Well, since today is actually the day after my due date, I guess now is a good time to recap my entire third trimester.
Its crazy how much changes at the end. Once I got through the sickness of my first trimester, I’ve generally felt really good throughout my pregnancy. I’ve loved being pregnant. I did have someone tell me there’s a reason we have the 9th month of pregnancy. And now I get it. This last month has been hard. I just want to meet this little boy!
Pregnancy Symptoms
Heartburn. So much heartburn. At this point it doesn’t matter what I eat, heartburn all day long. And it gets worse at night when I’m trying to sleep. Which leads to the next symptom – lack of sleep. Between the heartburn, getting up to pee a few times a night, and probably just nerves, I rarely get a good night’s sleep these days. I try to just laugh it off when people tell me to sleep now before the baby gets here.
I’m also just generally uncomfortable most of the time. I’m carrying around this big, heavy belly and my uterus is pushing on all of my organs. Sometimes when I stand up I get a random pain on my left side from my lower back down my left leg. I’ve also had a few moments where my feet ankles were swollen. I bought some compression socks for work and I’ve mostly been okay. As hard as some of these things have been, I am so grateful that most of these held off til the very end.
Growth
Its funny to look back at pictures from earlier in my pregnancy when I thought my belly was SO big. Even pictures I shared from the end of my second trimester when I thought I had ‘popped’. There was one day in the middle of January, I woke up and looked in the mirror and thought my belly was gigantic out of nowhere. And it hasn’t stopped growing since.
When I first got pregnant I wanted to be cute and Pinteresty and take weekly black and white belly growth pictures. But I never really got it together and my belly took longer than expected to really grow. With the slow growth and using Burts Bees belly butter I didn’t really have any stretch marks until this last month.
The Best Parts
The absolute best part of the end of pregnancy is knowing how close we are to meeting our little baby boy. We still love feeling and watching him move around in my stomach. I can only imagine how much we’ll stare and watch when he’s actually here on the outside.
We also celebrated this little guy at my baby shower last month. It was so nice to have friends and family here who are just as excited about his (hopefully soon) arrival.
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