Pregnancy journal 6-21-05
This week is #34 - wow! I can’t believe it! I am feeling really emotional and bloated and uncomfortable. I feel like I pee every hour (at least) and I can’t sleep for more then 15 min on one side before I have to flip. I was getting terrible leg cramps too - but my MW told me to take calcium and magnesium supplements (packaged together called Cal-Mag vitamins) and I have not had one leg cramp since I started taking them in the morning along with my prenatals! Getting up to pee about once an hour during the night doesn’t help either. And sometimes the baby is so active he/she actually wakes me up too! I try to nap during the day if I can find the time, but I can’t seem to get to sleep during the day - I can lay there for hours and I feel a little rested but wish I could actually get some good sleep. I do think that my body is just adjusting to not needing as much sleep so that I will be used to it by the time the baby comes…
Another thing is that I am always boiling hot when I go to bed - even though the AC is cranked up and Joe is freezing and under the down comforter and I am on top of the covers, naked and sweating with a fan directed at me and a cold washcloth on my forehead! I haven’t really been hungry for much besides fruit and popsicles - Joe makes fun of me because I have eaten about 3 whole watermelons by myself in the past week! I am starting to get more excited and nervous about becoming a mother. Joe finally realized last week that he can celebrate fathers day for the first time this year as he is about to become a father - it was really sweet…
