A Pregnancy Post

As I looked back through my blog books to find info on some of my other pregnancies, I realized I didn't write much about them.  Really, who wants to post chubby pregnant pictures of themselves for people to view.  :)  I did want to remember things that I had forgotten and I was sad there wasn't much to find so I guess here is a dedicated pregnancy post.  Sunday, Aug 17th, we decided to go on a family bike ride.  I decided 1/4 of the way through that my bike riding days should be over for a while.  I was on the smaller bike where my knees had to come up higher and I really couldn't ride that, so I took the bigger bike pulling the two small children.  That was hard too, just not as uncomfortable.  Along the way we ran into Steve and Candace.  Steve thought it was a good idea to hook Emerson to our chain and see if I could pull all of them.

I had hopes of getting away with no hip/pelvic pain this pregnancy, but no luck.  It started when I hit about 27 weeks and keeps getting worse.  If I don't do anything or walk anywhere it doesn't hurt too much yet, but even just walking around the grocery store makes it flare up.  I failed my one hour glucose test so I had to take the three hour one yesterday.  I felt ok during the test until I got home and then I got weak and shaky and broke out into a sweat.  I think my blood sugar was too low, because I don't have gestational diabetes.  

I think it is hard to name babies.  I think I like a name until I think about it for a while, or tell a few people what it is and I start to second guess it.  Right now I think our favorite names are Ian, Toby, and Graham, so we'll see what we end up with.  The baby is getting big enough to kick under my ribs now - so uncomfortable!  I get anxious at night this pregnancy, like I did with Lucy.  I start to feel my skin and up my throat crawl and I can't stand anyone to touch me.  I just have to go to bed when that happens, but it is hard to fall asleep.  I wake up in the morning feeling fine.  I hate it.  I hope it goes away quick after the baby is born.  I also have mood swings this pregnancy, like during all the others.  I'll have several days where I'm fine and not too ornery, and then one day I wake up and I can tell immediately it will be a long day where I'm irrationally grumpy and snap at everyone and everything bothers me.  Such fun!  Overall this pregnancy hasn't been any worse than the others.  I still have 11 weeks to go though, so I may change my mind.  :)