Approaching 38 weeks

Kind of funny how I have all this "time" on my hands to post between weeks and multiple times per week. It is because I feel so miserable I've stopped working and my days consist of eating, walking, cleaning, and napping. It seems like that's all I have energy for. When I say cleaning, I mean I may fold a load of laundry--pretty sad. Thank god the cleaning lady comes biweekly or i'd have weird stuff growing in our shower or something.

I am physically miserable. Somehow in our Ikea trip, even though I was on my feet all day and only really ate swedish meatballs...I GAINED 4 LBS! My feet haven't returned to their normal size since the day we went. I guess it's water weight, but geesh. I feel a lot of pressure, I am definately insisting the midwife check me this week at my apt. Our carseat is getting installed Wednesday morning by the certified carseat people. I installed the carseat in my car by myself, but I signed F up to get his installed so the guy will show him and force him to do it, I know he's too lazy to read the instructions and go out and do it.

This week is bring your dog to work day, so Buddy is going to F's office thursday afternoon for some fun and games and dog treats. I'll have to brush him all pretty and put his nice red bandana on him. That will be the highlight of my day i'm sure. Sadly....

Well I'm trying to get things going labor wise--I drank raspberry leaf tea, I walked, I did some other things--nothing. I guess baby will come when baby wants. I'm become one of those frustrated ladies that would do anything to go into labor to be done with pregnancy. I just want to sleep on my stomach, go running, drink beer, oh and see the baby of course!

I posted a pic, but I wish there was a tool on Iphoto to crop out my three chins and fat rolls on my arms--gross, can't wait to hit the gym.

12 Weeks Pregnant Tomorrow

Well tomorrow is my 12 week mark! Which doesn't mean too much because I don't go see my midwife until my 13th week. I did have an ultrasound at 7 weeks which showed a heartbeat of 135 bpm. I think that at this next appt. she'll use a doppler device to try to get a heartbeat. So my fingers are crossed until then. I have no reason to believe that anything is wrong, but you never know, so many things can happen in your first 12 weeks.

Tomorrow is the UF championship game..GO GATORS! BEAT OKLAHOMA! I'm not really into football but when you live in a college town and your team is in the SEC championship, you can't help but get excited. F's friend is coming for a visit this week so I've just been tidying up the house a little.

I've been so tired this week. I feel like a zombie. I'll get up at 7:30/8am after having atleast 8 hours of sleep and all day I feel like I pulled an all-nighter. I actually left work the last two days at 3pm and came home and took a nap. If I don't take a nap, by 9pm I'm passed out on the couch or in bed. My gym class started back up again monday. I finally told my classmates about my pregnancy, they seemed really surprised and happy for me. They all kind of wondered why I would sign up to do the "Get Fit Challenge" again if I were pregnant. My midwife told me that as long as I had worked out before I was pregnant at this level, which I have since last feb, then it is perfectly fine to continue. It helps me so much to go to the class. It's 3 times a week for an hours and it's light weights and cardio and stretching. I think I'll do this class until I'm 5 months along then I will switch to a yoga or swim class. The class improves my mood and helps me sleep at night. Plus...I'm 3 months in and have only gained 0.8 lbs as of today! Which is great, because I'm technically overweight to begin with, so I'm only supposed to gain 10-15 lbs total. This is a good start.

Classes started back up, so I'm back to being busy again, F is taking another grad class too, so we're going to have a fun spring. We booked flights in March to see his family in Sacramento. Hopefully it will be a nice trip.