Happy third trimester! This week is week number 28, which means that we are in the home stretch.
This is awesome because we are so eager to meet SugarPlum!
This is less than awesome because we still have so much to do!
I started the to-do list today, and was pretty overwhelmed. Luckily, this is our third time getting to this point, so it's old hat now. The biggest concern on my mind is being sure I have all my music therapy files in order for maternity leave; I want my sub to have an easy time of filling in for me.
Things that have changed:
Holy Swallowed-Watermelon, Batman. I am already feeling huge. I fear I will need a wheelbarrow to cart this giant belly around in by the end of this month! From the front and back I look mostly like I normally do (okay, I'm a little wider...) but that view does not prepare people for the profile view. I look like I'm smuggling a beach ball under my shirt!
The heartburn has returned. With a vengeance. I have it almost all the time - when I've eaten, when I'm hungry; when I'm standing up & when I'm lying down. It leaves a perpetual bad taste in my mouth, and I keep having these dreams that my esophagus looks like Swiss cheese.
My diaphragm is completely crowded. This is uncomfortable & makes it hard to catch my breath when I do strenuous activities like walking up stairs, tying my shoes, and standing up from my chair. Worse, though, is that I sort of need that muscle for singing (which, you know, is kind of important to a music therapist). I'm sounding a little breathy a lot of the time, and when you punctuate my singing with little hiccups and burps (thanks to the heartburn - see above), you can imagine that I sound really pretty right now.
Okay, so most of the above changes could be seen as complaints. But I'm really not complaining. I'm laughing at these changes (most of the time). The truth is that I feel fantastic! Those 3rd trimester hormones must have kicked in because I am feeling gooooooood.
Things that remain the same:
SugarPlum is still a Dancing Queen. Or King. My bladder is a dance floor and every day is a dance-dance-revolution. This one is more twitchy & jabby than my other two were. Tyson & Riley were more rolly & stretchy.
SugarPlum had his/her first bout of hiccups the other night! My belly twitched in perfect rhythm for about 4 minutes. It was fun to watch.
Speaking of watching things, Belly-Watching is becoming a regular pastime around here. The boys get so excited when they can feel or see the baby moving around. I can sit for hours and just watch the bumps and jabs.
I still get to eat sweets (in moderation, of course). My glucose test came back perfect, and my blood pressure is staying low. I have a serious sweet tooth, so the possibility of gestational diabetes is more frightening to me than any horror movie ever made. Except for The Exorcist, because, y'all, that was some really scary stuff.
Overall, things are going along nicely - I'm actually beginning to think this is really going to happen! The nesting instinct is starting to take over (in the last two weeks we completely redid our upstairs bathroom, I reorganized my pantry - twice, and I put the boys on new & very comprehensive routines for mornings & evenings).
OH, YEAH. We still don't have a boy name. We have a girl name, but as usual, the boy name continues to elude us. We choose a family name for the middle name, and a name we like for the first name. We already know that if it's a boy, the middle name will be Rayford, after my godfather.
Do you have any boy-name suggestions? HELP! We really need some ideas.
This is awesome because we are so eager to meet SugarPlum!
This is less than awesome because we still have so much to do!
I started the to-do list today, and was pretty overwhelmed. Luckily, this is our third time getting to this point, so it's old hat now. The biggest concern on my mind is being sure I have all my music therapy files in order for maternity leave; I want my sub to have an easy time of filling in for me.
Things that have changed:
Holy Swallowed-Watermelon, Batman. I am already feeling huge. I fear I will need a wheelbarrow to cart this giant belly around in by the end of this month! From the front and back I look mostly like I normally do (okay, I'm a little wider...) but that view does not prepare people for the profile view. I look like I'm smuggling a beach ball under my shirt!
The heartburn has returned. With a vengeance. I have it almost all the time - when I've eaten, when I'm hungry; when I'm standing up & when I'm lying down. It leaves a perpetual bad taste in my mouth, and I keep having these dreams that my esophagus looks like Swiss cheese.
My diaphragm is completely crowded. This is uncomfortable & makes it hard to catch my breath when I do strenuous activities like walking up stairs, tying my shoes, and standing up from my chair. Worse, though, is that I sort of need that muscle for singing (which, you know, is kind of important to a music therapist). I'm sounding a little breathy a lot of the time, and when you punctuate my singing with little hiccups and burps (thanks to the heartburn - see above), you can imagine that I sound really pretty right now.
Okay, so most of the above changes could be seen as complaints. But I'm really not complaining. I'm laughing at these changes (most of the time). The truth is that I feel fantastic! Those 3rd trimester hormones must have kicked in because I am feeling gooooooood.
Things that remain the same:
SugarPlum is still a Dancing Queen. Or King. My bladder is a dance floor and every day is a dance-dance-revolution. This one is more twitchy & jabby than my other two were. Tyson & Riley were more rolly & stretchy.
SugarPlum had his/her first bout of hiccups the other night! My belly twitched in perfect rhythm for about 4 minutes. It was fun to watch.
Speaking of watching things, Belly-Watching is becoming a regular pastime around here. The boys get so excited when they can feel or see the baby moving around. I can sit for hours and just watch the bumps and jabs.
I still get to eat sweets (in moderation, of course). My glucose test came back perfect, and my blood pressure is staying low. I have a serious sweet tooth, so the possibility of gestational diabetes is more frightening to me than any horror movie ever made. Except for The Exorcist, because, y'all, that was some really scary stuff.
Overall, things are going along nicely - I'm actually beginning to think this is really going to happen! The nesting instinct is starting to take over (in the last two weeks we completely redid our upstairs bathroom, I reorganized my pantry - twice, and I put the boys on new & very comprehensive routines for mornings & evenings).
OH, YEAH. We still don't have a boy name. We have a girl name, but as usual, the boy name continues to elude us. We choose a family name for the middle name, and a name we like for the first name. We already know that if it's a boy, the middle name will be Rayford, after my godfather.
Do you have any boy-name suggestions? HELP! We really need some ideas.
I was wondering where the updates went!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're feeling good, however I believe we need pictorial evidence of that whole swallowed watermelon beach ball smuggling claim. Just sayin.
Love you and SugarPlum to pieces!!!