Week 29

One last week to go until I'm in my 30's! (Pregnancy wise, not age wise!) I swear it feels like I just turned 20 weeks like a week or two, where has this time gone? I think so far this has been my easiest pregnancy (I can say that now, before any of my test results come in and before the worst part of pregnancy begins), so I guess that combined with running after a toddler all day makes it go super quickly.

I woke up this morning and immediately did yoga as my body was killing me (yet another night sleeping straight up, but Katie did much better this time!) Wow, I always thought yoga was gentle stretching - not so! Today's yoga was full of deep squatting, large amounts of twisting, and then doing certain continous movement until it starts to kill you, at which point you try to work through because you're supposed to imagine that they're contractions. It's mental preparation and strength...but I didn't do so well under it! I continued to do it, but I was making a lot of groaning noises and hated every part of it. However, I now feel really good. Everything but my neck feels like it's been loosened up. I can't wait to do this after my chiropractor visit.

I'm starting to get panicked about everything now. Not about pregnancy, but about anything on the news, anything stressful, etc. Now it just seizes me up and takes my breath away. I feel more hormonal, so that's probably what's adding to it, but trying to shield myself from any stressful topic is difficult. Even the smaller things make me go nuts.

My weight is constantly fluctuating still. It's been like that for a month now. Most of pregnancy, I was steady. I was always either at the same weight, or I'd go up a lb and stay there until I went up again. There was no constant up and down. I'm not even sure what my true weight is because it's always changing now. Before I was fluctuating between 134-137. Now I'm fluctuating between 137-140. I hate when I see 140, it feels like I'm really getting heavy now, that's 26 lbs above my starting weight and I'm only 29 weeks! I know they say I should gain a lb a week, and I've been following that pretty much perfectly, but I don't think they meant for the entire pregnancy and at 26 lbs, that's pretty close to what's going on. If I knew I could keep up with that, I'd be fine. That would mean I'd only gain 11 more lbs, which would be 37 in total. I'm fine with gaining 37 lbs! The problem is the second half of third tri, where I stop gaining only one lb a week and gain several from combination of increased appetite and less energy and exercise because I'm so big at that point. Staying below or at 50 by the end of the pregnancy is my goal.

Also, I'm FINALLY not an eggplant on my ticker anymore! I've been an eggplant for at least four weeks, I didn't think I'd ever get a new one. Now I'm a squash...even though it looks more like a pumpkin! Which reminds me that I can't wait to do pumpkins this year! I think Katie will have a lot of fun with it this year, and we get to do a baby one too!