It's past 2AM and I can't sleep as usual for this third trimester, but something feels different in my body. This little girl has been moving a lot more just hours earlier when we Miller's were all awake and playing after dinner. Actually, I wasn't playing...but I watched Breanna and daddy play with each other while I watched. I've had a different kind of contraction during dinnertime; it had a little pain to it. I'm assuming the contraction was a Braxton Hicks, but tinged with pain.
Another change I've noticed is that I could feel her movements a little closer to the "exit" region. I'm even feeling a lot heavier in the pelvic region, and yet I haven't gained much weight since last month. Could this mean that she's dropping (or the book terminology calls it "enlightenment")? I am so curious how much I've effaced and dilated so far, or if I have at all. This pregnancy is so much different from that with Breanna, it seems like the time will come sooner than Breanna's 41 weeks gestation...and 38 weeks is kinda what I'm hoping.
I thought it would be nice to deliver any day this week, but, according to the pregnancy books, at 32 weeks the baby would be considered a fragile preemie and may have to live in an incubator several weeks to survive. So now would not be a good time. How convenient it would be for us, though, if our baby was term at this time since David has 3 weeks off until switching to his new job. I'm hoping that in these 3 weeks, he could get some major work done on baby prep: cleaning the carseat cover, rearranging super heavy furniture in our bedroom to fit the bassinet/changing table, cleaning off the dust from all our baby equipment stored in the garage...just to name a few.
Anyways, back to sleep I shall try. I need to start documenting changes daily now since the changes are happening much more indiscreetly.
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