I’m on my last day of week 34th of my pregnancy, which means I’m six weeks away from my due date. Everyone said that my third trimester would stink and said how hard it would be. But so far, my third trimester has been my best. Yes, I’m tired a lot and feel as though I can’t get enough sleep. Yes, I can’t seem to control my bladder. Yes, I’m feeling the baby more now that he’s growing about a 1lb every two weeks and he loves to kick my ribs. Yes, I’m getting more short of breath when I walk. BUT, none of this can beat my fractured tailbone…

A lot of people say that you don’t know what motherhood is until you have your own. I have to disagree because I’ve helped raise quite a few kids in my time. And while I don’t have to be financially responsible for these children that I’ve helped to raise, I know that I have helped their parents look for pre-schools, day cares, high schools and other important things in their lives. I’ve changed their diapers. Helped feed them. Helped clothe them. I’ve rocked them to sleep during the day and at night as they were growing up. I’ve witnessed their “firsts” – first steps, first words, first birthdays, first days…

Just hit my 29th week of pregnancy which leaves me 12 weeks to my expected due date. So many things have happened in the last couple of weeks with my pregnancy. Went in for our monthly check up and what can I say? Why is it that I can never leave the doctor’s office with only good news? My doctor informed me that I failed my glucose test which means I could be diabetic, but he told me he wouldn’t make me take the 3-hour exam because I don’t have any family history of having diabetes. That was until I got weighed. I weighed in at 138lbs… marking me as…

It’s week 24 of my pregnancy and I recently received the results of my week 20 anatomy ultrasound exam. With each exam, my ratio risk for having a down syndrome baby increases. One wonders why a 31-year-old woman would have such a risk, but it seems while my vitals are all perfect when I complete my exams for me (test results for blood pressure, diabetes, etc), it seems my body doesn’t want to agree with them. Before I took my week 11 exam, my risk for down syndrome was at about 1/575 – they gave this ratio to me based on the average ratio that women my age have in…

I’m ending my 18th week of pregnancy tomorrow. While it seems quick, I feel it also went by slowly. It’s an odd sensation to feel like time is going too slowly but at the same time I’m surprised I’ve progressed this far. Everyone has been asking whether I’ve felt the baby kick yet and up until this morning I’ve felt nothing. Late last night (early this morning around 3am), I started feeling the baby kick. The baby is very fond of kicking my bladder. It seems our baby will be active at night mostly… so I’m not looking forward to that after birth, but hopefully it will change. We shall…

To add to my life of complications during pregnancy, I’ve recently injured myself on Monday during this week 18 of my pregnancy. This after not needing to vomit for the last two weeks I thought I was in the clear. But leave it to me … the accident prone person… to have more issues to worry about. I’ve been rather constipated from the pregnancy the last two weeks and was in the bathroom on Monday afternoon. While I was attempting to go to the bathroom, I heard and felt a popping noise coming from my bottom. I knew immediately it was my tailbone because I’ve injured it twice before, but…

I had a great week last week, but I’ve had very restless sleep this past week. Not sleeping is such a pain to my brain. I’ve been thinking about this and why I’ve had restless sleep this past week and I realize I’ve been having dreams this week every night. I’m not sleeping because my brain isn’t getting any rest. So, what is my brain thinking about? My dreams are non-coherent. But, I’ve been thinking while I’m awake in the day about it the last couple days. I still don’t know what my brain is thinking about, but I know what I think about while I’m awake. I’ve been thinking…

For as long as I could remember, as a child, I always longed to be a mother. To have a family of my own. To have the happy nuclear family. I guess it was because I never had a nuclear family… My parents were divorced when I was two. But I had the love of my extended family along with my mom and my brother who have taught me the meaning of family. When I was 13 I decided I wanted to adopt a little girl from China after I heard about the one-child law there. When I was 25 I was told my chances of having children were at…