As I ask with reservation...

[MistyB]

Anyone else still feeling great? (ok...stick me with a fork if ya want!)

I am 29 weeks and feel wonderful, no aches or pains or anything negative associated with pregnancy (would be constipated if I didn't manage it daily). I have been walking for 30 minutes every day (feel ache free at the end of the walk), doing my daily hypbirth practice and other meditation, sleeping VERY well at night and am still not wishing for it to all be done. I am really enjoying this pregnancy.

Maybe I will be singing a different tune in 4 weeks?? ; )

[xmasbaby7]

For the most part, me too!

I was at the grocery store this week in the frozen food section and the store was playing this amazing retro 80's alternative CD. This Cure song came on that I haven't heard since highschool, and I became overwhelmed with this feeling of happiness. Here I was buying food for me, my baby, and my amazing DH...so far from those downer Cure days in high school!!

I wanted to push the cart forward with all of my might and start dancing down the ice cream aisle. :bouncy

I came home and told DH I had been injected with happy juice. Not a phrase he has ever heard from me before, I assure you. The next day I read in Dr. Sears book the 7th month chapter "What you should be feeling" The first paragraph...euphoria! He says it goes away by the 8th month and told us to enjoy it! :irked:

[juliasmum]

With my first pregnancy the euphoria was definitely there. I felt high for all of my second trimester and most of my third.

This time I am still feeling pretty good. I think I am a little more stressed because I know how little time I will have to get things done after the baby gets here, so I'm doing mega projects now. I have a ton of energy during the day but tend to crash at night. Hopefully I can get done what I need to and spend the last weeks just knitting and playing with dd. But so far no physical complaints and I'm still sleeping well.

The only complaint I have is the peeing. I had to pee twice tonight while at the grocery store!

[Taedareth]

I feel great, too. The only complaints I can think of are uncomfortable stretching sensations in my round ligaments and getting up 2 or 3 times a night to pee. But that's no big deal. I'll be 27 weeks as of tomorrow.

[mykidsrock]

This is the first pgcy that I am truly enjoying!! :throb

[witchbaby]

i feel awesome, too! i'm 26 weeks tomorrow. i'm HUGE, but feel really good about everything-- except that q has learned how to kick and punch hard enough to HURT! :bouncy

[birthjunkie27]

Not to be the downer here but........where's the fork? :irked:

Seriously though, that's great that you're all feeling well, great. Wish I could say the same.

[Spark]

I'm 28 weeks. So far this has been a more achy pregnancy (and with HG that I'm still dealing with here) than my other ones. I'm getting tired, too. But, I try to keep it in perspective. I still have 12 weeks to go. If i start complaining now... people will be really tired of hearing me whine 12 weeks from now. So, I'm trying to just focus on the positive. I think keeping active really helps. If I lay on the couch I feel SO PREGNANT when I get up. Last night I vegged after the kids went to bed and owwww, when I got up I had to ask my mom to go down in the basement to get my comforter that was in the dryer. I just didn't want to face the stairs just to come back up again. And, :bag: when no one is around I groan and moan at times.

I'm determined to feel "great" as long as I can though. (Truthfully though I'm not always feeling "great"!) I just fake it until I convince myself. :LOL

[IncaMama]

well...i feel emotionally great re: the pregnancy. i'm stressed about my dissertation, etc, but that's different. physically i'm really starting to not feel so great - as i posted about earlier. my pelvic dysfunction is really really really really really really getting bad. i have yet to go to the chiropractor, mostly because i'm a friggin idiot. LOL so i'll be scheduling that soon. i think my back is hurting bc i'm compensating for my pelvis...who knows...other than that, it's all good...i know i'll be feeling a world of pain in about 12 weeks so i'm just happy to be feeling this good. LOL

[ljpmom]

Oh please please please trade bodies with me for just one day and night. This pregnancy is soooo hard :( I woke up last night sobbing, I totally lost it. And if one more person asks me when I am due and than says "Ohhhhhhhh" in bewilderment (sp?) I am going to scream! But today we went and got pregnancy pics taken. It was so much fun and helped me get back in the spirit of things a bit, can't wait to see them!

