31 Weeks and 3 Days

Howdy Friends, 

Today I am 31 weeks and 3 days along, that means that I am only 60 days from my due date! I am so excited to meet this little one but also so nervous. The closer I get the more these two emotions seem to spin around each other, it’s really crazy!

Anyways, these past few weeks have been pretty low key for the most part. Still battling heart burn, feels like its always here. I am also starting to experience not being able to sleep through the night. I will just wake up and be awake for a few hours, sometimes I can go back to sleep sometimes I can’t. The baby appears to be the most active throughout the night so maybe that has something to do with it, I don’t know. 

About a week and a half ago we had an appointment that went well. It was short but informative. The midwife said that everything was measuring on track and seemed really good. I also got my TDAP shot at that time. We have another appointment next week so that will be fun. I feel like they are starting to become really frequent the closer we get to baby’s birthday.

Last week we also had one of our group appointments. I must say, I really look forward to having them and enjoy the topics that are covered and the conversations that we have. This last one was about labor and what to look out for. We all did this exercise that I thought was interesting. They said that the most ethical way they could try and even show what contractions were kind of like would be with ice (this was mainly for the men but we all participated). We had to hold a chunk of ice in our hand for 1 minute, rest for 1 minute and use the same hand to hold ice again for 1 minute. Adam said it “burned” and I found it to make my arm tense. The problem was I could only feel it in my arm and that made me feel a huge disconnect from what I feel like contractions will be like. Either way, I thought the exercise was really interesting and sort of fun. And though it isn’t the same as a contraction, I think it was still helpful and will be something that I want to practice beforehand even if just to practice where to take my mind come go time. 

I have also started to drink a cup of Red Raspberry Leaf tea everyday. They say that it is supposed to help your uterus and make labor shorter. We will see of course, either way it’s delicious!

Tiffany