Weeks 31-35

Third trimester, gotta love it... most of the time, but definitely not all the time.

week 31+ 4 days

Week 32+4

Week 33+4

Week 34+4

Today! Week 35+1

Little notes:

• Wow! Just looking at these pics I can see how much I've grown since week 31! I'm definitely feeling it too.
• I weighed myself tonight, and weighed in at 64 kgs. So that's a total weight gain of 7 kgs.
• I'm still doing prenatal pilaties but it's definitely not as comfortable as it once was, but still good. I'm also trying not to to skip the flexibility part of the workout like I have in the past (due to my lack off) and finding it helps me to relax more.
• Ive started to feel a lot more of those not so lovely third trimester discomforts. For instance in week 32, I  self diagnosed myself with my first dose of sciatica pains (thanks google). This was the first and hopefully last time I ever experience this sharp lightning bolt pain that originated from the top of my hip, all the way to the tip of my toe of my left leg. It was nasty. I feel sorry for those women who get it all the time. Meanwhile, I've only gotten 1 more early morning leg cramp, so that's definitely a record considering how many I got in my previous pregnacies. 
• Just last week I started to feel that abdominal pain (it does have a fancy name that I forget). I Mainly get it when I've been picking up things from the floor that my monkey feet can't. It also doesn't help  when I have to pick up or carry Noah (trust me, not by choice). For instance, the other day when I chased him from one end of the school to the other and carried him all the way back, or like yesterday when I chased him from one end of the shopping centre to the other and again carried him back. And then there are all those times when I have to pick him up 'caveman' style and take him to the car kicking and whining because he doesn't want to leave El's kindy. Yeah, he's definitely not making it easy or pleasant. 
• I've also started to feel some pressure down there. Like right now! I just want to sit down, preferably with my legs crossed. Or wear some sort of cupping device that can hold everything up and tightly in place down there while i'm walking... that would be nice.
• I'm suffering from SFS (sore feet syndrome). My poor, poor little feet just aren't coping.
• At this point, between Noah's potty training and my frequent need to relive my bladder (especially at night), I feel like I might as well set up a tent in the bathroom. It makes me so sad when both munchkins are sleeping trough the night in their own room, in their own bed, but I have to tend to my bladder 6-7 times during the night..dam it!
• Now that I've listed all of these last points, it makes sense as to why the last week or so I've been feeling so tired. So, so, tired. If the kids let me sit down for longer than a minute (yeah right!), I will fall asleep.
• It's the most unique, wonderful, uncomfortable, strange feeling having a baby inside of me. I'm feeling his every move, stroke, kick, turn, wiggle, prodding etc. It really feels like any moment he's going to just break through my  skin...'Alien' style as there's not much room left in there. 
• I have a problem (pregnant or not). An expensive one. I had my first lychee last week and I have not stopped. I'm eating close to a kilo of them every night. In fact, tonight is the first night I haven't had any, and that's only because my lychee fund has run dry...for now. But I'm sitting here wishing a had a bag of them. It's quite depressing.
• I'm not a fan of summer. I never even knew it was possible to dislike it even more than I'm disliking it now, 35 weeks pregnant.
• We continue to call our little fellow 'baby no.3' as he remains nameless...help! 
• Some days I feel like I'm going to be pregnant forever! Other days I feel like it's happening too quickly! Either way, I'm excited to meet this little guy, a little nervous about the huge change that will come from it all, but excited none the less.
• Oh dear, I just re-read this and most of it sounds so depressing. It's not so bad. I much prefer this last part than the first part of pregnancy by far... trust me! Plus, you can weasel your way out of things (like renovating and some chores) because you actually look pregnant now. So It's all good. :)