36 Weeks + 6 Days

I've really been meaning to carve out some time for a blog post.  There's so much about this pregnancy that I've already forgotten when I promised I was going to document more this time around.  When I was pregnant with Garrett I picked up a pregnancy journal that was awesome.  There was a little blurb to read each day about how the baby was growing and every few days there were a few lines to update how I was feeling, how much I weighed, etc.  It's been fun to go back and compare to where I was with Garrett compared to this pregnancy and I'm bummed out that I haven't kept similar records this time around.

Part of my problems is that I've wanted pictures for the post and I just can't seem to remember to take pictures of this ever growing belly.  I think the majority of the problem has been that life is just much more full than when I was pregnant with Garrett.  When I was pregnant with Garrett I didn't have a lot going on in my life.  I went to work, went to school and planned for baby, that was it.  I felt like my whole life revolved around getting ready for the baby.  This time around my life is just busy with.... well, life.  

I have to say that I've really gotten off relatively easy this time around.  My first trimester was a breeze with the exception of some extreme moodiness and heading to bed around 8:30 most nights.  The second trimester was equally as easy and I still managed to make it to the gym at 6am a lot of mornings.  By the time the 3rd trimester rolled around I was mostly just praying that the calendar would slow down because holy cow, we were not ready!!!!  Thankfully we have managed to get the nursery completely together in the last few weeks, clothes have been washed and cloth diapers have been prepped.  Things started getting uncomfortable around 35 weeks.  I had terrible swelling in my feet with Garrett and thought I might skate by without it this time but no such luck!  My feet look like they might pop by about 5 o'clock most evenings.  Mike tries to get me to sit on the couch and keep my feet up but all the laying around on the couch just makes my back hurt.  It's funny, I feel better on the days when we are up and around all day then I do after 8 hours of sitting at my desk.  So far I'm up about 36lbs which I think has helped keep the back pain under control.  All in all, I am still feeling pretty good but would like a bit longer to get some deep cleaning done at home and get to a place at work where I don't feel like I'm dumping a ton of work on my co-workers.