Sleeping is becoming more and more difficult for some reason. I will be cold all day long, but as I get ready for bed and actually lay down, I feel like I am laying in dead summer heat. It often takes me about 45 minutes to an hour to fall asleep. I am still waking, on average, every 2 to 3 hours to pee.
I am getting excited and nervous about moving. My apartment looks like a disaster, however I refuse to clean it since I will just have to re-clean one last time once I get all my stuff out. I have started packing my things. I went to Target and bought some big plastic tubs to store everything in. It would have been cheaper to plastic bag everything, but since this is one of a few moves that I will be making while pregnant, I decided it would be easier, not to mention more environmentally conscious to spend a little extra now to tote things around in. Mom said she would be here this Sunday around 8 or 9 am, so I hope to be back upstate and settled in around dinner time. The best part about this move will be the lack of actual helping I will have to do =) Being pregnant seems to make people a lot more prone to helping you out when it comes to lifting heavy things!!
Akeem left for Jamaica yesterday and won't be back until the 11th of October, so lucky him gets to miss the moving out process. Unfortunately, he's gone because of a death in the family, so I bet he wishes almost that he could be here instead of there, considering the circumstances. I didn't plan on moving until the day he got back, so that he could help, but my landlord is so anxious to get me out, that he offered to give me back half of my rent if I managed to move out this weekend instead! Fine by me! Just made a few calls to some strong friends and the move is good to go.
Today is my official last day of work, however I will still get paid for another week or so since I have accrued some time off that I never used. And by next week I should be back to work at my old job upstate. I am really looking forward to getting a simpler schedule back on track so I can focus more on relaxation.
I haven't grown much since the last belly picture. I measured the other day and I am 32 inches around! But since I never measured in the beginning, I can't tell exactly how much I've expanded. I know my jeans are a bit snug these days still, but I have my days where I know I am just more bloated than anything. Even though I'm no where near as big as I will eventually be, my body is really feeling the effects of being pregnant already. My shoulder was killing me the other day, and for the past two days, my lower back and abdomen are really feeling the stretch taking place inside. I feel like no matter how I sleep, my back just isn't comfortable. I wonder how much worse this will get as I grow! I've decided that it may be time to buy that mommy pillow that is supposed to do wonders... the "U" shaped pillow. But then again, I would like some opinions on that, because it seems to me like it may be a waist of money... I think that sticking a few body pillows, which I already have, or even regular pillows around, under or between areas of my body might work just as well. I think I really need to get to some stretching every day as well. I just feel out of shape right now, mostly.
Made my first pre-natal appointment upstate with Women's Health Group. October 14th I will go in for all the blood work and testing needed to make sure that mommy and baby are all healthy and ready to continue. Hopefully EMC clinic here in the Bronx will have mailed my needed paperwork by then so that I won't have to go through another sonogram (not that I would mind seeing my lil' bean again and hearing the heartbeat!) But it would just be simpler and faster if EMC would send the paperwork I already have. =) Since I don't have insurance right now, I need to look in to Medicaid and I need a butt load of paperwork for that as well, so the sooner I get it all together, the sooner I will feel more secure.
Again yesterday, the woman I spoke with on the phone at Women's Health Group estimated (based on my last period) that I was about 12 weeks... but I am only 10 weeks. So, now I see why the first woman thought I was two weeks farther than I really was as well. I guess all my timing was just off. Miracle baby? =)
I am trying to fight through being tired all the time, but I just feel so lazy... and I am still hungry... alllll the time. But all I seem to have left to eat in my house is cereal and soup. And neither one have been very appealing the past few days. It's like I'm hungry but have no idea what I want to eat. I crave fruit all the time still. And I haven't been eating any over the past few days because I refuse to go grocery shopping as well, since I leave in TWO DAYS! I don't need to buy anything else right now, and I don't think I could go into the supermarket and just buy fruit. In Target last night I had to pull myself away from buying some Ritz crackers for the block of Cracker Barrel cheese I have in my fridge... But, I am told that first trimester is time for being lazy. Everyone says enjoy the quiet time and the chance to have nothing to do, compared to when baby comes! Supposedly, in a few weeks (around week 17-ish) I should be more like my "old" self, energy-wise. Looking forward to it.
Until next post, all my love!
