Pregnancy Lately

As most of you know, or dont know, Im about 34 weeks pregnant. 

(34 weeks tomorrow)

Pregnancy has been the weirdest, loveliest, most unusual, most amazing thing to happen to my body.

People told me about the morning sickness and my feet swelling (They haven't swelled at all)

But nobody told me what "really" happens". 

Some of it I cant go into detail because I dont want to share that much with you. But nobody told me about my belly button changing. You see pictures of people as outies but I always figured they had outies to begin with. I dont have an outie just yet but my small petite belly button is GONE! Even though I dont really fix it my hair is looking really nice and is growing a lot which I like.I can't wear a lot of my clothing and maternity clothing is a little big. Im tired most of the time and, I have hot flashes every other hour or so, which is not good at work since the dont regulate the heat very well. So most of the time Im hot, which makes my stomach upset and gives me headaches. Im so glad I only have to go till, at the ost the begining of July. If Uno decides he/she wants to come late. I could not make it the hot days in July and August. (im sorry if you are pregnant and due after August). I also learned when you yourself becomes pregnant , everyone around you will also get pregnant. Maybe that just in "Mormon Land" (thats not meant to offend anybody, but hey theres a lot of mormons around here) but theres is a TON of people pregnant. I think every women able to child bear in my ward is either pregnant, or just had a baby. But back to my pregnancy. Uno has found out that he/she likes to roll around. Sometimes at night I will wake up with a pain in my stomach because he/she just rolled to the other side. And then I get confused when the feet and arms start kicking and punching on the other side of my belly. Which brings me to my next thing. My child loves to punch and kick at teh same time. Maybe theres not a lot of room in there and he/she is big. So they want to stretch and move around a lot but regardless he/she will kick and punch at the same time and sometimes (most of the time) it hurts. It is really cool though when Uno sticks out his/hers foot or elbow and you can clearly see it and feel a hard lump. I really like to feel it with my hand even though I feel it with my belly. I'm always like "James feel this, James feel that, look James you can see the elbow", and he puts his hand on my belly and shakes his head. Then he sometimes shakes it and the baby always takes back his/hers extremity, (I dont think he/she likes to be shaken). Also when I bend over, even though I'm small it is really uncomfortable. It feel so hard on my stomach all the time I dont think there any room in there. But I do know it is almost impossible to paint my toenails. I dod it yesterday and I about killed myself. Which also means it is very hard to tie my shoes. Sometimes my husband is great, and will tie my shoes. it's when im by myself that its horrible, because I like to wear my tennis hsoes to work but its hard to tie them. But after five minutes I manage and they get somewhat tied, but if they come undon during the day they stay that way. But I wouldnt trade not being able to tie my shoes and all the weird stuff that has happened to my body for anything. I love being pregnant and even though I ranted in the past senteces above, I really love being pregnant. It is one of the most amazing things I have ever done. To think there is a human growing inside me, that I provide for it one hundred percent is amazing. i love when it has the hiccups because you can feel them and they go for about five minutes. The baby usually wont let anybody feel it move, even if its going crazy and kicking all over if somebody puts their hands on my belly it wont move, but when it has the hiccups it cant stop them so you can feel them. Yesterday I watched one of my friends children while they went on a date. And I was holding one of the girls on my lap while reading a story to them. she had the hiccups and is was very constant then I start feeling two sets of hiccups and I pause for a second. Uno was hiccuping at the same time, it was cute I thought. his/her head was towards my back so you couldnt feel from the outside but it was cool to feel two babies hiccups. 

Im so excited to him/her. The most exciting part to me and I never realized this when other people were pregnant or even thinking baout myself, but this baby is unique and one of a kind. Im excited to see who it looks likes and what kind of manners it has. But there has never been a baby like our baby. James and I have created a unique human. That blows my mind every time I think about it. Im so excited for Uno to come and make his/hers entrance into the world. 

Just one more thing then I'm done.

Im so grateful for this little blessing, that God has enough faith in James and I, though we havent been married for a long time, trusts us enough to give us one of his spirit children. It really has strengthen my testimony that he loves us, and knows whats best for us. We are definitely working on his timeline here, and with faith we know that we will be able to provide everything it needs. We are going on a lot of faith since we have never done this before and are a little scared though very happy and excited for it to happen. 

Sorry if its really long but hope you enjoy it. 

xox Nicole