It's been a rough week. The exhaustion is getting worse, and I know it'll only continue to do so as I get farther into pregnancy. Even taking a nap with Katie during the day just isn't cutting it. I don't sleep well at night either, and the baby keeps me up late because he's crazy energetic after midnight. He's strong enough where even if I'm sleeping and he starts rolling and kicking, I can't sleep through it. So...exhaustion is pretty much the best way to describe every day of this week.
I'm also having a hard time breathing. I feel asthmatic. Yesterday I rushed up the stairs and then couldn't breathe for five minutes. I understood why and just mentally told myself how stupid that was while gasping for breath. But there are times when I'm just sitting down and I'm not able to breathe. Baby is already at the stage where he's taking up so much room that my lungs are being pushed up and crushed. I don't remember getting like this with Katie until much later in third tri, but it's definitely happening now. For the last week, breathing even while not doing anything can be rough.
There's so much pressure on my lower body right now as well. My tailbone and pelvis feels like they're cracking. I'm waddling now, I'm sure. My belly is sore from all the weight it's holding. Again, this seems so early compared to last time. Third tri with Katie was really rough, I can't imagine how this time is going to be.
But there's good things too. There's less fear having a viable baby now. His movements are so pronounced that I can start to tell what body parts are where. On Sunday, this baby curled up on the surface in a little comma shape at the bottom of my uterus. I could actually feel a lot of his body just cuddled up. It was adorable, and made me yearn for the time when he'll be here and I'll be able to cuddle him in my arms.
This was the best picture I could get of him, it's hard to see but it's something he's only done a few times before:
Katie used to do the craziest of positions in the womb. Like multiple other things, this baby seems like he's going to start a bit earlier.
I also had a lot of fun buying his Christmas stuff. I decided that since he doesn't have a birthday in the middle of the year like Katie does, I'm going to still buy him Christmas presents so he has toys for his first year. Not to mention, it would feel so wrong to me to have another baby and not have his name on some gifts under the tree!
Here's his Christmas this year: (and I hit two big sales, so everything was half off!)
This is really big, it's a taggie play mat. The baby sits on the belly:
And Katie insisted that the baby needed the matching on the go toy as well:
I just have one more thing I need to get him:
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