Things are going really well with my pregnancy overall. I can certainly tell though that I have entered into my third trimester. I have started getting many new pregnancy symptoms.
I'm hot all the time and I live in Seattle where the temps are in the 60's and 70's. I honestly don't know how women do it in other parts of the country. It will be 60 degrees and I will get a hot flash. Today it was only 75 degrees and I am in a tank top, drinking an iced coffee, and sweating my butt off. I keep thinking "What would I do if it was 100 degrees??!" People were asking a month or two ago if I was hot yet, and were surprised that I told them no. A few weeks ago, I just woke up one day and I was HOT. Now feeling hot and sweaty is a daily occurrence.
Along with the sweating has coming another symptom, swelling. So far it is mostly just my fingers but it got bad enough that I finally had to remove my wedding rings and buy a $20 sterling silver ring at Target to wear in its place. I'm by no means old fashion, but I wanted to still look like a married pregnant lady. My cheap-o replacement does the trick. :-)
A good night's sleep seems to have become a thing of the past. I have terrible insomnia every night and am almost always up until at least 2am. I am also sleeping on the couch every night at this point. I can't get comfortable in bed and since I am having trouble sleeping, I find it much easier to lie on the couch watching TV until I fall asleep. I record episode after episode of Law & Order during the day and I joke that if my pregnancy had a soundtrack, it would be the opening theme to that show. I watch it every night and when I have really bad insomnia, I have watched up to 3 episodes in a row. Thank god for my TIVO!
My belly is now big enough that it gets in the way. I usually sit on the couch and type on my laptop while it's sitting on the coffee table. This requires me to lean forward, and my belly is big enough that I can't do this anymore. I also can't eat dinner leaning over the coffee table like I always do. For a few days this week I just took my plate, leaned back, and rested it on my belly. Last night I finally gave in and hauled out one of the much taller TV trays that we received as a wedding gift. Who would think that the simplest things like reaching my lap top or my plate now require so much work! haha!
I don't feel like I am that big yet, but I'm starting to have a hard time doing things I used to take for granted. Getting up and down from the floor is now a lot more work. I was cleaning out a cabinet the other night. Not only did I have a hard time leaning forward to clean out the back of it because my belly was in the way, I was sweating by the end after getting up and down off the floor a few times. I actually almost started to cry. I felt so ridiculous that something as small as cleaning out a cabinet and getting up off the floor was leaving my exhausted. I don't feel that much bigger but I notice that my body has changed and doing almost everything is just different. I knew this would happen but it's still a little hard to cope with. I understand that I can't run a mile, but having a hard time even getting up and down from the floor is a little embarrassing.
I remember all of that! I was heavily pregnant in the spring, so it wasn't too hot yet, but I was always roasting! The swelling sucks. I had to take my rings off the end of April and I had my son June 3rd. I was able to put them back on 3 weeks after giving birth, hopefully you will be able to do the same! I didn't get a replacement ring and I always worried that people thought I was an unwed mother. Nothing wrong with that, but I am married!
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