Sometimes I still can’t believe we are here. Germany? How random.
One night we are sitting at the dinner table in SF, having cocktails, blabbering about getting the “eff” out of the city and “how crazy it would be” if we just packed up and moved to Europe… and here we are, a year and a half later, Sprechening Sie Dick, in Germany.
What the HELL has happened? Have we gone insane?!
wholeheartedly.
Oh hey, and to add to the madness, our baby is due to arrive in 30 days!
Despite constantly feeling like I am battling the worst pms of my life every single day, I am happy. I really am. Things just feel…right, for the first time in a very long time. I am not afraid. Anxious over things completely unrelated to the baby, yes, but scared? Naaah. In fact, I’ve never felt so much cheesy “inner peace” in my entire life. Sure, having family and friends around would be icing on the cake, but I am confident that we can do this together and that we will be better people because of it.
Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?
Anyway, physically, I am feeling top notch. I have absolutely NO back pain and, still, no heartburn. Even my husband commented on how “out and about” I am and how people at work had told him that by now I’d be couch/bed ridden, moaning and groaning with discomfort. Nope! What’s even more strange is that the pelvic pain I’ve been experiencing since like week 12 is bothering me a lot less.
I am positive that the reason why my back is not causing me problems like it does for a lot of pregnant women is because I used to do pretty intense core workouts before I got pregnant and even during the first trimester. And now it’s paying off, big time. If there is one piece of advise I can offer anyone even thinking about getting pregnant, it would be to start working on your core NOW. It has seriously saved me.
As far as the heartburn, I am wondering if me not having had any has anything to do with her size. She is measuring really small but within the normal range for her gestational age (in the 19th percentile for weight). According to our sonograms, her femur length has been the only thing that has been close to “off the charts”, measuring in the 98th percentile, consistently. Very weird. Does having a ridiculously long femur indicate anything? Tall and skinny, perhaps? Either way, small baby, that is my theory for having no heartburn.
In regards to my other baby, D is feeling crummy. I took her to the vet yesterday to get her vaccines up to date and to have her “de wormed” , which we found out, during our childbirth class, is super important to do when you have small children around. I had no idea how serious it can be if a child, particularly a baby, gets worms from a dog. You can google the creepiness. I guess here in Germany worms are pretty common and so vets don’t even bother testing the stool first, they just routinely administer the medication. Yeesh. Anyway, D got a shot, a physical and got dewormed…. and now I can tell that she’s not feeling so well. Poor thing but at least she is healthy and we can feel somewhat confident that she wont be spreading any lethal diseases to the baby. 
I think it’s about time for my mid morning nap. Just felt like babbling into empty space a little.
35 weeks:
