3rd Trimester: Last of my 30s

This is it! 30 weeks gestation is now at an end! This final day in my 30s I chose to spend with friends, Camilla and Rhiannon, trying on dresses, getting measured, playing with cats and children, and celebrating it all in an outrageous wrist-to-knees floral ensemble…and why not?!

Last day of 30 weeks gestation carting about Seahorse

Last day of 30 weeks gestation carting about Seahorse

Today marks the tail end of my seventh month in gestation-mode. Physically, I am brimful of energy (mornings) then fall into a heap (evenings) with pain that radiates from varying sides of my back and into my ribcage; aches that are subdued only with the hot water of a bath. All along the sides of my protuberance is a creaking, stretching soreness which becomes bearable when buoyed in water. Daily, friends find me poolside and it is when slipping along the water that relief finally comes.

Since I grow so large, only a couple of occupations bring me comfort these days: swimming and the wearing of shocking maternity apparel. It seems only the hugely pregnant can get away with brightly patterned botanically-themed ensembles. Me for one. Why the evil not?! Say sayonara to the 30’s Alice!!

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Last day of 30 weeks gestation carting about Seahorse

 

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