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A quick baby #3 update.

I’m shocked to admit that Kara and I are still going back and forth on a name for this little guy.  We know the first name and the middle name but we cannot decide, for the life of us, which name should be the first name and which name should be the middle name.  We have decided that we need to meet the little guy and that we would probably know the answer right away.  But it is weird because I feel like I referred to Jakob and Alex by name ALL the time when they were in my belly and poor baby #3 gets no recognition.  A lot of this is because Kara and I don’t want to discuss the name in front of the boys for fear they will tell the world.  If you ask the boys, baby #3 is either going to be called Baby Corey (Alex) or Fred (Jakob).  This is all thanks to our neighbors who keep telling the boys that those are the names of the baby.  It’s cute.

I am doing OK.  I’m just super uncomfortable most of the time.  I get a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions.  I keep an eye on them and at no point have they concerned me too much.  I feel like I can tell the difference between a real contraction and a Braxton Hicks contraction.  My uterus just hates me and gets irritated with each little movement that either I or baby boy makes.

I am down to 4 more P17 shots!!  I’m am so grateful for all the protection the shots have brought in this pregnancy but I am SO done with them.  My body is literally starting to reject the shots.  I can only do the shots on my right side.  If I have the nurse do the shot on the left side then I wobble like an old lady for an entire week.  But the skin is getting really irritated on my right side from the oil and just doesn’t have enough time to heal.  So I spend a lot of the week scratching my “butt” area.  Haha.  The injection site looks almost like a giant hive about the size of an orange each week.  And all I can do is scratch, scratch, scratch.  It starts to heal and then it is time for another shot.  It’s a vicious, but worthwhile, cycle!

My sleep is down the drain.  I surround myself with 5 pillows each night.  We have a really firm pillow that Kara has been telling me to use on my back and I finally gave it a try last night.  She’s never getting it back.  It was perfect.  I think sleep is rough because I wake-up so often because I have to pee.  And I literally feel like my hips are separating every time I roll out of bed.  I also have major pregnancy insomnia.  I tend to fall asleep about 10pm each night but then I am typically awake for at least 2 hours in the middle of the night.  Then by the time I finally get super comfortable and fall back to sleep it is time to get up.

I have to have my feet up most of the day at work.  I use a trashcan under my desk.  If I let my feet “dangle” on the floor I get nonstop contractions.

I’m still eating a lot.  But these days I am craving more and more sources of protein.  I cannot seem to get enough honey roasted peanuts at the minute.

I have my next OB appointment and MFM appointment next week.  I alternate between believing this little boy will make an early arrival, like the boys, at around 34 weeks and feeling like I’m totally going to remain pregnant for 40 weeks.  I am not embarrassed to admit though that if we can get to 37 weeks I’m going to be doing everything in my power to get baby boy to come out!!!  I’m done being pregnant and I just want to meet the little guy.  But I only want to meet him if he is on time and doing great!

Mary