I Can’t Move
Ok so my toes don't look nearly this nice, but I'm too embarrassed to show you my toes!!
As a young girl, I remember stuffing a basketball under my shirt and walking around pretending to be pregnant. It was always fun to pretend, but looking back all I ever did was walk around the basketball goal; I never actually tried to do anything else. I never thought about how hard it would be to do pretty much everything with this “basketball” under my shirt.
Yesterday, I thought that I would be good to myself (while not spending money) and give myself a pedicure. Ha! I started out in the bathtub trying my hardest to reach my feet to give them a good scrub, then after a good five minutes of positioning myself just right so that I could actually get out of the tub, the real fun began. I just needed to take the polish off, trim my nails, and polish them. Mind you, I just did this a couple of weeks ago and while it was a struggle, it was not nearly as complicated as this experience. As soon as I started to take off the polish, I realized I was going to have to pull out some yoga moves to make it work. After about thirty minutes of twisting and squirming into different positions to make it happen, I was finished. I have a feeling that the polish doesn’t look that great, but I can’t get close enough to see, so I’m really not that concerned. Maybe the unsightly polish will take some of the focus off of my swollen ankles and toes.
This is just one example of the things that are nearly impossible to do with this extra large tummy that is permanently attached (well for the next few weeks anyway). Not to mention the (formerly) easy things day to day things like getting out of bed, putting on socks, getting in and out of the car, etc.
I am not quite ready for the baby to be here, but I am so ready to be able to easily shave my legs again!
What is the hardest thing for you to do with the “baby bump” (or mound as I like to call it)?
One of the worst things for me was making beds with all the leaning over and lifting. I couldn’t change all the beds at once – I had to take rests as I went. It’s so much easier to do, though, once the baby is born!