Holiday Hemeroids! And clock is ticking!

Merry Christmas! I have hemeroids and constipation, headaches and terrible heartburn. Being pregnant rules!

Also, I've been having Braxton Hicks contractions mulitiple times a day. I've had them since the second trimester started, but now they come with a pretty sweet surge of Oxitocin hormone. This makes me feel really light-headed and kinda drugged up for a minute. The waves of hormones give me hot flashes too. Fun times!

Sleeping is impossible because I can barely move my bulk from side to side in an effort to get comfortable. Nova still won't sleep in her room alone since we converted her bed to toddler style. And a week at my mom's house didn't help her training since she got to sleep every night in one big bed between mommy and daddy.

There is precious time left to get the house ready for our new arrival. I am 34.5 weeks in, leaving only 2 weeks til full term, and 5 weeks max til delivery time. Hopefully we will be getting a mini crib for Nova's room, but won't really need it for a while. We plan on setting up the same pretty pack-n-play that Nova used her first few weeks in our room for a few months. I hope to also get a glider chair to nurse in. But they ones I like ae so freaking expensive.

Midwife appointments are now every two weeks apart. One tomorrow and then they go to once a week. Reality is seting in (at least for me; I don't think Brett really gets it yet) that this baby will be coming into our physical lives very soon!

Week 32

This blog is about a pregnancy. Mine. The little baby inside. I'm trying to focus on her right now. But it's the holiday season! And also we are trying to sleep train Nova to use her toddler bed. And I have a cold. So no one is getting enough sleep in our house and we are all a bit out of sorts. Still, I am obsessed with this pregnancy as it will most likely be my last. And I just can't wait to meet my new daughter.
One of my oldest bestest friends in SF is Summer and she has planned for me a super chic, girlie baby shower! It will be Jan 12th at Lovie's tea a shoppe in Noe Valley. So looking forward to that because I love getting my girlfriends together. Wish my far away girls could also come but I know it is so expensive to travel these days. Thank you, Summer, for all you've done and will do for the shower! I appreciate it and love you so much!
I have made arrangements to tour and get an orientation at UCSF's maternity ward. Brett and I will go and so will Cherlyn Wagner, who will be my doula and our major support person through labor and delivery. Cherlyn is a great friend married to one of my best friends from my old college days. Their family has become our family and we are so blessed to have them so near and involved in our lives. Here is a photo Cherlyn took of Nova touching so gently her baby sister in my belly. Merry Christmas!