36 weeks - 3 weeks to go!

36 weeks today and I would like to know who came by my house yesterday and sledgehammered my pelvis. Holy crap, that's how it feels. Yesterday when it hurt to walk, stand, sit, lay, anything - I thought well, maybe I'm constipated and it's making things hurt. No, that is not the issue. I've just hit the really uncomfortable part of pregnancy. Ouch!

For those that haven't been through the last month of pregnancy, I'll try to describe it to the best of my abilities. Picture your pelvic bones (that pelvic girdle if you will.) Now pretend that I just stuck a heavy bowling ball right on top of it. Gravity is pulling the bowling ball down but it just won't fit. So your bones start spreading out ever so slowly, which leads the ball to drop a little more, which makes your bones spread out a little more, etc, etc. When I move, I swear that bowling ball is going to come crashing out and when I don't move it's just a perpetual, strong, ache as the bowling ball keeps on spreading those bones out.

So yep, that's pretty much how it feels. So picture my expression last night when I painfully hobbled to the bathroom, painfully sat down on the toilet to pee, painfully peed (holding onto the counter to angle myself in the least painful position possible), painfully hobbled back to the living room, painfully sat down on the loveseat - only to have DH ask "Hun, will you make me some popcorn?" The man is lucky I love him because my initial thought was "Are you fucking kidding me?" followed by "You couldn't have asked me this BEFORE I painfully sat down?" followed by "Pop your own damn popcorn!" Instead I just said "You're lucky I love you" and proceeded to painfully get up, painfully walk to the cupboard and painfully stand in the kitchen for 3 minutes while his popcorn popped. I did however take the opportunity to shoot him evil looks at every possible opportunity during this process. It's unfortunate that I can't make him experience this pain, just for 5 minutes so he knows I'm not just some wuss crying over a papercut. Oh DH, I do love you despite your untimely request for popcorn. :-)

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. I'm going to meet up with another preggo Army wife in the morning to go lap swimming on base. That should help my painful pelvis for a little while and loosen up these joints. Mind you, my idea of lap swimming these days will be a gentle breaststroke or hell, just backfloat down the lane but I can't wait! This swimming plan brought momentary panic as I wondered if I would even fit in any of my bathing suits. Good news is I fit into both suits and I decided I may as well take my 36 week bump shot in them. So here goes, two 36 week shots in my bathing suits. Don't laugh too hard, ok?