Me, only bigger! (week 33)
So, if it's possible I seemed to have "popped" again...meaning now that I'm past the 8-month mark I seem to be REALLY showing. For the very first time, somebody I didn't tell I was pregnant asked me when I was due! Granted it was our neighbor so they've probably watched me grow, but as I was leaving the house Sunday to hike the Stanford Dish with Amy, she saw me outside and said, "Congratulations! When are you due?"
It's funny, because the week before (2 weeks ago) I took my friend Wendy wine tasting at Savannah-Channelle and I intentionally wore a very loose shirt, knowing that nobody would even think twice about me being pregnant. Wendy said, "I wonder if anybody's going to say anything," and I told her, no way, I have a big enough frame that it's way too big of a faux pas to call me pregnant. Plus everybody assumes a pregnant woman won't drink even a sip of wine (again, even my doctor has said a glass every other week or so is fine).
However, I walked in a meeting the other day and there were no seats left, and not a single person offered to stand up to give me their seat, so I stood for the entire hour. And then at lunch I went to get my brows done at Benefit, and nobody said anything to me. On the other hand, if people do notice, they always say the same thing, "When are you due? Do you know what you're having? Do you have a name picked out yet?"
In other news, I'm starting to have more problems breathing at night. I actually have to sleep sitting up or I keep waking up feeling like I can't breathe. And I think I'm starting to get Braxton-Hicks contractions. And my ankles are sooo swollen, it's crazy, even after I take a walk. Then there's the fatigue - I didn't get it during the first trimester but wow, in the early and mid afternoons I'm so tired I have problems thinking! I can't wait till we combine that with total lack of sleep...yet I have yet to go home early or take a sick day. I keep thinking, this isn't as bad as it's going to get, and just when I'm going to ask to maybe go home early my boss gives me more stuff to do. They're looking for a temporary hire to take my place when I'm out but they haven't found anybody yet.
The upside is that the baby moving a LOT more now...I guess that will slow down again, most women are at their max room in terms of amniotic fluid in the womb in weeks 32-33, then it starts to get smaller for the baby. I routinely get kicks to my internal organs now, and Mike has taken to reading "Goodnight Moon" to my stomach sometimes in the evenings before we go to sleep. :)
It's funny, because the week before (2 weeks ago) I took my friend Wendy wine tasting at Savannah-Channelle and I intentionally wore a very loose shirt, knowing that nobody would even think twice about me being pregnant. Wendy said, "I wonder if anybody's going to say anything," and I told her, no way, I have a big enough frame that it's way too big of a faux pas to call me pregnant. Plus everybody assumes a pregnant woman won't drink even a sip of wine (again, even my doctor has said a glass every other week or so is fine).
However, I walked in a meeting the other day and there were no seats left, and not a single person offered to stand up to give me their seat, so I stood for the entire hour. And then at lunch I went to get my brows done at Benefit, and nobody said anything to me. On the other hand, if people do notice, they always say the same thing, "When are you due? Do you know what you're having? Do you have a name picked out yet?"
In other news, I'm starting to have more problems breathing at night. I actually have to sleep sitting up or I keep waking up feeling like I can't breathe. And I think I'm starting to get Braxton-Hicks contractions. And my ankles are sooo swollen, it's crazy, even after I take a walk. Then there's the fatigue - I didn't get it during the first trimester but wow, in the early and mid afternoons I'm so tired I have problems thinking! I can't wait till we combine that with total lack of sleep...yet I have yet to go home early or take a sick day. I keep thinking, this isn't as bad as it's going to get, and just when I'm going to ask to maybe go home early my boss gives me more stuff to do. They're looking for a temporary hire to take my place when I'm out but they haven't found anybody yet.
The upside is that the baby moving a LOT more now...I guess that will slow down again, most women are at their max room in terms of amniotic fluid in the womb in weeks 32-33, then it starts to get smaller for the baby. I routinely get kicks to my internal organs now, and Mike has taken to reading "Goodnight Moon" to my stomach sometimes in the evenings before we go to sleep. :)