Bodily Changes

I guess this is the part of the pregnancy when the bodily changes become most rapid and most obvious to others. I now get daily comments from the peanut gallery about how huge I am and that the baby must be nearly ready to come. Not yet, I've still got a lot of growth and further bodily changes to go over the next 6 weeks or so.

My diaphragm is being pushed up, so sometimes it feels like I can't catch my breath. I've lost my belly button and my ankle bones temporarily to make way for an outie and cankles. They were there one day and gone the next. My leg hair is going the au natural route at the moment as shaving is too hard. I have no idea what my bikini line must look like. Apologies to the lifeguards and other swimming pool patrons.

The other night my husband commented as I was taking off my bra to get ready for bed that I don't really need a bra anymore because my breasts can just rest on top of my tummy shelf. Ooooh... you sure know how to make a woman feel sexy honey.

I squeeze into an oversized T-shirt and attach my uber-stylish nasal strip, to combat the chronic nasal congestion, and hop into bed. I have to prop my upper body up with several pillows, because lying flat just results in a lot of noisy and uncomfortable reflux and heartburn.

I toss, turn, and shift to get a comfortable position,  and once I finally do doze a bit, my bladder feels like it is ready to burst so I get up the bathroom and only a small little trickle is produced. Back to bed -repeat the cycle hourly until about 3:30am when baby decides it's time to be active and demand a snack. I get up and have some cereal and then remain wide awake until I finally dose off by 6:00am only to have to get up by 6:30am to get ready for work. Is it naptime yet?

Usually as some point in the night my husband has been pushed out of bed by either my restlessness, my mountain of pillows, or my new found habit of snoring. He ends up sleeping in the futon in his office.

Am I still enjoying being pregnant? Heck yeah! It's hard to believe it's going to be a distant memory very soon. I do look forward to getting my body back into shape over the next year though. It's been a long time with all the fertility hormones, followed by the pregnancy hormones.