Baby / Pregnancy

Pregnancy Update — June

To answer some (unasked) questions: 1) Yes, I wear that dress a lot — my maternity wardrobe is limited. (And if you think you’re tired of seeing it, just think how tired I am of wearing it.) 2) Yes there is pretty much always clothes on the floor in our room, and 3) sometimes our bed is made, but most often it’s not.

Pregnancy brain has started a bit, though it’s not nearly as bad as it was with Prim (not yet anyway!) Although, I live in a perpetual state of “mom-brain” so maybe that’s why it doesn’t seem so bad this time around?

weeks: 19+

baby’s size: mango

i’m feeling: ok. My nausea is intermittent, reappearing randomly and without reason. I’m still tired a lot, despite my extra iron intake. At my 16 week check I told the midwife that I wasn’t feeling that great, and she informed me that with third pregnancies and beyond the first trimester symptoms tend to last a lot longer and then added “but you likely won’t get back to your baseline energy levels at all this pregnancy.” So… that’s cool.

food love: peaches, grapes, and bagels.

food hate: not too many things. Meat is always a tricky proposition during pregnancy for me, but right now it’s more that I’ll be “in the mood” for something more than actively avoiding another food or food group.

3 pros for june: 1. Summer seems to have officially started. Prim is done with preschool and we’re gearing up for summer swim lessons! 2. I recently ordered a maternity rashguard so I can start swimming laps again (my SPF 100 skin makes me avoid it if I have to put sunscreen on my back — tricky when you’re by yourself.) 3. KC and I just booked a little getaway for the two of us in early July. I’m so excited to relax and recharge (and fly without toddlers!)

3 cons for june: 1. The hot season is just starting and it is already HOT. I’m not sure how I’m going to survive the whole summer with this bump in the heat. 2. My stress levels have been all over the place this pregnancy. Sometimes I feel pretty good and even-keeled, while other times it feels like the world is caving in. Hormones are fun, guys. 3. I am already having birth anxiety even though I’m still months away from delivering. I feel like the anxiety gets worse with each successive pregnancy because your brain/body is like “Remember how it feels like you’re going to break in half when you deliver? FUN.”

currently living in: summer maternity dresses, and swimsuits when I can manage to be near a pool.

looking forward to: vacation!

dreaming about: having more time and more energy.