Moot Thoughts & Musings

okay, during my first pregnancy...from about week 28-32, I felt super fantastic. I was waiting for that moment in my second pregnancy and it never came.

Oh my goodness your last couple of sentences resonate with me! With my second and third babies I would hold and rock my "baby" (or youngest at the time) and just about cry my eyes out thinking about how they wouldn't be the baby anymore and feel so bad that I was about to shatter their fragile little world. Aaaah! But then the baby comes and it ends up being okay despite my overwhelming emotions and fears. Hang in there!

Well, I usually felt nasty the first trimester, great the second trimester (cleaning everything in sight, sewing, etc.) and achy for at least the last 2 months. I never felt gross for 9 months running. I never considered the "child above the baby." I figured he/she needed to grow up sometime, and this was a great opportunity :)!! Of course, you don't think much about those things when you have 3 kids in 4 years! And the last one, who I had when I was 36, well I just stayed on the couch every possible minute. Too old!!

Downtime for mommy (& Ellis)=great use of TV.

Even taking care of two, I felt soooo much better with them out rather than in.

Whine all you want, your body is doing a huge job!!

I felt the same way...baby number two just seemed to SETTLE more into the crooks of my body and I felt like any minute he would pop out before it was time! As for the lack of sleep at night...try a different position, towards the end 2 pillows under my head and one under my upper back worked SOOO much better than a body pillow. And YES E's world is about to change, DRASTICALLY!!! and yours as well...the time it takes for a newborn, you totally forget (with one, you don't have anyone else to worry about) with two, frustration is now at an ALL TIME HIGH for me and there are days when I just want to put myself in time out and have a good cry, LIKE NOW! Hang in there chicky, the sun will soon be out-I have a feeling this long winter is having an effect on my Mama spirit...

I rode Second Trimester Superwoman Syndrome all the way to about week 38, when I started to get really impatient. I felt really happy all the time, which I think outweighed the annoyance at needing to pee and not being able to get off the sofa by myself. =)

I don't know who those women are either, but it's okay to hate them. ;) Just kidding! My only respite from the "yuckies" was sitting/bouncing on a yoga ball and getting in the pool. - Obviously you would need a heated pool right now. :) Anything to take the pressure off seemed to also relieve the other aches as well as the restlessness I had at night.
Hang in there, friend! Your body is working overtime to bring this baby into the world. No guilt over rest time in front of the t.v. :)

I love it when they tell you to get more rest like they're gonna come over and watch the out-of-utero siblings!

Number two settled more into my ligaments/bones/bowels/bladder/psyche, and number three just lived there. I had a nice talk once w/a friend about how number three feels like walking around w/a bowling ball between the knees. How is that baby staying in there?!!?! My ligaments are already creaking at twenty weeks this fourth time. I like to remind myself all it's the same thing that makes subsequent babies easier to deliver (did I tell you we almost didn't make it to the hospital w/#2?).

Well into transition w/my second when my best friend and my husband were trying to dress me and get me to the car I remember begging to go hold my poor sleeping #1. They were like, "Uh, Psycho Labor Lady, you'd scar him for life in the state you're in. How about let's just make it to the hospital for delivery?" Hold Ellis and be sentimental all you want right now.