Is that a baby in your tummy or are you just glad to see me??
So, by the way - - - I AM PREGNANT.
I, uh, somehow let it slip my mind as I was prepping the house, sneaking out for all you can eat Olive Garden pasta bowl and a kicken french pedicure. As always, Mr. Ryan made his presence known in what I thought was some minor discomfort which was diagnosed on Monday as more pre-term contractions, and not the teaser braxton hicks kind. Needless to say, I am now on an every 4 hour nefedrine prescription …
We are at 30 weeks, 3 days. - which means at minimum another 5 more weeks to go or another 10 weeks for “full” full term.
It’s been a hard adjustment in my head that I am now on “real” bedrest again… After all this time, now is definitely not the time to jepordize the health of the kid. Ahhhhhghg. But Nay gave me good perspective on the situation as she was like you know you don’t have to be in pain all this time. You can pray for healing and claim it. I hadn’t thought of it that way. I just figured I had to suffer through the aches and pains and itchiness of these next couple of weeks. But hey if you think of it, put in a prayer for me that the next few weeks will fly by and that my sanity and Ryan’s healthy development continue…..
I haven’t blogged about my persistent dreams about working out. Like miles and miles of running, and weight lifting and getting on a elliptical machine. Ai ya. Seriously, I have these fabulous dreams at night where I am working out like a fiend and loving every minute of it. It’s all about the control and structure and routine of my life when I was working out regularly. And now I am wondering how all of that will fit into our new lives once baby makes his way into the world…
It’s really finally dawning on me that we will be having a baby sometime in the near future. Uh, how wow is that?? I can’t quite grasp the concept. That at the end of the remodeling, the endless hours in bed, the many trips to the garbage dumps for Bob, a million and a half doctor appts., that we will be bringing home a lil bambino to call our own.
How are you ever prepared for this?
Hey a big shout out to Nay by the way for her great assistance in dumping half a ton of my junk at St. Vincent de Pauls, after sifting thru the clutter that is my garage. Couldn’t have done it without you!! In case you haven’t seen it, here’s a link to Nay’s wedding website. We had a ball putting it together. Her wedding is only 3 weeks away. I can’t believe how much time has gone by. Ch-ch-ch-changes ….
We laugh all the time about how much both of our lives are changing right now and what a cool blessing it is that we are both off at the same time to support each other through the baby and bedrest and the wedding and her work stuff. It’s another way that God hooks it up. Actually all my friends have been fabulous through this time for me - so hey THANKS!!
I’m off to roll around the bed for a few more hours. Bedrest, the sleepy frontier.