6 more weeks

I posted a blog when I had 6 weeks left with Olivia and it's funny to see the differences in how I was feeling then compared to this time.

I feel like my biggest complaints were my belly (how big it was and how hard it made things), hip pain (especially while sleeping), and peeing all the time.

This time though my belly is big, and I'm pretty sure bigger than last time I haven't reached the point where I feel like it's always in the way or makes rolling over in bed more difficult. Deciding what to wear, now that's a different story.

Hip pain, I don't really have. Between going to the chiropractor regularly, having a new comfortable bed, and my awesome pregnancy pillow that John bought me, hip pain isn't really a problem which is super awesome!

The peeing, well let's just say sometimes I go like 6 times in an hour.

With Olivia, I was ready to be done and so so excited to have a baby.

Now, I'm ready to be done for sure, for different reasons, but I'm also just wanting my time with my little family to last forever before we add another little person to the mix.

Right now I'm ready to be done because this pregnancy has been way worse than Olivia's and I swear every week or two there is something new that makes me NEVER want to be pregnant again. First it was the awful morning sickness that lasted longer than with Olivia, which turned to nausea that lasted well past Christmas and that I still deal with, just not as regularly. Figuring out sugar makes me SUPER sick, then I finally add dairy back into my diet after not having it for 2.5 years only to realize it makes me sick as well. Then I had a weekend of bleeding, which was scary. The worst hemorrhoids ever (yeah fun stuff), and now... I pulled a muscle in my back. And it kills and I can't lift anything, walk very much, or get into a position that doesn't leave it aching. So, while in general, physically, I feel so much better than with Olivia, most likely due to the chiropractor and working out more consistently. I'm ready to fast forward and have this pregnancy over with.

6 weeks, give or take of course, and we will be a family of four. We will know if Olivia has a little brother or sister. 6 weeks and we begin again figuring out our new little person and how he or she fits into our family. 6 weeks. It's going to fly by. I'm excited and terrified all at the same time, because this time I know how hard having a baby can be and now I have to do it with a 3 year old in tow. Luckily, Olivia loves baby's.

7 weeks!

I am 33 weeks. 7 weeks till baby's due date. Baby could come, safely, as early as 5 weeks and as late as 9-10 weeks. Let's hope for my sanity, and John's and Olivia's that it's between 5 and 7 weeks. 😉

By now with Olivia my hips were in pain all of the time, especially when sleeping and I was just uncomfortable and feeling huge. While I do feel huge, I'm not having any hip pain! Which I attribute to me going to the chiropractor regularly since about 16 weeks, our new comfy bed, and the pregnancy pillow John bought for me. Although I am tired in the evenings for sure I still have lots of energy and feel pretty good during the day, I attribute that to eating SO much better than with Olivia, exercising regularly, and being distracted by Olivia.

In those ways this pregnancy has been better, but man the random pregnancy things that effect some and not others.... Those are just one after another. It seems as soon as one passes or I just get used to that being apart or life a new horrible in it's own way symptom begins. By the end of this I may end up having every awful pregnancy symptom there is (not actually because there are a ton, but some days it feels that way).

Moving on from my complaining 😉
Olivia (along with pretty much everyone else that knows me) is sure we are having a boy. It used to be a toss up whether she would say baby is a boy or girl, now it is ALWAYS boy or brother. I on the other hand, no idea! This pregnancy has been so different and similar at the same time, but I'm also older, eating better consistently, chasing after a toddler rather than sitting at a desk, and living in a different state. All of those things could effect my pregnancy and doesn't necessarily mean different gender. I want to say I think it is a girl, mostly to contradict everyone else, but I don't have a feeling either way.

We've been talking a lot about when I go into labor. It's going to be so interesting how it all unfolds. John could be in a final or have to go to a final when it happens and in that case he will miss it. He could miss a lot of the labor but be there for the birth, or hopefully it lands on a day he is working or the weekend and he'll be with me the whole time. We'll see!

The other crazy thing about only having 7 weeks left means, only 7 weeks till Olivia is THREE! How did that happen?
Also, only 7 weeks till law school is over. I cannot believe how fast it went by and how blessed we have been throughout and with the job John has.

Life is crazy and busy and I'm loving having my little family to experience it with.