34 Weeks

I have an doctor's appointment tomorrow morning and I know she's going to ask me about exercise.  Yeah, not happening right now.  In addition to feeling like I have a 10-15 pound (maybe 20...) bowling ball hanging off the front of me, and related pelvic soreness, I'm valuing the sleep I get a lot more than the idea of getting up early and going to the gym (because now there's snow and ice on the ground so walking outside isn't going to work).  My sleep pattern for the last few weeks has been: go to sleep around 10 or 11, wake up sometime between 3-5, stay awake for 1-2 hours, go back to sleep for a little bit, drag myself out of bed between 7:30-8 and barely get to work between 9-9:15.  I've been staying a little later at work to get things done, so by the time I get home, I don't really want to go to the gym.  I've always been a morning gym person because something always comes up in the evenings.  Now what's coming up after work, in addition to work meetings and events or just seeing friends, is I'm hungry and tired.  Honestly, I feel like a rock star for completing a full day of work.  And this past weekend, I had to work some on both Saturday and Sunday to meet a Monday morning deadline.  Even though I wound up having a snow day on both Friday and Monday, I spent both of those days on my laptop working.  It's a busy time right now and while I can, I'm working hard.


The point is, the gym, walks, etc.  Not happening. 


Now for the good news.  I've been seeing the pre-natal chiropractor regularly and I think it's really helping.  The one thing I definitely know that's helping is the piece of kinesio tape she puts on my lower back at the end of every session.  It's helping to support my lower back and has actually cut down on the pelvic pain in front.  Yay for that.


I had a baby shower on Saturday and Jason and our friend Jessica had our pub trivia quizmaster* come and do baby-related trivia.  He brought his speaker set up and DJ'd songs with "baby" in them all through the shower too.  The trivia angle was a huge surprise and I was thrilled!  Even without the trivia, a few friends made so much delicious food and we probably had 20 people from all different aspects of our lives here in New England and it was a great time.  I had so much fun and felt loved and I love Jason for taking the initiative to make sure it happened. 






* We've really gotten into pub trivia over the last couple of years.  Our team is currently ranked 8th in our league and baby had better hold off until after the tournament on March 5.