...I have all you wonderful women to live through!! There are so many of you getting so close to having you BB's. And hearing your stories of how big and uncomfortable you are, having only two pairs of pants to wear and 3-shirts to rotate through the next 3-weeks because you don't want to buy anything else for just 3-weeks (and because you swear they don't make any maternity wear big enough to fit you), sleeping is miserable, are you going to be a good mother, is everything ready to go, etc....
Oh girls, I so hear you. And I miss it. Yes, you heard me right. I do miss it. And I LOVE hearing about it and reading about it. It is reassuring to know that ALL women go through it. The last month, where you swear you cannot get any bigger, and you hurt all over, nothing fits, your feet/ankles are now known as kankles, you huff and puff just to walk across the parking lot, and you swear "This has to be the LONGEST month of all time!!"
And you know what, before you know it, your BB is here and all that "Longest month of all time" stuff is history and it feels like that was so long ago and you wonder if you will ever sleep again, take a shower again, find a shirt in your closet that doesn't have spit up or poop on it, is my baby growing enough, too much, is he/she developing on track, will he/she get sick, am I doing this/that right.
Oh girls...when people tell you that having a baby will change your life...pregnancy is just the beginning. It all builds upon each other and just when you think "There is no way I am strong enough emotionally to deal with all of this," God gives you another burst of coffee to keep going. And the only way to gauge how you are doing, is to look back at where you came from. Think back to the time when you decided to start trying for children, when you got pregnant, doctors appointment, etc. Each thing builds upon each other. What seems like a huge deal now, when you look back on it seems so minuscule.
Such as life though!!
So live on pregnant girls...live on!!
5 comments:
I love this post! I know that I am still very much a newbie in the whole motherhood game but I can definitely relate to all these sentiments. That last month of pregnancy was horrendous for me, esp being stuck on bedrest for over half of it, but now I look back and it feels like forever ago.
I am so excited for all our friends who are about to have their babies! I do feel like I am reliving the end of my pregnancy in a way and it's kind of fun :)
I couldn't agree more! Last night I was getting all excited feeling Jodi's baby move! Like it was my own moving all over again!! LOL It was (and still is) fun answering her questions about what is normal in pregnancy and how did I handle such and such. :o) In some ways, my pregnancy seems like it was just yesterday. In others, it seems so long ago. *sigh* :p
I haven't even had the baby yet and I know I'm going to miss being pregnant. I absolutely love it. I think it's one of the most amazing things and as much as I can't wait to see our baby I'm going to miss feeling him or her moving around in there!
What a great post! As one of those gals whose due date is tomorrow and still no baby yet, I can totally understand what you are saying and I am so excited to meet my little girl!
I'm catching up here on your blog posts. :) I usually try to avoid commenting when I'm so far behind, buuut...
What a great one. I keep thinking about how even though it's definitely not been an easy breezy time there are some things about being pregnant I'm just going to miss so much. Cankles aren't one of them. he he.
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