It’s moments like this when I am so glad that we’re living at the pub. It’s now almost 5am and after a really bad nights sleep, I am wide awake. It’s quite common during pregnancy to have issues with sleeping, mostly because it get quite uncomfortable in bed – though I have to say that buying a body pillow was the best thing I ever did as it’s made things much more comfy! I’ve had a bit of an achy belly all day yesterday and I put it down to baby growing, all of a sudden she has wedged herself under my ribs. She has been quieter than normal too, not as many big kicks and rolls – more squirmy, trying to get comfy now that she’s head down type movements. Anyway, I ended up just feeling really kind of sick, so maybe it was something I ate? Blah. Maybe she is feeling off too?
So whilst I’m sitting in bed typing away and facebooking, my hubby is fast asleep beside me. He’ll be up in an hour or so, once the babies wake up and get them showered and feed them breakfast and get the older boys off to school. And where will I be? Fast asleep until my bladder is ready to burst and then I’ll jump out of bed and run down our long hallway to the toilet(oh how I miss having an en suite!). He is such a good hubby! Some days I’ll send him a text to say that I’m awake and he’ll come in and give me cuddles, usually joined by a couple of little toddlers. Got to love those!
No wonder I am finding this pregnancy so easy to the last few. I’m spoilt! But I’m really happy that I’m almost 31 weeks and am going pretty well. It’s pretty alarming how fast it’s going though and I’m running out of time to get things done. I think I spend most of last night getting the business books up to date. That’s probably why I didn’t sleep well, too many numbers floating around in my head – I really, really hate maths. There’s not much time to think about being pregnant I suppose, there is too much to do business-wise, cleaning, chasing toddlers and breaking up their little fights, carting older kids to swimming carnivals and the like. It’s only when I stop and feel the kicks and wriggles, or bend over to pick up the kids toys only to realise that I can’t actually bend over that far anymore and I think ‘Oh yeah, I’m pregnant’.
Well, the sun is starting to rise now and I really should try and go back to sleep so I can get up at a decent hour. The kids will be awake soon, no doubt about that.
Before I go, here’s to a happy 15 months to my baby boy Jye. 15 months ago, my labour was just beginning and we journeyed to a beautiful home water birth. Now, he’s my little toddler boy – getting into mischief and learning to run. My sweet baby boy.
