We are 33 weeks pregnant today. Everyone seems to tell me I am "lucky" with the way my pregnancy has gone. I've gained 27 pounds. I don't swell all too much just a normal amount from the ridiculous heat Mother Nature has blessed us with this summer. I can still fit into (almost) all of my clothes just fine. I sleep through the night. I've just now gotten heartburn real bad for no reason but I can some how seem to still ignore it. I haven't craved anything ridiculous real late at night and made Jose run to the store to get it (that one makes me sad I wish I would have it sounds like fun). If I wear black and you look at me from the front I don't look pregnant. I have clients that ask if the last time I did their hair I was pregnant (that cracks me up). I can walk a mile in 21 minutes. I can stand (not walk, stand) for 2 hours at a time. I don't understand how I'm "lucky". I'm pregnant, and before we got pregnant I researched and wanted to be as healthy as possible when the time came. I try very hard to be as healthy as possible. I could do better but what am I to do.
Next week I go in for my 34 week appointment and schedule my 36 week appointment. I will be able to legally and safely deliver at home then. He turned head down last week, and I got worried about him coming to early. Thalia (our midwife) said I have nothing to worry about until he engages. He was posterior last week and he most likely wouldn't engage until he turned anterior. Well this impatient little boy has been anterior since Sunday. I give him a week to engage. I'm glad he's not a procrastinator like me and getting down to business in there but I really hope once he engages he gives me the 6 week option not the 2 week, a minimum of 4 weeks. I'd prefer the 6 weeks if he engages within the next week because I have appointments booked clear up until 3 days before the due date. I asked Jose this morning if we could have another one. I don't even have our first and I want another.
I have never felt so comfortable and confident in my own skin before. Jose had asked me a couple months ago what I thought of about being a surrogate since I love being pregnant so much, I think I might consider it now. I didn't want to before because I was afraid I would get attached, but I think I could do it. Maybe. I got my maternity pictures back yesterday and saw what everyone else sees. Kendal Jessup did our pictures and she is fabulous. She captured exactly what I wanted to be captured. Check her out. http://kendaljessupphotography.blogspot.com/
It doesn't get much better then this.
