Pregnancy Update [Baby #3]: At 31 Weeks

Nine more weeks to go (that is, if she'll stay till full term) and we'll finally meet our precious baby girl! I can't believe I'm almost close to my due date. Oh, how time flies by so quickly! This wait has been overwhelming and I am so ready to get this done and over with.

The past weeks were like "hell weeks" for me. I was incessantly ill and doing household chores was such an agony. There were even times I didn't want to get out of bed and just lay there for the rest of the day. But I have the two little boys to take care of so I really had no choice but to drag my weak body out of bed and do work around the house. Those were the times I wished I had somebody around to help me out while my husband's at work. It's been tough because I could only do so much and the kids completely depend on me. No matter how much I wanted to take naps, that seemed impossible because they don't nap at the same time. When one is asleep, the other is up, thus leaving me with no time to myself. I can only take a nap when my husband is home because he watches the kids, and that's only during the weekends. During the weekdays, I just can't. The result? A lot of unexplainable pains. But like what I always say to myself, I can tolerate whatever pain there is as long as I know the baby is all right.

Right now, I still have pain and most of it is felt along my pelvic area, lower abdomen, and left lower back. I've been told by my OB that pretty much, the only cure to all of this is, delivery. The baby puts on a lot of pressure now that she's getting bigger (I already gained excessive weight) and it adds to whatever weight I already have to carry for having a big tummy. Just imagine an average-sized Asian woman carrying a gentle giant's child in her womb. [hahaha] Oh, the bittersweet fact of pregnancy! And because of all these pain and discomforts I'm having now, I'd say I'm done being pregnant! Time for my body to recuperate and have its prepregnancy figure back. I can't wait!

Hopefully, the last remaining weeks won't be as bad as the past few ones. I'm really praying and hoping for that.