35 Weeks! :)

Five more weeks to go!! I'm feeling very pregnant....rapidly growing body fat....everywhere, shortness of breath, can't move around nearly as well as usual, hard to get up, hard to sit down, not sleeping, peeing a lot, wanting ice cream every night, getting winded...from WALKING! ...getting kicked and punched and stretched from the inside out, swollen feet and fingers, having a hiccuping belly, constant back pain, and everything else that I can't think of at the moment. It all just makes me look forward to having this baby!!! Though...good things come to those who wait, right?!

So, Patrick and I attended a birthing class (one of five two hour classes). It was...comical....to say the least. We were there for about 20 minutes, and Patrick turned to me and said, "This is like straight out of Saturday Night Live!" We were breathing, practicing comfortable positions in which to have a contraction, HAVING FAKE CONTRACTIONS, "hee-hee-who" ing, making low level moaning sounds to "relax" the body (at least we were supposed to be moaning...Patrick and I couldn't do it, we couldn't stop giggling)...the whole nine yards! I mean, it was hard to keep a straight face. Good thing we didn't know anyone else in the class, because, had we made eye contact with anyone, we would have been a disaster! The instructor even had Patrick having contractions and me massaging him!!! (The purpose of this, of course, was to let Patrick know how I would want to be massaged during a contraction...well, we all know how much attention Patrick was paying to that! He wasn't doing the proper breathing...he was supposed to be deep breathing...and was flipping through the little booklet they gave us)! I couldn't blame him though! Even I was a little confused as to why Patrick was having a contraction! Everyone even had their pillows with them...except us, of course, since we missed the memo on that one! When we left, Patrick pleaded (and I mean pleaded) with me to not make him go back there. He said, "Please don't make me go back there. I'll read this whole book; I'll highlight it! Just please don't make me go back!" What can I say after a plea like that?! We paid $50 and only went to one class. He said he'd pay $50 more to not have to go back. So, I'm not sure what we'll do...but it was definitely an....experience! :) I'll keep you posted...