I am just babbling now

Childbirth classes, checked. We are now the experts of pooping babies.....NOT!

I can't say I am not excited and at the same time, I also don't want to admit that I am super confident I can do this. Mixed feelings exactly! The instructor gave us a stack of handouts. Not a lot, but enough for me to review whenever possible. TB likes practicing the "he, he, who" breathing with me - he thinks it's funny when I do it. Maybe he needs "he, he, who" more than I do.

The big belly gets in the way in everything nowadays, even sex. This is frustrating me a lot. I feel bad for fat people and I swear I will never want to be fat. The 3rd trimester is hard not because of the hormones, but because of the extra weight on the body that makes me hard to breathe, hard to sit, hard to walk, and hard to cycle. It does not help when there are staircases in our apartment that I have to go up and down every day. Guess that's a workout itself.

Still, going to the gym makes me feel normal.

TB made me look at myself with the bare belly in the mirror. Good Lord am I huge. The side view is definitely different than the top view where I can see the belly. The belly is sticking out A LOT. This makes me wonder: how is blueberry sitting or crunching or floating in the uterus?! Does he have enough space to twist and turn? How is he able to do all those tricks he's been pulling that can be annoying?

We'll soon find out in the next doctor's appointment where we will see him again.

I am still doing a lot of work considered how my mom has ordered me to lie in bed all day. Blueberry does not like it a lot because when I am in the sitting position, I tend to press him. And if he is heads down now, oh yeah, he is being pressed. If he comes out with funny head shape, blame me.

I have been going back and forth of the shoe shop in the neighborhood, not to buy new shoes, but to stretch out my old ones. How nice that they offer the service. We'll see if I could stretch out the 8s into 9s. Oh boy do I need it.

My mom also ordered me to eat red beans and mun beans (green beans?). Red beans to provide energy and iron; green beans to get rid of excess water. One thing I am excited about for the post-labor is definitely the confinement meals I ordered. The menu looks good and I am really happy to know that someone will be cooking for me for the whole 30 days - that's probably one good thing about being a Chinese woman because the post-partum importance in our culture.

You know, if you are white, or non-Chinese, you should do the same. I am all for taking care of the body before and after labor and delivery. There are theories, even though they might not have been backed by science, that you just can not take it lightly.


#babblingpregnantwoman
DearJulie

---
Workout of the day (with low intensity)
Treadmill: 30 minutes
Lats:3x10
Triceps: 3x10
Deadlifts: 3x10
Squats: 3x10
---