My Last Pregnancy: Month 7

Journaling from Month 7: Weeks 28-31

Week 28: 12.10.12
At this early stage of my 3rd trimester I want to write a letter to myself to read towards the end of my pregnancy when I am unbelievably uncomfortable and begging Blake and/or my doctor to take this baby out.

Dear Very Pregnant Megan,

I know your back hurts and I know you are probably mad at yourself for having a shorter fuse with Blake or the kids but I beg you to remember to stop and really soak in this amazing time in your life that you won't experience again. Inside you, you have a miracle growing and remember what you wished and prayed for since before you found out you were pregnant. You wanted to go into labor naturally with out being induced. You laugh but remember, you have NEVER felt a real contraction and you want to feel at least a couple. Where will you be when it happens? How fast or slow will he or she come? It's all up to your body and you have to relax and just be lazy and enjoy what could be the last days or even hours of being pregnant in your lifetime.

Love,

"You-much-more-comfortable-28-week-pregnant-self"

Megan on the day she turned 28 weeks pregnant.

Week 29: 12.17.12 - What a great week it was being pregnant and finding the back relieving remedy of wearing flats all week. It's amazing what being diligent about not wearing heels to work each day can do. Even with some slight back pain at the end of the day, I really can't complain one iota about being pregnant. I hope I pass these genetics onto Addie and perhaps her younger sister but I am one of those rare blessed women who doesn't have a day of morning sickness or really any other bad symptom of pregnancy. I absolutely LOVE the way I feel pretty much the entire time. This particular pregnancy I have been super laid back, calm and collected and I remind Blake all the time how lucky of a man he is! This week has been unbelievable movement... I can 100% call it CONSTANT ... While I am sleeping, driving, standing or talking to a physician... It's amazing. I'm not even 30 weeks and you feel so strong. Once a day, at least, you take my breath away moving. For a long time, I've been trying to put into words what having a baby inside you feels like and I've had real trouble articulating it until now. This morning you felt like a small gold fish flipping around. Yesterday, it felt like you were just sitting inside me "thumping me" non stop. I layered figured out with Blake's help that those were your hiccups. And right now at 8 AM as I am sitting in my car, it literally feels like popcorn popping. I would love to have a sonogram machine on you this very second just to have an idea of what you are doing inside me to make this amazing feeling!

The view of the feet at 29 weeks!

Week 30: 12.23.12- Christmas week.
This week was Christmas and I couldn't help but constantly think about what next Christmas will look like with you starting to crawl around everywhere. As I laid on the couch late Christmas morning, I could see you crawling all over the toys and paper and laughed thinking how much more careful we will have be with Carter and Addie's little parts to their toys.
A cute story to remember from this week... Even though I haven't had as bad of back pain this time compared to last time, it feels so good to turn on the heating pad and lay on it for a little while each night. Well, the last two nights, I have found Addie curled up in my spot while watching a movie, before bed. I tell her to scoot over so I can crawl in bed next to her and I find she has already turned my heating pad on, laughing and says, "Mom.... I love it, it's so cozy!"

Week 31: 12.30.12
Time is flying and you are flipping around like crazy... I'm just taking it all in loving it. You definitely like to remind me constantly that you are there. This week, we embarked on our very last vacation as a family of four.

While in Breckenridge, I was constantly picturing our next vacation or travel as a family of five. I am anticipating craziness and your dad agreed that beautiful lake trips and trips to Port A will be our main vacation itineraries for a couple of years and we are so excited by that. When the four of us are eating dinner at home or out at a restaurant, I always ask the kids, "Where do you think the baby sit?" We were in a booth recently and Addie said, "I want baby to sit in between Carter and I."

While in Breckenridge, Megan snapped some pictures of me at 31 weeks pregnant.