3rd trimester

Woot!
I made it! This pregnancy is flying by! I'm hopeful it continues to feel like that. Because right now it also feels uncomfortable. I am so le tired! I also have this crazy hip pain thing going on - I don't know what to do about that. It feels like there is a bubble in my hip, it is the worst when I lay down and on a scale of 1-10 I'd say it's an 8.5 when it is really bad. Heat helps it - but man, it's rough! For the most of this ride though this pregnancy had treated me so well - and I don't live in Haiti. Both of those things I am grateful for. I think I can manage in my super comfortable bed, with tons of pillows, a heating pad and a husband who will baaaaasically go get me anything I ask for if I am already in bed because he is a very, very sweet man.

26 ish weeks!

I'm carrying this one so different than I did Ana. Ana was looooow and this one is more middle.

It is strange to think of this pregnancy in terms of Sundays left with MJ. For example, I only have 2 more Sundays to work with MJ before Ben comes. That is alarming. Since I'm due the first week of March I decided not to work that first Sunday in March. I'd rather -not- go into labor while with Wendell... just a personal preference.

I've been starting to think more about the -birth-! I sort of want Meagan and Christine and I to just sit around and drink margaritas. And eating Subway (o.m.g. I miss deli meat.) I mean, because by that point it probably wouldn't hurt my baby riiiight? I go back and forth between getting an epidural or not. I've had it both ways so I don't really have anything to prove anymore (right?). And I feel like I could be overwhelmed with information, questions, questions being answered, emotions, etc. when Ben is born due to all his special circumstances and I sort of feel like I'd like to be able to be in my right mind - which I would not neccessarily say that I was after Ana came busting out. I seem to remember screaming and uncontrollable shaking and "please don't hand her to me!" But then the thought of sitting in bed just waiting also sort of drives me crazy. With a catheter. Ugh. With Zoe I was sooo tired I just slept from 6cm-10. Maybe I could just enlist another woman to give birth for me and I could stand by and watch?

It's also fun to give birth at the beginning of a month because I don't even count March in my calculations. I only say I have to get through Jan and Feb, which is nice.

Chick just got out of bed. She is standing next to me instead of sleeping 40 minutes after I put her down.

Me: "Do you want to say anything to the people?"
Zoe: "I love you."

True story. That just happened.