30 Weeks

30 Weeks

Our little family has 10 weeks, or less I am hoping, to go before we add a little boy to our family.  I am officially 30 weeks along, and I am more than ready to be done with the whole pregnancy feeling.  I'm not blessed to feel fabulous during pregnancy; however, I at least am blessed to be able to get pregnant (much too easy) and to have healthy pregnancies.  I guess I can't have it all.  

I am now feeling large with child; unfortunately I am just going to get bigger.  I think I am feeling huge b/c things are getting more difficult to do; it is difficult to bend over, to sit certain ways, and Erik now goes up the stairs much quicker than I do.  Luckily, I am able to still workout regularly.  I am trying to prevent losing too much muscle this time around, and it helps my sciatica if I workout.

Now, I really hate pregnancy pictures; I am sure you can tell from the picture and the look on my face how awkward I feel in these pictures.  I really wouldn't take them, but I took them with Olivia and I don't want baby boy (no we don't have a name yet so feel free to make suggestions) to feel deprived.  I was actually going to take this picture with my church clothes on when I looked cuter, but I forgot.  After changing into soft pants and reading all afternoon I decided a sweatpants picture would have to do.

This pregnancy with baby boy has been a lot different than it was with Olivia.  I know they always say pregnancies are different, but I was just hoping it would be similar b/c then I would know what to expect.  I am assuming the differences between pregnancies is just prepping us for how different baby boy will be from OJ.  Baby boy has made me much more sick and sick for a longer period of time.  I still do not feel fabulous.  With baby boy there have been foods I'm more sensitive too; luckily, this is starting to not be as bad anymore.  Also, as gross as this may be, I am much more gassy with this boy than I ever was with Olivia.  I'm thinking it is b/c boys are just gassier people in general. :)  This little boy is also much more active.  The other night he woke me up at 2am with his powerful flutter kicks (kicking back and forth like the flutter swim kick).  He had some serious flutter kicking going on inside of me.  Baby boy would flutter kick for five minutes straight; I'm not sure if he had a lot of energy or if he was practicing his soccer/swim moves, but it actually hurt a bit and kept me up for a good little while.  Baby boy would flutter kick for five minutes and then stop, but don't think that was the end of his flutter kicking.  He actually would flutter kick, take a break for a minute or so, and then flutter kick again for approximately five more minutes.  I'm guessing the flutter kicking was exhausting for him,and he needed to take breaks.  Baby boy kept this flutter kick and break pattern going for a little over a half an hour, and this was all at 2am.  I didn't mind the kicking as much, but I was not the biggest fan of the time he chose to have fun with his flutter kick.  Baby boy has definitely treated me a lot different with this pregnancy so far, but I wouldn't mind if he eased up a bit in these last ten weeks.  

Now, just a little pregnancy story.  I've been subbing quite a bit lately.  It's fun to be in the library again and to teach kids, but I would have to say it isn't as fun as being with Olivia and teaching her.  I'm grateful to have the opportunity to sub though.  A couple of Fridays ago I was subbing in an elementary school.  I had been teaching lessons all day, and I had a sixth grade class near the end of the day.  There were a lot of fun stories from the kids throughout the day, but the sixth grade kids left me with the most memorable story.  After my lesson with the sixth graders the class began checking out books; at this time I got to interact with the students more on a one-on-one basis.  I learned, or at least was reminded of, how different sixth grade boys and girls are.  The sixth grade boys would just ask me straight up if I was pregnant; they had no social qualms with doing so.  However, the sixth grade girls were so nervous to ask me.  I had a couple of girls come up to me in a small group.  Each of the girls wanted the other girls to ask me if I was pregnant.  They were curious and wanted to know, but none of the girls wanted to offend me.  I just love how boys will ask straight up and not care if they would offend me, but the girls have a few more social skills and were afraid of being wrong.  Oh, how different boys and girls are no matter what the age.  

It's always fun subbing in the schools b/c I've come to realize that all kids get excited if you are pregnant whether they are first graders or high schoolers.  The older the student the more details they want to know like when the baby will come and what we are naming the baby.  The boy and girl sixth graders were all about giving me name suggestions. The girls gave me names I should name baby boy, but the boys were all about telling me names that I should not name baby boy.  It was very informative.  All in all, kids are great; I love being a school librarian!