31-ish weeks

I’m realizing that I haven’t taken very many belly shots this time around…actually, looking back at my pictures from the first pregnancy, I didn’t take many then either. The shots of me with my short hair are from this pregnancy, 31 and a half weeks, and the longer hair shot is from 30 and a half weeks with the boys. My tummy is definitely smaller than last time (good thing considering there is only one this time!) but I also started out weighing more…hmm. and grrr. :)

I’m constantly asked (or people assume) that this pregnancy is so much easier than my twin pregnancy was, but I’m here to tell you, that ain’t so!! I had a really easy, no complication, first pregnancy. Add to that fact that I gained just 43 total pounds with TWINS, I had a job where I sat on my bum pretty much all day and was pampered by all my co-workers, I stopped working at the office and started working from home around 30 weeks, then quit working entirely at 33 weeks, then had the boys at 37 weeks, and really, it wasn’t bad.

One thing I remember being hard the first time around was how extremely tired I was (of course). But, I would come home from work, take a couple hour long nap, eat dinner, then go to bed. Then start my day over. This time around, I’ve taken maybe 5 naps total. Twin 3-year old boys doesn’t leave much time for relaxing or sleeping. Another hard thing from the twin pregnancy: my back hurt the entire second trimester, but by the third trimester, I was feeling great. The last few weeks of that pregnancy, I couldn’t walk very far without getting Braxton Hicks, but that’s nothing compared to this time.

So, here’s my list from this time around…be aware, I’m definitely going to sound like I’m complaining, just call me Captain Complainy-Head, I’m totally okay with it.

• Pretty much from day 1, my sciatic nerve has KILLED. A day hasn’t gone by that it hasn’t hurt.
• My tail bone was bruised so badly from the boys delivery that it has hurt constantly since they were born. Pregnancy has only increased the pain.
• Sleeping pretty much sucks. And I really try to never say that word (my dad would chastise me for saying it), but seriously, it does. Anyway, I haven’t slept great since I got pregnant. My back hurts and I toss and turn. Lately my hips and shoulder hurt too.
• I’m tired!!
• I have two very active 3-year olds that keep me constantly busy, as well as refereeing. They play together which is nice, but they also fight and squabble and disagree and….oh my.
• Braxton Hicks started about a month ago (so around 26 weeks) and they are constant! All day long. Quite a few times an hour. Even in the middle of the night when I’m in bed! Annoying. Uncomfortable. Keep me from doing stuff. I can’t walk very far. The boys want to be picked up and I shouldn’t really give in, but I do and probably shouldn’t.
• We moved into a house! So fun and great and exciting, but a lot of work!
• Potty training. David is trained, Ethan is the great resistor. I’m hoping to have him out of diapers by the time the little miss shows up. Seriously, he has no interest and is very vocal about it.

Okay, so enough of that, I just had to share. I feel so much better now;) Now I’m off to vacuum up the Life cereal that was poured out by my stinker David during the time I wrote this, and to clean the house from top to bottom. Hopefully I end up checking at least 3 things off my list of 20 I hope to accomplish today. Oh, and a shower would be nice too, but I’m not counting on it.

Happy Monday!