Pregnancy Week 28: Third Trimester, Insomnia & the Gestational Diabetes Test

And, um, the, yeah, I mean, things are feeling just kind of like my body is no longer my own.

And, um, as much as I love sharing my body with my baby, cause it's so sweet to feel them kicking.

Um, it also is kind of a bummer.

It's I'm definitely at a stage in pregnancy where I'm feeling really sad that I can't run and train the way I want to.

If I go too hard, I just feel SI joint pain.

And I've had to really learn how to like dance that fine line of I'm doing enough hip mobility and PT to get some miles in.

I feel very grateful for it, but of course I'm greedy.

And like, I do wish I could run longer and run more overall without having pain.

So I don't know.

It's such a hard, it's so hard to, I feel like I know other mother runners get it, but I also feel like a little guilty that I'm experiencing this grief that I can't train right now, even though it's such a short season.

But you know, it's like, if you're, less fit going into postpartum.

And then I plan on taking like eight ish weeks off potentially more, um, to recover from birth.

And then, yeah, it's just, you know, it's like going to be a season of rebuilding and I want that season of rebuilding to go as smoothly as possible.

Right.

But what I keep just telling myself is if my SI joint is super inflamed going into birth, even with that eight weeks off, like I'm not setting myself up for success.

So just trying to, yeah, be cognizant of that.

But I'm just going to be super transparent.

It's easier said than done.

Let's see.