Silver Lining

I have gotten to the uncomfortable point! I guess I should be grateful, since we are only 5 weeks from our due date and it has been a very good pregnancy so far... but for the last few day's the uncomfortable pregnancy I've heard so much about has set in!

I do pretty good during the day, it's night time and sleepy time that is getting difficult! It is getting harder and harder to find a comfy position... lots of pillows and Scott rubbing my feet is about the only way I can fall asleep! Then within 2 hours I'm back awake because Kaleb is headbutting my bladder... and it starts all over! Right now it is annoying, but not the end of the world since I'm not working, but I hope I manage to figure something out before I go back to work!

Last night I woke up about 2:30 with my stomach itching me to death! It's maddening! First I tried lotion... to no avail. Then I tried Benadryl cream... that didn't work either. Then I tried a hairbrush (not so much to relieve the itching but to relieve my poor warn down fingernails from being overworked). Eventually I decided that if I numbed my stomach then I couldn't feel the itch... so I went for a zip-lock of ice wrapped in a towel... and I fell asleep! Two hours later I woke up frozen and soaking wet! You'd think I would have learned my lesson from the last time I fell asleep with a bag of ice and woke up frozen and soaking wet... but let me remind you... the itching was maddening!

Hey... change PJ's, find a dry blanket... and if you hurry you can fall back asleep before the numbness wears off and you start itching all over again! There is always a silver lining!

Now for an actual update... Scott and I went to the doctor yesterday to learn that in the last 2 weeks I've gained 3 lbs. Guess I better make an attempt to slow down since I'm only supposed to gain 1 lb per week... oh well. We are down to the short rows now! Go back to the Dr. next Friday... every week now! Monday will be 35 weeks... and at 37 weeks they consider you full term. Guess that means if all goes well we will have a baby here sometime between 2 and 5 weeks from now! AH