Belly Pics: Weeks 35 and 36

35 Weeks

36 Weeks

It's been a little bit of a rough week at our house this week. Darrell has been battling a pretty bad cold (he's on the mend, now, thankfully), and I've been, well, thirty-six weeks pregnant and everything that goes along with that. It is slightly entertaining, though; I want to do things for Darrell so he can relax and get to feeling better, but he wants to do things for me so I can relax and get off my feet. We've had fun trying to out-stubborn each other (although he usually ends up winning).

It also turns out that many of the things people say happen toward the end of a pregnancy do, in fact, happen. Swollen feet? Definitely. My doctor actually chuckled a little bit at the size of mine at our appointment on Monday. Maybe one of these days I'll get a picture; they don't get badly swollen every day, though (thankfully!). Difficulty sleeping? Yep, this one is catching up to me as well. I can still fall asleep without any issue, but once I get up to use the bathroom, it's totally a guessing game as to how much I'll toss and turn trying to get back to sleep. And let me tell you, it isn't easy to toss and turn with a massive belly. And general discomfort in the belly? Ugh, don't get me started. As if my bladder wasn't squished enough already, now that BOB is working on getting head down he presses up against it even more frequently. And that whole head-down thing means little baby feet kicking into my ribs--not necessarily painful, but kind of annoying at times. Oh, and speaking of annoying? Hiccups. Seriously. This kid gets them all the time, and he's big enough now that they aren't just cute little ripples of movement that you have to feel carefully for--they're practically massive shakes of the whole belly. Borderline ridiculous.


(Disclaimer: I'm really not complaining. About any of my "symptoms". For as fortunate as we have been in this pregnancy--and even that we were able to get pregnant as easily as we were--I will gladly take a few weeks of swollen feet, poor sleep, and belly-shaking hiccups. In fact, I'd even take months of those things if it meant the end result was a happy, healthy baby. So I'm really not complaining. At all. I've actually rather enjoyed being pregnant and am already looking forward to a "next time". Although that might change after the whole labor-and-delivery thing... But let's hope not.)