Third Trimester Reeeecap

You can see my first and second trimester reeeecaps by clicking those links!

I looked like this two days before finding out I was pregnant: (So fun, so AWAKE, so normal-sized, haha! And would you look at that clean house!?!)

I started out the third trimester looking a little exactly like this: (this was baby shower day - I had a fresh haircut, painted nails, and was feeling good! I could also still wear my wedding ring!)

And ended up looking a little something like this: 
(at our worksgiving dinner/surprise work shower - this probably around my biggest time - from here I think the baby just moved lower and I didn't look quite as big. I look back at this and think WHOA... no wonder people told me I was big all the time. haha - I WAS big! =))

This:
(39 weeks - fixing my hair in case it was THE day, wearing yoga pants exclusively like I had been for quite a while, also wearing a shirt that did NOT cover my mammoth belly.)

And finally this:
(40 weeks exactly - 3:30 a.m. with dirty hair, another shirt that didn't cover the belly, flip flops because I couldn't get anything else on, and... a leaky water. Puffy McPufferson.)

I felt:

• Excited and anxious to be in the home stretch, and later, so incredibly pumped and grateful to have made it full term!
• Tired.
• Sore. It hurt to bend, sit, stand, lay, breathe practically...
• Contractions galore.
• Soreness in in my back/hip that later turned into sometimes unbearable pain.
• Serious pelvic pain from my big-headed baby pushing down.
• Allergy and sinus pain.
• Swollen.
• Embarrassed by my two trips to L&D before it was truly time.
• Swollen. Oy.
• Huge.
• Itchy, stretch-marked skin.
• Total brain fog.
• Cramps and pressure.
• Tiny lungs.
• Very pregnant. =)
• Nausea.
• So so SO happy and excited and blessed. 

Cravings:

• ICE CREAM
• Toast and muffins
• Cereal
• Water
• Chocolate Milk

Highlights:

• Baby shower
• More frequent appt's
• Celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary
• Finishing some house projects
• Childbirth class
• Surviving a wedding
• Nursery bedding completed
• Maternity pictures
• Finally deciding on names
• 10-year high school reunion
• Lots of Netflix-watchin'
• Taking off a week before Reid came to town. =)

So, surprises: I was surprised by just how uncomfortable I was. I was physically miserable but I'm impressed with myself that I continued to work and plug away until the last week. That I was one of those girls that went to L&D before it was time. I expected to be way more cool, calm, and collected than that! ha! That Reid actually came on his due date. 

Even with it's "downs" - pregnancy was enjoyable. I'm not sure it'd be as enjoyable a second time, because there's something to be said for new, exciting, and just pure gratefulness that it happened. When I think back to it now, I think "how did you survive that?!". I say, well, it wasn't that bad until the very end. Then Dac reminds me of the fact that I couldn't leave the couch for weeks at the beginning... haha. Oh - and the never-ending pain and nausea that lasted in some form or another the entire nine months. Regardless - I am so incredibly thankful for the opportunity and the experience. It was truly a great one and a healthy one. Plus, I got the best reward at the end. =) 

Thank you all for joining me and supporting us on this journey!