Pregnancy is H A R D for me. The past couple of weeks I have been reminding myself how strong I am: mentally, emotionally, and physically. I see some friends of mine just breeze through pregnancy so easily and I am just not one of those people. It’s easy for me to be resentful, but I try to turn those feelings into being proud of how hard I work for my babies – after all, pregnancy is the first chance I get to truly mother my babies! At 22 weeks pregnant, I know I’ve got a ways to go – but being past halfway is helpful!
Feeling
Anxiety has been creeping in lately…it hit me recently that my mom and sisters probably won’t be able to be there for the delivery. That was one of my favorite memories about Fitz’s birth and it makes me sad that we are in a different time now. I had also been visualizing Fitz meeting his new little sibling for the first time in the hospital. Well, that probably won’t get to happen either! A recent new mama friend of mine just told me to allow myself time to grieve these changes before accepting it. That really validated some of my feelings. I’m also putting things into perspective: All we want is a happy and healthy baby to take home!
Preparing
I’ve found a couple more things for the baby…I’m kind of slowly and steadily collecting things for the nursery. I’m beginning to look into cribs because we will be ready to buy one in a couple of weeks. I’m really excited about this personalized baby girl book I found from Etsy below. I won’t share with you the name we put on it just yet though-below is just the sample name! Fitz loves looking at his baby book and I realized that I had one so soon with him and I’m already behind with baby girl! Already being so typical with the second baby :).
Read my past pregnancy updates! 19 weeks and 20 weeks.
If you’re pregnant too, I’d love to hear how your pregnancy is going!
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