Pregnancy Week 33: Running Less, Nesting More & Preparing for Labor

Symptoms, running, training.

I don't even think I talked about running last week, which is fine because I think it's just an indication of like how much I am just not focused on running right now.

And this is just so contrary to my first pregnancy.

I really wish I had like more documentation of my first pregnancy.

I definitely have lots of like pictures and videos on my phone of me running.

My first pregnancy, I mean, I didn't have a toddler, right? So I think I was taking all of this anxious energy of like, my whole life's about to change and I was using it, putting it into my business.

I was working so hard going into fourth trimester, my first pregnancy, because I just was like trying to prepare my business for this like completely unknown chapter of being a mom and being an entrepreneur.

And I'm definitely still trying to do that.

But that said, I think I just have like a lot more of a reality check of just like, there's pretty much nothing I can do to really maximize productivity for that fourth trimester.

You're just going to be a little bit of a zombie, Serena.

And you just have to recognize that.

Planning to actually take eight weeks off of work, which I didn't do my first pregnancy.

So yeah, I feel nervous about that.

But I also feel like it felt like optional.

My first pregnancy, I was like, Oh, like, do we really need to take time off? And now I'm like, yeah, you really, you really do.

Um, but I also was putting a lot of energy into running my first pregnancy just because running was helping me feel like more like myself.

Um, and so this pregnancy, I've really just been surrendering.

I was working with a PT, um, these last few months kind of problem solving that really severe SI joint pain.

This physical therapist, it's PT Toro in, oh my God, where in New Jersey? I can't remember.

I haven't driven there in a few weeks, but it's in like Jersey, very close to Philly.

It's like a half hour drive.

And John Ionelli is his name and just like shout out to him.

He really knows what he's doing and like really helped me and Just from working with him, I think I went to like four or five sessions, just he really taught me how to engage my body and warm up my body before running.

And I think the biggest thing I really learned was just I was really hurting myself when I was squatting, like lifting, I think was my biggest trigger for this SI joint pain because I was lifting like totally wrong.

I just was really collapsing in my back.