Symptom-wise, I actually feel like I've been sleeping a little bit better in my third trimester than I did in my second which is strange. Maybe the ligaments have stretched and loosened enough that I'm not quite as sore?? The last couple nights this seems to have been a problem again and I've slept sitting up with LOTS of pillows, but generally it's been better. I feel like I've been starving lately too, and I'm finding that I'm feeling a little sick-y if I'm not keeping up on eating regularly.
We had a funny experience this last week. Dan and Darci had their little girl so we were going to the hospital to visit. I told Adie that we were going to get to go to the hospital to see a brand new baby and she goes, "Baby Brenden is at the hospital for us?!" If only it were that easy! Then we got to the hospital and I'm not sure why but it hadn't even dawned on Mark and I that "wow - we're going to be coming here in just a few weeks!" Didn't even think of it. Well we were heading out for a date that night so were a little dressed up and had Adie with us, real calm, etc. We got to the desk and the lady just looked at us and goes, "you didn't call first??" And Mark and I just looked at each other and back at her to see her pointing at my stomach. We all started laughing after we explained we weren't there for us, we were there to visit. Gosh - I hope I'm looking that good and am that calm when we show up at the hospital!
He is moving a ton. Not so much a ton throughout the day, it's just that when he starts moving, he really starts moving! One night there was such a rhythm to his movements that it was so bazarre. It was extremely low and like a tapping (which we later thought was probably hiccups??) But I told Mark- "He's knocking! He found the door out and is ready to be done!!" There were a few nights last week that Mark and I were laying in bed and I was literally jolting while laying there because the kicks were so intense and a little bit painful. We've been trying to figure out his position based on kick patterns, but it's hard to tell. Two appointments ago, she was thrown for a loop a little bit because she initially thought he was still head up, but then hearing his heartbeat, it was stronger down low so she then thought maybe he was already head down. Well this last appointment, the same thing happened. Luckily we still have 6 weeks to have him get in the right position, so we'll just hope he does it all on his own, or that maybe he's already flipped.
At our next appointment we will have our 36 week ultrasound done. This will let us know for sure how he's positioned, which is good, but we're both having some mixed feelings about doing it. We both really want to see our little guy because frankly, we got the anatomy scan done so early that he was a little skeleton-ey looking and the pictures haven't come out of the envelope since the appointment. But, on the flip side, it was a very hard appointment to go through and we feel like we've come to a place of peace with what they had found and peace that everything is ok. Having that now, we're just afraid that we're so fragile that if anything should come up on this next scan, it would be incredibly hard to take. In the meantime, we continue to pray for a healthy, happy little boy with no defects, abnormalities or complications and trust that God has His best in store for us.
