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Bump Update…

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Here is June’s baby bump update. If you aren’t interested, sorry. Skip this and resume reading tomorrow.

June 1st:

Of course. Our mayor declares the first ever ‘Craft Beer Month’ for San Diego and tells citizens it’s their civic duty to drink local craft beers.

He couldn’t have done this any other time over the last ten years I’ve been of legal age?!? He decided to do it THIS year?!?

June 3rd:

I miss the days when the time lapse between bathroom stops was longer than 8 minutes.

June 10th:

I read in my baby book today that pregnant women should gain very little weight at the end of their pregnancy. In fact, some women may lose weight.

My body did NOT get that memo.

June 13th:

My husband and I attended a Breastfeeding class at the hospital. The teacher mentioned that breastfeeding serves as a fairly good method of birth control. My husband leaned over and whispered, ‘I really want our kids to be close in age. I wish she’d address options about working around the birth control part. I was hoping you’d be pregnant again by October’.

‘EXCUSE ME?!?!’ I said loudly.

The class spun to look at me.

‘December?’ he whispered, genuinely confused at my shock.

I waved a quick ‘I’m sorry but I want to smack my husband’ hand at the teacher and she moved on, seeming to understand.

In the notes section of my booklet, I wrote, ‘NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO and HELL NO’ and drew a smiley face.

June 14th:

Judging by the fetal body slams to my abdomen I suffered during the entire appointment… my kid likes my dentist about as much as I do.

June 16th:

When getting out of the shower at 4:30 a.m., I noticed a trail of blood down my legs. Panicking, I woke up my husband. ‘Honey, there’s something wrong with the baby!!! We need to go to the ER now!!’ I sobbed. He slowly ambled out of bed, rubbed the sleep from his eyes, stared at my legs and then said, ‘You cut yourself shaving’ as he pointed at my thigh. He stumbled back into bed and quickly back to sleep.

‘It’s not my fault I can’t see past this belly!!’ I yelled.

June 23rd:

After four long baby classes in one week, my husband said I owed it to him to watch the NBA draft together. I looked down at my belly and said, ‘I owe YOU?’

June 24th:

Stairs are the bane of my existence. Every time I reach the top, I sound like I just finished an Ironman race. Wouldn’t be a big deal, except there are lots of stairs at work. Having coworkers ask if you are out of breath from a quick walk around the block is embarrassing when you have to say no and turn around to point at the three stair climb as the culprit.

June 27th:

I noticed today that I haven’t heard anyone say, ‘You are so tiny’ for a really long time. Third trimester is lame.

June 30th:

I packed my bag for the hospital. No. I wasn’t in labor. I was simply dropping not so subtle hints to the occupant in my uterus.


36 weeks


15 Comments

  • Reply Deb |

    You ARE really tiny!
    36 weeks already and your bump looks the same as woman I know who are just 5-6 months.
    All this will be worth it… very soon… when you hold that tiny person and know that special Momma love… so, so, SO worth it.
    Blessings on the journey~

  • Reply She-Ra |

    I agree – based on the picture you are crazy tiny in an I’m so jealous way. Also, thought the shaving incident was funny. After the fact, of course.

    Hang in there!

  • Reply Money Beagle |

    My wife did lose weight at the end of both of her pregnancies, but it was at the very, very end, like the last two weeks before she delivered.

    Good stuff!

  • Reply Jenn |

    Breast feeding is NOT a method of birth control! Plan accordingly or your husband may get his wish of having the second immediately after the first.

    I know you’ve setting aside extra savings to cover baby expenses etc, but have you done up a new version of your budget to include daycare when you’re back at work? And perhaps a third version with two in daycare? I don’t know what daycare costs in your area but here it’s $800/mth in a private home and $1200/mth in a daycare centre with a staff of Early Childhood Educators. The one we had reduced fees as the child got older (and the teacher/child ratio dropped). With two in daycare at $2400/mth in after tax dollars, that can be a budget killer. Makes the cost of formula/diapers seem pretty insignificant.

  • Reply Mar |

    You are so big – NOT! You look fabulous and if your co-workers are wondering why you are out of breath, they just don’t know or understand. You’re in the home stretch now, but it will seem like it’s really stretching out. Keep hydrated, relax, baby will come when baby is ready. That could be tomorrow or in six weeks – just accept it.

  • Reply jaye |

    “Fairly good method of birth control” is very much like “kind of pregnant”. Actually, they have quite a bit in common.

    My second child is proof of that. Ask around and you’ll see I’m not the only one. BTW, I never got my period between the two kids, so that tells you nothing.

    I think you look great. I miss those days!

  • Reply Niki |

    You do look so tiny!

    I would have smacked my husband too. Pregnant by October, ha I’m still giggling.

  • Reply Sarah |

    I read the breast feeding birth control remark to mean that one or both wouldn’t want to have sex during this period of life…not that breast feeding inhibits getting pregnant. I hope we all know that is not true. People get pregnant while nursing if they are not using any form of birth control!

  • Reply Mog |

    >I hope we all know that is not true.

    Planned parenthood says it is.

    http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control/breastfeeding-4219.htm

  • Reply Becki |

    You are so tiny! You will be one of the few to wear your regular pants home from the hospital…

  • Reply Newlyweds Budget |

    Just wanted to let you know that yours are by far my favorite bump updates 🙂

  • Reply mv |

    I’d be very skeptic at the breastfeeding as a form of birth control thing. I have a niece and nephew 18 months apart to prove it…and my sister was also taking some low-dose birth control pill at the time.

So, what do you think ?