6 Months

The time is flying by and dragging along, all at once. On the one hand I can't wait to see your little face and introduce you to this world (and, I'm not gonna lie, I cannot wait to have my body all to myself again), but on the other hand there is so much to do, and so much to figure out, and so many naps I need to have that it's okay with me that you still have a little while left to bake.

These days, you are not the ideal roommate. In fact, once your lease is up in June I don't think I'll be renewing it. You and I are having a hard time figuring out how to both fit in my body. You seem to be struggling to find space, and prefer to hunker right up against my diaphragm.  This means that I spend a lot of time trying to get full breaths of air, which means that I have to yawn a lot, and sometimes hyperventilate until I almost die.

You are also making it pretty difficult for me to get a good night's rest, as I have to flip over about every 30 minutes to keep from breaking my hips. Hip pain has been a bit of an issue with you, in addition to quite a bit of round ligament pain.

This is not to say that I am oblivious to your own discomfort however. I'm pretty sure you get squished quite a bit, because you tell me to back up off every chance you get. Whenever I cross my legs and lean over my desk, you get really claustrophobic and kick me as hard as you can until I shift positions. And you really don't like it when I inadvertently stretch a certain way when lying in bed, because you kick me in the same place each time to tell me to knock it off and let you sleep. The last time you did this I thought it was your dad poking me and I told him to stop. It turns out though that was all you and your dad felt unjustly accused. I think you're kind of opinionated or something.

Anyway, things are still going swimmingly despite our occasional turf wars. This month we will sign up for a birthing class and will continue to try and figure out where we'll live this summer before and after you're born. Knowing that we're going to move in a couple of months has been difficult for me, because I would love nothing more than to start setting up a nursery for you. But at this point it's not worth doing all of that since we'll likely have to move everything not once but twice before you even get here. So instead we've been trying to just watch a lot of grown up movies while we still can.