I feel that bond growing strongly and that is a beautiful feeling :)

So, aside from the emotional ups and downs that I thought I left back in my first trimester along with those mood swings, this week was alright. I love my new job. I love feeling productive everyday, again, and like I'm finally contributing to society lol. I am also falling madly in love with my baby bump! Some days, I never felt better about my physical appearance! I'll definitely miss it after baby comes, but I'm sure going to rock it out while I've got it :) Cheers, folks! And goodnight!

Those Awesome Moments When...

Well, I shall dedicate this blog to all of the things I cherish about pregnancy. Now that I'm feeling so pregnant these days, this will definitely help remind myself of all the good things in life :)

Those awesome moments when...

- You happen upon the exact ingredients you need to make exactly what you crave...

- You're able to untangle yourself from the bed, countless amount of pillows, and the blankets in time to make it to the potty in the middle of the night and/or morning before all hell breaks loose...

- Your Baby Daddy says, "Just relax, I'll get it..." when you're cleaning the house. (Even as rare as it happens.)

- You put on a pre-pregnancy shirt and you can still rock it.

- You still get noticed from time to time before the baby does. (Can't deny it feels good :)

- You get more visitors from home (up north) so they can come touch the belly :)

- People want to feed you the good stuff :)

- The heartburn you thought you felt coming on gets sidetracked and forgets it was about to attack.

- You realize how much more focused your life has become.

- You realize that you're pregnant and it's perfectly fine to say "No" because you're exhausted from growing a baby all day :)

- You remember what having heartburn used to mean before you got pregnant :) (Inside Joke)

- You catch your baby daddy indulging in sympathy cravings...until you catch him drinking out of the Yoshida sauce bottle O_O haha...not so much awesome as weird.

- You request a thanksgiving dinner mid-summer and there is no argument.

- Those sudden urges when you used to feel capable of doing the splits is replaced by the sudden belief that you can do a back bend... Haha.

These are just a few things that I appreciate. I'll add more as time passes quickly I'm sure :)

Cheers!

Suddenly One Day...

I was more pregnant than I had ever been in my life. I swear to you, it happened overnight. One day I am absolutely fine. The next, I feel myself slowing down... Then I can't sit in my own desk in class and have to move to a table... I find myself peeing every ten minutes (literally)... The heartburn returned after a couple month absence... My back hurts... My hips hurt... My feet hurt... I'm tired... WHAT THE HECK!?

Ladies and gentlemen, I feel like this pregnancy has finally begun. The emotions are HIGH. The baby is always physically reminding me that she's there. I'm realizing the grace that I had before pregnancy only because of how clumsy I am feeling now. And it all happened overnight, I just couldn't believe it.

People are actually touching my belly now. Few people have done it, with exception of Celebration time 'cause family and friends were in from all over. It hasn't happened since until just this last week. And once it started up, it made me realize how strange it felt when people WEREN'T giving my baby and her bump any acknowledgment! Haha... I know, weird. My baby is pretty solid these days. Kicking away and freaking me out when she pushes out hard and I look like Freddy Kreuger after eating children... Ick. (Tell me if I referenced the wrong movie. All of the scary movies my sister forced me to watch as a kid all mesh together in my brain and I rarely can tell them a part.)

So, this baby bump is out and proud. It moves on its own as we walk through the halls at school. Announcing itself and demanding attention and a smile everywhere it goes... And I don't even mind like I used to think I would. I secretly think to myself, "Go ahead baby, you do your thang." :)

The only thing about this baby now is how tired it makes me. As I blog to you this evening, I lay on my couch in one of the few positions that work for me and blog from my phone... Which also happens to be the only thing I can manage to hold up tonight. I tried studying. I tried reading. But my mind won't focus and my body won't support my damn computer. It's an odd place to be... But I couldn't just lay here, so I blog to you. I guess that's the one plus from this because I haven't had much time otherwise.

Yep... I'm pregnant and feeling it.
That's what's up this week folks. Once classes are over (Wednesday, whoop!) I'll get back to you. 30 weeks this week. Ten more or maybe even less. Feeling okay about that :) Cheers, folks! And goodnight!