Week 35 Update

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But seriously folks, I am hobbling around like an old lady with advanced osteoporosis.  Suddenly, it's like the uterine explosion has ransacked my muscles, tendons, ligaments and all that stuff in my pelvis, upper thighs, hips and where ever my abdominal muscles are hiding and I can't move.  Like literally.  I never knew what people meant when they "threw their back out, can't come into work today" but I totally get it now.  I could not get out of bed this morning.  Like at all.  Like I might as well have been paralyzed.  Weird.  After some Tylenol and application of heat, I can move around, but dang!  Can't do this every day.  Not sure if the answer is more or less activity, prenatal massage, a chiropractor, consistent application of heat and Tylenol or living in a swimming pool/bath tub, but I gotta figure out something.  Five weeks to go and I got a lot of stuff to do...

I think little dude's doing well, though.  He's developed all new moves due to his increasingly cramped quarters.  I still can't tell what's what, but I'm happy to know he's wiggling around in there. He gets the hiccups several times a day and has dance parties mostly early morning/late night.  They say those patterns continue after birth.  Yay!  At least he won't be tap dancing on my bladder once he makes his escape.  So, all in all, I still feel very fortunate that I've felt so well (aside from the occasional nervous breakdown/crying fit, random bout of extreme nausea, protesting digestive system, disagreeable muscles, sciatica, double chin growth, sometimes severe fatigue and giganto boob syndrome) and think I can hang on till he gets here without totally losing it, but that's still over a month away.  We shall see...

Oh, and all of the week 35 updates say he's the size of a honeydew, which he was last week.  Of course he's not honeydew like at all now or then. I don't know why they insist.  Now he's the size of a five pound baby...  because he is.