I have to admit that I am officially tired of being pregnant. This pregnancy was pretty easy up to a few weeks ago when my pelvis started to really hurt. I was tired and got tired quickly and I had sciatic nerve problems but the Chiro helped with that…

If it wasn’t for this Pelvis pain I would be OK… still tired maybe but not as much as now… The worst times for me is when I am laying down, so the bed actually looks like my enemy… I can’t sleep because I hurt too much, I can’t twist and turn because the pain is excruciating… So I stay in the same position all night and just doze lightly… when I need to finally move I have to go really slowly onto my back… I can’t roll because my pelvis is locked into place so I have to lift myself up a bit to turn and then once I am on back I have to release all of my muscles and wait until I hear a big pop in my pelvis and then I can finish turning or get up… of course the first minutes up are so hard also…

My mom is going to be giving me her old couch soon and a big arm chair… it was supposed to be here this weekend but it didn’t happen… but if I am still pregnant when we get it I think I will be sleeping in that for the rest of the time…

Also, since Thursday or Friday the baby is in weird positions nd I haven’t had as many contrax… it doesn’t move much but when it does it changes position… sometimes it’s back is on the left, sometimes on the right, sometimes even posterior for a while and often it is oblique and resting its head on either side of my hip… I thought it had started to engage for a while but it doesn’t seem to have happened now and it is just turning and turning and I don’t think that I will go into labour soon, but really… I just don’t know…

Really.. I am just tired of being pregnant, I can’t wait to hold the new babe in my arms… I can’t wait for Simon to be home with us so that we can all take the time to relax and recuperate. I hope so much that this pain will stop after the babe is born… I need to be able to lay down again and relax my body instead of being in pain…

I know perfectly well that the babe will come when the babe is ready and there is no way that I would risk rushing it… but the last weeks are hard…

Every few days I have to check and see about how many weeks I am… This pregnancy I seem to be really in touch with myself and how I feel etc… but the technical stuff seems to evade me…

I don’t really have a due date in mind, and I don’t want to… I just tell everyone that the baby will be here between mid November and the beginning of December… But everyone seems to want a date…so I just give them one that is in the middle somewhere…

Not having a date gives me comfort; however, knowing how many weeks I am gives me an idea of how many weeks I have left to get things done…

I still have tons to do… though I keep thinking that I have more time and keep on procrastinating what I have to get done and then when I check again to see how many weeks I am at then my mind starts racing again…

• - we have to find two bureaus for the boys clothes (or one big one)… the dresser that ds#1 is using is broken and doesn’t have enough space so I can’t even pass it on to Colin… and the one that Colin is using is for the new babe (it has passed down and used for 3 generations)
• - we also have to rearrange their room so that it all fits since the babe will be sharing a room with his/her big brothers. (Well technically the babe will be in our room)
• - I have to make Xavier’s Halloween costume,
• - get the babies clothes out and pick out the warmer clothes,
• - get clothes out for Colin from Xavier’s old clothes.
• - Wash the new babe’s diapers and find the covers that are somewhere in the house on various cabbage patches and other dolls…
• - Prepare and Freeze more food so that I will be able to have somewhat of a babymoon without having to cook a lot.

  - Finish buying birthing supplies and figure out if I want to buy a water birth pool.

There must be other things that I have to get done too…

Anyways… I am getting more and more excited about the birth. Even though I have had rough and long labors, I LOVE giving birth! I am looking forward to laboring in my own home, not having anyone there but Simon and the kids. I feel ready to have my UC and I feel confidant that it will happen.

I am also looking forward to having a babymoon after the baby is born. Staying in bed and getting to know the new babe. Simon will be on Parental leave so I really feel like I will have the time to get to know the new life that will come into our home and the boys will also be taken care of. And then later on I will be able to give attention to the boys also and Simon will be able to get to know the new little one…

Ugh… the last few days I have been so thirsty… I drink and drink and drink and I can’t seem to quench my thirst… I am getting sick of water but then I can’t have enough, I don’t drink much else on a regular basis but I need to find an easy way to get so much water down…

I have also been craving sweets like crazy… Going to Zellers the day after easter when everything chocolate is 50% off is not a good thing when you are hungry and craving sweets!

Another complaint is that though I haven’t had many symptoms I am starting to have a few that usually come a bit later for me… Heartburn is one, scatia is another and then of course… Round Ligament pain… these are three things that I hate… these are three things that I could definately live without…

I mean am I already stuck at kealing over each time I sneeze and then have a sharp pain travel down my leg!

Ugh… I love being pregnant but there are some things about it that I would gladly live without!

I have really really been tired these last few days… I would just love to curl up under the covers and stay there all day… it is not really a lack of sleep, sleepy tired, I could easily lay down and not be able to fall asleep….it is a physical drained tired, I just have no energy… I just don’t want to do anything… Then of course when it comes time to actually go to bed, I don’t feel like it and am not sleepy…
So… the boys have been watching too much TV, and I have been really lazy….

Also, I have not been too nauseous except for when I have to think of making food… then it hits me… I don’t know…Maybe it is just the thought of having to get up and really do something that makes me nauseous… but I can’t make it go away…