This week I am 36 weeks and so much has changed since the last journal entry. Since I haven't written in a while I need to document the past couple months. Right around 7 months I started feeling like I was pregnant. I had to completely switch to maternity pants (although I am wearing my pre pregnancy pants today, because I need to do laundry!), I had to retire my work heels and buy a pair of flats from Kohls, and just overall I started feeling bloated, sore, slower moving. During that time I ate a lot of the same things over and over and could not get enough of them- peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fiber one frosted mini wheats cereral, hot cocoa (every night) and basically anything chocolate. I have never had much of a sweet tooth, but I can not get enough of chocolate or cookies, pastries, etc. Usually I'm all about the salty foods, so this is new to me. I thought I would be all about the Qudoba but I haven't had a strong craving lately. I did have Nik bring me home some one night and the habenero salsa kept me up all night with heartburn. I had to sleep sitting up! Oh yeah, that's another joy of pregnancy. I need to have Tums with me at all times. Heartburn comes up at the most random times- after eating, on an empty stomach, after eating something as seemingly neutral as bananas, but sometimes not after eating Mexican food. I haven't figured it out. I just hope it goes away. I also am very swollen, my feet and ankles are always deformed looking when I come home from work and it's weird to see. The loosest socks can give me the deepest crevasses in my skin. I also can't wear my wedding ring anymore so I've been walking around town waiting for the judgemental stares of strangers, so far I have not noticed anything so maybe people don't care about that.
He is moving a ton lately, it's weird to stare down at my belly and see it contort. I always felt like he was kicking my internal organs instead of the top of my belly and this week I found out why. We had an ultrasound on Monday because the doctor was worried he was going to be too big for me to deliver with my size and Nik's size. He is not too big, but we did find out he's going to make things a little more complicated for us because he is breech. His head is that hard thing at the top of my belly that I always thought was his butt, and his feet are at the bottom of my belly. That little stinker! There is something call a version where they can try to move him by pushing on my stomach but I gave that a big "heck no!". I heard it is very painful and frankly I didn't have my heart set on one way of delivering over the other. I did have my heart set on being put under and woken up when it's over but the doctor said that was not an option! :)
Soooo c-section here we come. It will be sometime on the 23rd, the day after my sister's birthday and exactly one month after his cousin (Nik's brother's) Jackson was born. I am scared but excited and almost relieved that I can know exactly when I'm going to be gone so I can plan. I also don't (hopefully) have to worry about my water breaking at a customer, which was a concern of mine! I suppose I could go any time, but in my mind I will be walking into the spa-like birthing center at the Waconia hospital on the 23rd calm and collected ready to deliver a baby.
That's all for now, time to get off the couch and go get some brownies before Nik eats them all!!
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