Stallis Studs: 38 week Up Date

I have finally made it to 38 weeks and considered full term. I am 77 % effaced and 2 cm dialed, a long way to go yet. It seams like forever ago I found out I was pregnant. Lots of things have changed since then. I have stopped working at the studio as of our trip in August. This baby has just stayed in my hips the whole time and made it hard to move like I use to. I have however been working for a friend for his company. But as of this whole week I have been on full maternity leave, no more work. What am I going to do with myself? I am hoping to spend quality time with Matt before the baby gets here.

My pregnancy is going well, as pregnancy's go. Matt was just so easy, I have had a bit of a different experience with this one. Here are a few of the fun things I get to go through.

Heartburn at night, I could out fire breath a dragon ,thank goodness for Tums!
I have to pee twice a night, not so bad except our only bathroom in downstairs!
Tiredness, no naps when chasing after a 3 year old, keeping house and working!
Allergies, no relief from medicine.
A low sitting baby, it has been sitting in my hips all a long so every time it gets the hiccups it is bouncing off my hip. And getting in and out of my car just got way too hard so now I get to drive the truck (One Plus)
PUPPS!!!!! It is a rash developed late in pregnancy and is extremely itchy! It affects one in two hundred pregnancys (lucky me) and will last till delivery. It starts on the belly and can spread to the legs, back, chest, wrists, ext. I wake up in the night scratching my belly ( in between potty trips) till it really hurts. It is said that 77% of the time those affected by PUPPS deliver boys. Even before they are born boys are a pain for their moms.

On the brighter side I think Matt is happy about having a baby come home to live with us. He likes to look at pictures of him as an infant and look at all the things for the baby and touch my tummy when it kicks. He still thinks there is a baby in his tummy and that his tummy got bigger like mommy's did. He once asked how the baby got out, I told him I go to the hospital and the doctors help me get the baby out. He seamed fine with the answer and it is close to the truth with out the detail. We will so how happy he is when baby does come home and all the attention is not on him.

I am ready to get to the next, harder, part of life. It sucks getting up and I can't get comfortable at night but I am ready to have my body back to myself. Even if that means chasing after a toddler and caring a baby. I'm not the first and not the last woman to ever do it and it hasn't killed any of them.

And here is a little comparison between baby and Matt belly sizes.

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