It’s July and I can’t believe it. Two months from now I’ll be getting ready to give birth.

Well, I’m pretty sure I’ll be more than ready to not be pregnant anymore at least.

It’s not that I don’t enjoy being pregnant, I do. I just don’t enjoy everything about it.

Things I do not enjoy about being pregnant:

Getting up to pee at least three times every night.
I have not gotten 8 full, straight hours of sleep in a long time, and I fear that isn’t going to change, especially after the baby is born.

Getting up to pee about every two hours when I’m awake.
This is a pain in my ass. The townhouse MD and I live in has one bathroom. This bathroom is upstairs, so every few hours I need to haul my ever growing belly up 12 steps to pee. Stairs at this point are not my friend.

The constant back pain.
Of course I don’t like this, who would? The only time it goes away is when I’m sitting in a hot bath but as soon as I get up, the back pain comes back.

Round ligament pain.
Listen, I didn’t even know I had round ligaments and I think it’s unfair to be punished with pain in them. I think as a general rule I shouldn’t have to feel pain in places I don’t know exist. If that was the case I would forget I have a uterus too, especially during labor. :)

Heartburn.
I don’t know if Satan has moved the location of Hell to my stomach or there is a baby dragon living in there, or what. I have the worst heartburn no matter what I eat. I drank a glass of milk the other morning, MILK, that was it, and I got heartburn. I just hope to have an esophagus left when I’m done being pregnant.

Being round and clumsy.
I am getting very round (I gained 6 more pounds the last time I went to the doctor, that puts me up to 10 pounds gained so far) and my ligaments are also becoming very stretchy, this makes for a round clumsy person. My swollen feet don’t help either.

I’m sure there are more little things, but I think I hit all the high points for this time.

On the other hand there I things I love about being pregnant that I’m going to miss after Muffin is born. If I didn’t have a Muffin to look forward too I would be very sad after the pregnancy was over.

Things I love about being pregnant.

Feeling Muffin move around.
Hands down, this is what I love the most. I love that I can just sit and feel him squirm and move and kick. It is the coolest thing EVAH! I love it and I will miss it after he is born.

My big round belly.
I guess I have sort of a love/hate relationship with it. It’s big and round and gets in my way, but I love it too. I have never felt more beautiful than I have at times during this pregnancy. I feel smooth and round and beautiful, like a woman.

Knowing I have created a life.
I feel like Muffin is the tangible part of my love for MD and his for me. You can’t see love, you can only feel it, but when I think about this baby I know that every time I see him I will be reminded of how much I love MD. Right now this seems wonderful, God forbid we should break up someday and I’m sure it will irritate me to be reminded of that, but I won’t worry about that for now. :)

Buying baby stuff.
I love looking at all kinds of baby stuff. I can’t believe how little everything is or how cute it all is. I never spend money on myself, but I will never have enough money to spend on my Muffin.

Brining another generation into the world.
I am happy to be giving Mommie a grandbaby, and I’m even more glad to be giving Gramma a great grandbaby. I don’t know how much longer my Gramma will be here with us, but I want her to see and hold the next generation of our family. After everything she has been through in her life, she deserves that. I’m happy I’m the one who gets to give it to her. I feel blessed to be able to bring the hope of new life into my family.
It also happens to be Gramma’s birthday today! So HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRAMMA!! I love you lots. <3

Making my own family.
I’m so excited for MD and I to be creating our own family. It scares me a little too, all change does, but I just can’t wait!

So, there’s good and bad (like everything else) in being pregnant. There are things I’ll miss about it when I’m done, and there are things I wont miss at all.

Actually, now that I really think about it, I am going to miss everything, even the peeing all the time and constant heartburn. These are all things I went through to bake my little Muffin, and every moment of this pregnancy, wether good or bad has been another stepping stone to the birth of my first baby.

Seven months down, two months to go!

I can’t believe it’s getting this close.