Today is the baby’s “official” due date but he seems to be showing no signs of wanting to come out just yet. I have an induction scheduled for Dec 20th but I hope he comes soon as I’m tired of waddling and just want to get this labor and delivery business over and done with. Not looking forward to the pain at all.

Mom has arrived to help me through this whole process and Dad and sister and coming next month to see the baby.

Here are the latest belly pics.

At 32 weeks, baby was already head down and has remained that way since.  I’ve always been borderline anemic so have been taking iron supplements since early on.  I am swimming regularly 2x per week now as running is just not possible as my heart rate gets too darn high even at a slight jog.   Just warming up puts my HR at over 150 bpm!

33 weeks pregnant

At 36 weeks, I’m feeling like a big roly-poly-watermelon-carrying monster.  I think I’ve perfected the roll-and-push-maneuver at night to get out of bed and into the bathroom since I feel like I have to go a million times a night.  My husband has called me a beached whale but after a few evil stares he’s refrained from using that phrase to keep our marriage in tact.

36 weeks pregnant

I’m at 40 weeks today but still in my pajamas so will have to wait a little bit to take the 40 week prego photo. 

Weight gain to date is about 18 pounds.

Since I woke up today I have been sitting in front of my laptop for the last hour trying to figure out what would be my first post after yesterday’s crazy idea of committing to posting EVERY SINGLE DAY until my delivery date of mid-December.

There is no dearth of information in my head but for some reason I can’t seem to get it out into words.  So I’m just here typing away to keep the fingers moving.

What can I write about…hm….Aha!

Here is something I found in my drafts section that I started in late July and never got around to finishing.  Might as well kill two birds with one stone by using it for inspiration today and cleaning out my draft folder at the same time:

THERE GOES THE FIGURE. At 16 weeks pregnant, I am finally “showing” with a tiny little baby bump.  I can still fit into my pants but my stomach now looks like I perpetually come home from all-day Dubai-style brunch (I wish!).   However, I’m in that in-between stage that strangers would probably thing – “God she should lose some weight.”

Standing, I could probably still suck it in to avoid the odd stares.  But seated, my stomach looks like tiered rolls of fat. Anyone seeing me at the gym having breakfast would probably think inwardly that I should put down that fake-sausage and egg non-mcmuffin and get back on the treadmill.  Because you see, I don’t have that perfectly rounded pregnancy stomach just yet.

WEIGHT GAIN. I am also having trouble gaining weight.  I was underweight to begin with and aiming to gain about 25-30 pounds.  According to guidelines, in my second trimester I should gain 1 pound each week.  I thought that would be easy because pre-pregnancy I would eat for two AND finish DB’s leftovers.  I thought about food all-the-time!  I woke up wondering what I would prepare for dinner.  For example, I could spend hours on end looking for the perfect bulgogi recipe and driving to 3 different markets as well as Karama to get the perfect ingredients.

But now?  Although I have had no morning sickness at all, food no longer interests me.  I surmise that the reason for this can be one of two things.  One – I could chaulk it up to baby hormones.  Or Two – I subcounsciously do not want this baby and therefore not eating as a result.  I’m going to go with reason # 1.

20 weeks pregnant

Now back to the present day.  This week I am 30 weeks pregnant (only 10 more to go!!).  I kind of feel bad about what I wrote in the last paragraph above about not wanting the baby.  Now that the baby is moving and rolling around in my tummy like ALL THE TIME, I feel quite bonded to it/him and am very much looking forward to meeting my (gulp) son in December.  “Son.”  I still think that word and concept is so weird to voice out loud.  I’m going to have a “son”.  Son Son Son.  Weird.

24 weeks pregnant

My appetite is slowly coming back I think.  Although yesterday all I ate was a small bowl of cereal for breakfast, a chocolate brownie with one scoop of ice cream for lunch, and a big bowl of udon noodle soup with chile beef for dinner.  Now the brownie with ice cream thing I blame on the baby because I have had it for lunch FOUR DAYS IN A ROW.  Yeah, you read that right.  I have something like that maybe four times a year so FOUR DAYS IN A ROW???

28 weeks pregnant

Weight gain to date – 10 lbs since being pregnant.