Home stretch!

I'm in the third trimester now. 7 months pregnant this week. You'll get a belly picture eventually. Remember the theme of this blog? No pictures for you. ;)

James and I have both been busier than I ever thought possible. He leaves for a 3 week tour in 4 days, so has been rushing around preparing for that, gigging, teaching and helping my dad paint the first room in our flat. As you know, I had a 17 page paper and an exam in Microbiology last week, plus work and a whole situation with a turtle we're trying to rescue. Long, long story - basically, we found a turtle in our yard but no one wants it and none of the shelters will take it. He has been out of his natural habitat for over a month (he is an aquatic turtle). I have spent hours and hours trying to find someone who will take him in. I don't even like turtles, so I must really be nuts to spend so much time helping him. I just don't want an animal to die in our yard.

Anyway, on top of all this I am really starting to feel pregnant now. Still loving every minute of being pregnant and probably having it easier than most, but I can tell I am now in the third trimester. The first trimester was somewhat rough. The second trimester was easy for the most part. Now, just as I've heard, things are getting a little more challenging. This week, Dorian has been up to his old tricks of using my bladder as a mattress. I have peed no less than 10 times a night all week. Plus I wake up at EVERY little noise and then it can take me an hour to fall back asleep. I am exhausted. I started having intense back and hip pain this week and my femurs (thigh bones) ache when I lie on them for more than an hour. Since I can't sleep on my back or stomach (not good for baby or blood flow to placenta), I have no choice but to lie on them. Needless to say, I have not felt 100% this week. Friday morning was so bad, I woke up and was convinced I was back in the first trimester...I was soooooo nauseated. I am sure this was from exhaustion. I had to call in sick to work - I was so bummed because it was the first sick day I have had in over a year and I was determined to make it through this pregnancy without any!

Now before all you start lecturing me - "Oh, you think you're tired now!" "Just you wait until the baby is born." "This is nothing!" - I don't want to hear it. This is my blog and I can complain if I want to. There's a huge difference between being 7 months pregnant, churning out 17 page Microbiology papers, commuting to HMB and working 10 hour days and caring for a baby where I can stay in bed all day with the baby and hopefully be able to sleep when the baby is sleeping. It's going to be easy caring for a newborn, right? Piece of cake! ;)

I better sign off for now and get on to my to-do list. You have no idea how much we have to do before this baby is born. We have a to-do list the length of Homer's The Odyssey. Finish summer school, start and complete nursing applications, baby classes, CPR classes (for nursing school), work in HMB, continue my 1-1.5 hour daily power walks (I am convinced this is helping me stay sane and have a healthy pregnancy), various doctor appointments for me (I start seeing the doctor every 2 weeks instead of every month now), sort out pediatrician, health insurance, passport and more for Dorian, buy the rest of the baby stuff we need, go through all our junk, organize the house, hypnotherapy for hypnobirthing, read 3 books and do daily exercises assigned to me by hypnotherapist, move from room to room in our house as each room gets painted....our house is a complete mess because of the renovations and painting. It will probably be like this until early October. I know it will be worth it in the end, but right now, I have to keep reminding myself that it's good to be busy!!! Sometimes I wish I had a personal assistant to help me out with all my tasks. I'd love to be one of those pregnant women who could sit in a garden with ice tea and a book for 9 months...then again, do they even exist anymore?