Tomorrow I will be 39 weeks pregnant, and although there are no signs of impending labor and delivery, I wanted to be sure to get in one more post on this pregnancy. I was a bit surprised at how much I had already forgotten about my last pregnancy that I would like to try to document as much as possible this time around.
In general, I know I have felt more aches/pains and general discomfort this time around. I'm not sure if that is because it's the second time, or because I have much more to do this time around since I'm home caring for a toddler rather than sitting at a desk 40 hrs a week.
The pregnancy started off with a fair amount of nausea mostly in the morning or around supper time (worse during the later times). That went away around 13 or 14 weeks. I think the exhaustion of the first trimester was about the same as my first pregnancy except it wasn't as easy to find time to rest. I would even find myself falling asleep when reading my daughter her bedtime stories! I definitely felt like I was showing sooner and even my midwife commented that I had "popped" quite early on. Although, looking back now I'm pretty sure no one that didn't know me already could tell during the first trimester. I did wear a maternity dress at a wedding when I was about 11 weeks and I definitely noticed some people that knew me looking at my stomach. But then, when we did our Christmas pictures and I was somewhere around 18 weeks, I had mentioned that I was pregnant and the photographer said she didn't even notice! At times I have had pretty bad heartburn and indigestion although thankfully that was just from about 25-30 weeks (ish). In books I have read about heart "palpations" and I did notice that a few times right in middle of my pregnancy. I didn't have any symptoms other than I could feel my heart beat and it felt slightly irregular. I wondered if I was imagining it until later I read about it. In the third trimester I definitely got more tired again (although I think a bit of it stayed the whole pregnancy). Now in the mornings sometimes I feel out of breath and my body almost feels heavy like it isn't getting enough oxygen, it's weird and only happens for a minute or two in the morning, I have no idea why. I have had the Charlie horsing in my calf but it wasn't as bad this time. In the mornings it would wake me up and I could stretch it out before it got really bad. That lasted for about a month I would say. Now that I'm at the end I have been having some groin pain and back pain that has been quite uncomfortable. It is usually worse in the morning too but the back pain is sometimes worse at night. My feet have also been pretty achy if I am on them a lot during the day, which indefinitely remember from last time.
Although I do remember being quite emotional during my last pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, I think I have had more anxiety this time around. I think part of that is I'm just more anxious now as a parent than I was before, having a child will do that to you ha. So now that I'm at the end I'm really anxious about how everything will go. I think I'm even more scared of labor this time around even though my labor with Kylie was quite manageable. I'm nervous about my husband always being like a two hour drive away when he is at work, and also that my parents and our family is at least a two hour drive away as well. I don't anticipate a very quick labor but I can't help but worry a bit. I am very apprehensive about having to leave Kylie overnight and how she will do away from me for so long since we don't get to practice that much with our family being so far away. I'm really hoping we won't have a prolonged stay at the hospital and that baby will be perfectly healthy. Now that I have gone further than I had with Kylie I'm nervous I'm going to end up being induced. Even though I already suspected they had Kylie's due date a bit wrong and really she wasn't "early" and my charting to get pregnant had the due date at May 8th (then also confirmed by the first ultrasound), I'm still irrationally worried.
