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Thursday, September 8, 2011

34 weeks - aka the week of exhaustion

Total weight gain/loss: +55ish
Stretch marks? Not on my stomach, I have some small new ones on my hips.
Sleep: OMG, I'll elaborate below
Best moment this week: Sleeping for 4 hours straight
Movement: Yes
Food cravings: None at the moment, I've had a return of queasiness the past few days
Labor Signs: No
Belly Button in or out? In, but getting pretty flat
What I miss: lots of things
What I am looking forward to: going to bed tonight....is there a theme here?
Milestones: 34 weeks! Holy effing hell!

So here we are at 34 weeks. Seems like it took no time and forever to get here. I've been feeling...you guessed it, EXHAUSTED. Its amazing how lack of sleep is really making me feel really blah. Let me elaborate: Getting up to pee 2 times, picking Leo up on the bed after he drinks water/pees/etc., shooing Gabriella back into bed after waking up at 5.30. Some nights I'm being woken up every hour, other nights I can get a decent stretch of time in. In any case, I'm so so so worn out. If I could just get 6 hours of sleep straight I'd feel much better.

Where is Chris you ask? On the couch, for the rest of my pregnancy.

I have my 34 week appt tomorrow. Doc will either start having me coming every week or tell me to come back at 36 weeks at which point we'll do every week. Either way, I'm in the home stretch. What's weird is that very soon I'll be hoping that my cervix is making progress versus hoping that things are nice and sealed up all there, as I have been this whole pregnancy.

All in all, I can say that I'm ready to not be pregnant anymore. I'm not ready logistically for Emilia to be here yet, there is still work to be done. But yeah, I'm definitely over being pregnant at this point. I would love more than anything for Emilia to be born full term, of course, but man, I already know I will be a bitter bitch if she doesn't come as early as Gabriella did. I can't help but have that in my mind.

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