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Goldi0218
My miracles!
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Re: Ok, be honest with me...
Beth your pain is your pain and your comfort is your discomfort. Do not let anyone minimize that or invalidate you. Feel how you feel.
I think everyone handles things differently and that goes without saying. When women take a look at my hard core cankles asking when I am due, I tell them "end of August." They look at me with pity, compassion and sympathy. Carrying large through the summer - fun times.
At 32+ weeks, there is nothing comfortable about this. I can't stand. I cannot sit. I cannot sleep. I can't even do a #2 once a day (too bad if its TMI, we are sharing here.) I don't complain until and unless someone asks how I am feeling or unless they project what THEY went through in their pregnancies - which is also a hoot. You gotta love the ones who ALWAYS have it worse than you. Ya know what? Their pain was theirs. Mine is mine and it is what it is.
Frankly, I would just like 10 minutes of sweet comfort without someone telling me "you need to breast feed so the poop doesn't smell as bad, so you don't have a fat kid and so your kid doesn't have allergies." That would be enough for me - won't happen though.
Again, I also waited longer than I thought to have this child and went through a process that I did not anticipate to conceive her, but that is not making it any easier on my body. I am also not exactly a young chippy either. I am willing to bet that had I been 10 years younger and PG, I would be a lot less uncomfortable. Though 10 years ago, I was 200 plus pounds and single so who knows how a pregnancy would have manifested on my body and psyche back then.
As one person told me throughout out my process, "keep your eye on the prize." I take each week that passes as one step closer. With every movement I feel inside of me, I DO realize how blessed I am. I want to meet this angel. I want to see what Ed and I look like when ultimately merged (even though our bank accounts aren't after 2 and a half years of marriage  ) I pray to G-d that I see pieces of my parents in her. I'd like to look up to heaven and show them what I did and they can be proud of what Ed and I have done as they were when all of my nieces and nephews were born. It will be worth every ache, pain, gas bubble and new pair of shoes I had to buy because my feet look like pasty white chicken sausages.
 to all and we should all stay as comfortable and cool as possible.
ETA: And the DH's DON'T understand as demonstrated by the look of disdain and wonderment by my DH when I didn't run up and down the stairs to help him lug in stuff we bought from Lowe's today. 14 steps? Summer? I do NOT think so. I'm cooking your legacy in my belly - YOU do it!
Message edited 7/6/2008 6:31:20 PM.
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Member since 6/07 42079 total posts
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Re: Ok, be honest with me...
Posted by Goldi0218
I'm cooking your legacy in my belly - YOU do it!
i am going to frame this 
i really have very little to complain about this pregnancy. the worst part, for me, is not being able to (easily) do things i normally take for granted - walk up stairs, stand for semi-long periods of time, go an hour or two without peeing. plus, i am tired pretty much all the time, and have no energy to do simple things like cook dinner... meanwhile, my DH is working almost 30 hours of overtime a week, and i feel terrible that i don't have dinner on the table when he comes home at 8pm. he has been amazing, so i am lucky, but it doesn't help with the guilt - i am jewish. 
as the weeks go on i can totally see why women say that they are tired of being pregnant. will i do this again? without a doubt. but i'm not in as much of a hurry as i was when i first got pregnant.
like other posters said... i know it will all be worth it when  gets here, but he really can't get here soon enough!!
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MrsRivera
2 under 2...whew!!
Member since 2/07 9876 total posts
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Beth
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Re: Ok, be honest with me...
Posted by melijane
beth have you tried acupuncture?
I've been twice--the first time I tried it was about 3 weeks ago. I had heard good things about it, but it's tricky for me: I have a bad back to begin with, and it gets stiff if I lay in the same position for too long.
Since the awful pain is down my right leg, she had to have me lay on my stomach for 40 minutes, and I think that did more harm than good. I wasn't able to lay on my right side for the treatment because for some reason, laying on the left side is the worst position for the pain.
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KateDevine
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Re: Ok, be honest with me...
I hated being pregnant every single minute of it. DS is 14 months old and I am still not over it. It only got worse with each passing day.
But I have a wonderful DS to make up for it!
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