Pregnancy Week 36: Baby Is Head Down! + The Emotions of Becoming a Mom of Two

Welcome to week 36 of pregnancy.

I'm actually recording this on the first day of week 37, so I've kind of entered 37, but reflecting on this week of 36 and I am very excited to continue to report that I am feeling well.

I am in continued shock.

I know we talked last week a lot about how I think going into This final stretch of pregnancy prioritizing rest and restoring my nervous system has made a really big difference in how I've been feeling.

However, it is still just kind of shocking to look at how massive my belly is.

And let me just be super frank with you.

There is a lot of uncomfortable stuff happening.

There is constant lightning crotch.

There are tons of Braxton Hicks contractions.

But I think just for me, because those aches and pains are kind of fleeting, they come and go compared to the constant exhaustion and nausea and like food averse feeling that I had for so much of pregnancy.

I'm super okay with having these moments of lightning crotch and Braxton Hicks.

I sound kind of crazy because the pain is real.

I think if you have not had the pleasure of experiencing Braxton Hicks or lightning crotch yet, you will appreciate the sentiment of how crazy I sound once you get to have that experience, if you get to have that experience.

But I am just so happy to not be like a zombie, to not be exhausted, to not be nauseous and grossed out by food.

You know, food has been feeling really yummy and satisfying.

I also think like, and this is a little bit correlated to what my midwife told me, but the baby's growth slows down at around week 36.

And so I didn't feel quite so hungry.

And I think that in combination with the fact that like mileage for week 36 was at seven and a half miles.

So I had planned on trying to get to 10 and then I had run two days, got to seven and a half miles.

And I was planning to do a third day to kind of hit that 10 mile week.

And I just felt really low energy on Saturday.

That was the day I was going to do it.

And I decided to just not run.

And I thought that was like a really big personal win for me because I definitely think in the past, the vanity metric of hitting the double digits would have outweighed my desire to kind of honor my body and what my body needed from me.

And I, you know, I really, I really honored my body.