That is awesome you are feeling so good! Sorry to be such a downer! I am so darn excited about the homebirth and meeting this baby though!

[Viriditas]

First of all, :hug :hug :hug to those of you who aren't feeling great.

Personally, I feel fantastic! No complaints here, physical, emotional, or psychological. But I would gladly take on all the yuckies of some of you other mommies temporarily so you could feel great for a few days too. One thing that goes along with my current jubilation is the desire for everyone else to share it! :love

[MistyB]

Hugs to all of the mamas that are not feeling well. The end is getting so close!! ; )

I am planning a list of things to save for days when I feel less than stellar...

massage
manicure/pedicure
shampoo and blow out with deep DEEP relaxing scalp massage
facial

My IL's (aka my trustworthy babysitters) live right down the road from a beauty school that offers most of these services very cheaply. I plan on partaking as often as I can get in.

I have been crashing at my ILs a lot during the week to be around to see DH when he is off work and then we return home on weekends. It has probably been a lot of what has put me in such a great mindset. I wake up and go for a nice alone walk, have breakfast made for me when I arrive, can take uninterupted showers, have lunch cooked, can do my hypbirth and meditation uninterupted, have dinner cooked...and my son is engaged and entertained 24/7 by some cool project they always have him involved in.

I feel like I have been practically living at a full service hotel...and I like it. :D

[hottmama]

I feel fine, at 26 weeks (tomorrow). I have been sleeping, finally, after some serious insomnia for the past few months, I still have an easy time walking and riding my bike, etc. It still doesn't seem real to me that there'll be a baby in 3 mos... that is, if I survive the semester and don't beat myself to death with my books.

[Turtlemum]

27 weeks and feeling great too! I almost never have to get up to pee at night and have had more energy than I thought I would throughout the enitre pregnancy. I am just now developing a few physical discomforts ie pubic symphysis pulling and some occasional backache. The emotional discomfort is thinking that my pregnancy is going by too fast!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want it to end! Heh, heh, I know I will eventually want it to end but I'm not there yet so I'll just enjoy... :mischief

[amis2girls]

I'm OK, it's these kids of mine that are driving me nuts. :irked:

They were gone for the afternoon and I got a three-hour nap. :thumb

13 more weeks... :)

[allnaturalmama]

28 weeks tomorrow, and I can't believe how easy this pregnancy has been. I do feel for those of you who are miserable, BTDT.

I'm just so grateful to be feeling so good, and will enjoy it every second it lasts.

Off to sew more tiny dipes . . .

[PatchPixie]

I feel really good, too. Just sleeping-in more and definately a bit more emotional & sensitive than usual (cried today b/c DH didn't do his dishes before leaving the house...) - but physically I feel really great. There is a full moon tonight - so I think that explained my earlier psychosis....

[kir]

I was feeling GREAT until about two days ago...then had a really crappy weekend. Which was upsetting, because DH had to suffer through the irritating weekend with me, instead of having some enjoyable time together :( I think i ate something bad on Friday or Saturday, and that made me sick....and then not knowing whether i was sick or having some pre-term-labor kind of problem made me scared....but today i'm feeling better. i just think i need to take it one day at a time, and not freak out all the time.

[kate-astrophe]

It's weird, up until two weeks ago, I was feeling anything but great: mildly depressed, very tired, very achey, just plain gross. I was dreading the 3rd trimeseter. And then something changed and I started to feel good, and now I feel wonderful. I'm 28.5 weeks and this is the best I've felt for the entire pregnancy. Yay!

-Kate

[camprunner]

WIth my first pregnancy I felt best the last month. I think this one may be heading in that direction as well.