38 weeks! Full term for singletons! Neat-o! The stats say 50% of twin pregnancies get to term but I thought for sure we'd be in the pre-term category. Go team!
I thought I'd list the "damage" for posterity.
I've gained about 80#
I've gained a distinct and slightly disturbing afternoon TV habit, but I like it.
Super puffy hands and feet with the occasional cankle
Really achey hands, wrists and insteps
A super nice staring out of the window habit
My stretch marks arrived yesterday. YESTERDAY!!!
Severe heartburn arrived yesterday. There isn't enough calcium in the world to soothe it.
and the good
No hemhorrhoids! YAY!
No constipation
Time to read
The only physical side effect of pregnancy that I was dreading was hemorrhoids. I'm glad I don't have them, but considering what has shown up in the past few days, I'm not assuming that they still won't show up. Just a few days ago I thought I was getting out of this without stretch marks. I had dared not speak it until this week and blammo! There they are. So if I wake up with a hemorrhoid tomorrow, I have only myself to blame. I don't mind having the stretch marks, I just thought I had weaseled my way out, and to get them in the last week of pregnancy is sort of mean don't you think? Gregg, sweet thing, "can't see them". The heartburn is freaking epic. How's about a razor blade cocktail with a boiling vinegar chaser? Luckily it's not constant, but it has woken me up a couple of times and once or twice i thought I was going to hurl. Cereal is my main food group now and that keeps it under some control.
Ahhh! 4 days to go.
