39 Weeks - A Watermelon

December 11, 2014

Photo Thoughts:  How does it grow that much in just one week?! See below for a comparison between this and last week.  Also, I'm basically throwing in the towel on wearing anything with a waist most days. So dresses it is! Let's just hope it doesn't get cold again in the next week or so. 

How I'm Feeling:  I'm starting to find myself sometimes wondering things like, "will this be my last..."  It's a strange thing to not know where you will be (or rather, what tiny human might be with you), the next time you do something simple like a load of laundry, etc.  

Really since about 38 weeks, but especially once you enter the 39 week territory, people start to treat you like a ticking time bomb.  It's fun to have reminders of how close you are. But also not fun. Maybe it's just since I have just been feeling so not ready all along, but those constant reminders about how you're basically ready to explode tend to rub me the wrong way... or just make me really anxious.  Instead of "how are you today?," it's "how are you feeling/anything changed?"  And sometimes you start to feel like you're a bit of a disappointment when you say (and mean!), "good, normal."  I think it's also a little different for me, since most women around this time are getting impatient and just ready to be done being pregnant.  Every once in a while, I get that sort of feeling, but most of the time, I'm still over here like, "not quite yet! I could deal with another month or so!" But I know that is crazy.  I know I'm reading too much into it, but these are just honest 39 week hormonal feelings for you.  

Baby/Bump: He is still getting bigger in there, despite running out of room.  Although, growth is definitely not happening as quickly as previous weeks.  BUT, the good news is that the brain is doing LOTS of growing and developing this week!  

The bump is feeling more and more heavy... which I had hoped wasn't possible. However, it's usually only toward the end of the day when I start to feel this heavy sensation. 

Symptoms: Racking them up finally! On a positive note, my lower back nerve is feeling MUCH better!  No more limping for this preggo.  However... that seems to have been replaced with things like tail bone pain, belly heaviness, general back pain, stomach cramping, occasional lightning crotch. etc. Fun.  I'll address this more in the movement section, but my ribs are also in a LOT of pain!  Oh, and a kind of funny symptom is that I have been hearing stomach gurgling/digesting sounds (things you hear normally after eating a big meal), but now I hear them WAY up high.  It;s a crazy reminder at how shifted around my insides are!

Weight: +0.0. +27.0 total. 

What I'm Anticipating: Friday will be my last day at work!  I was lucky that I was able to just stay for as long as I wanted to/could.  It was very open-ended.  And it wasn't that I felt like I couldn't physically work anymore, it was just more that I really began to feel like I wanted and needed to be at home doing things for me and the baby.  It had been getting harder and harder to be doing things for other people, when I am very conscious of all that I still have to do.  I am looking forward to having as much of next week as our little guy will give me to attack that crazy nesting to do list!

Diet/Cravings/Aversions: I haven't had too many crazy cravings this pregnancy.  But for a long while now, I have been really fixated on Wendy's Frostys and cake donuts (not together though).  Well, this week, I finally let myself indulge and pulled through the drive thru of Wendy's on my way home from work to get my Frosty.  It was totally worth it.  Now to track down a cake donut!

Delicious "waiting for baby" chocolates that my sister sent!

Sleep: Still no complaints here! That is probably one of the things I am most thankful for this pregnancy- that my sleep was hardly affected.  

Exercise: I think most of it has to do with the fact that my Prenatal Pilates/Barre class is now over, but I just was not motivated to work out this week. I did ONE home workout video.  Oh well... I did pretty well up until now.

Movement: He is still moving a ton in there! For a long time now, I've been getting lots of kicks up near my ribs- which is great reassurance that he is upside down.  But this week, he took those rib kicks to a new level!  I can feel his feet wedged up under my ribs.  And when we decides to kick them, it hurts so badly, and I literally expect to look down and see a rib or two poking out from his force.  He had one particularly strong assault on my ribs one night, and ever since then, my rib cage has been so sore... I keep expecting to see bruises.  Seriously.  

Boy or Girl: See you soon, baby boy!

Most Entertaining Comment of the Week:  When I went to the grocery store this weekend, I stopped at the in-store Starbucks to get a drink to shop with.  The barista was a bit of an older lady, and she asked me right away when I was due and what I was having.  When I told her I was having a boy, her response was, "Oh, there are just so many nasty little boys in this world- we don't need more!"  I wish I was making that up.  I had no idea how to respond other than to just nervously laugh, grab my drink, and leave.  SO strange!

Highlights of the Week: 

-Coming Home Outfit: Our little guy's coming home outfit finally arrived in the mail.  I hope it fits!

-39 Week Appointment: Still no further progress.  Stuck at 1cm, 50%, and -2.  I went into the appointment thinking, "I really hope she says I haven't made any progress because I'm looking forward to next week's time off to get ready for baby." So I was surprised that when she gave me this report, that I actually found myself a little upset.  Also adding to that was probably the fact that she began an initial conversation about induction possibilities... which I really hope to avoid.  She said we will chat again next week, if I make it to that appointment.  

-Trader Joe's Meltdown: (Keep in mind, I was a little emotionally wound up after my appointment.)  Right after my appointment, I went to Trader Joe's to pick up a few items.  One of those items being my favorite TJ frozen pizza crust, since I was planning on making several pizzas to freeze for the coming weeks.  I was annoyed when I couldn't find my crusts, so I asked an employee about it.  She said she was new and would go ask the manager.  The manager came out and told me that they had been discontinued.  Immediate waterworks.  Not even kidding you.  I was crying in the middle of the freezer section in Trader Joe's.  In an attempt to distract me, the poor guy asked me when I was due, and that ended up making me cry even more, because it scared the crap out of me to have to say out loud that my due date was next week.  I was a MESS.  I mean I wasn't like full out balling, but I was definitely red in the face, with tears running down my cheeks.  It was so embarrassing, but the guy was so nice, and  he proceeded to carry my basket while walking me around the store helping me find everything else I had come for.  He must have thought I was insane and not wanted to leave me alone in his store. Poor guy. 

I guess I should have added "extremely over-emotional" to that symptoms list this week! ;-)