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pregnancy
Pregnancy Right Now: 37 Weeks + Pictures!
So we arrived. To full-term, to the point where if I go into labor right. this. second. we can attempt birth at the birth center (always as long as nothing changes or goes wrong) and no one will lose their minds. Except me, who is always losing her mind. Hence the ironic picture. 
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For Posterity's Sake
Family, in Pictures
On Saturday two of my best friends threw me a baby shower (it feels selfish to say that like...they threw the baby a shower and I'm just her representative) and it was lovely and wonderful and I'm going to tell you all about it. The party was in our neighborhood, so before we headed over my sisters and mom came over to take some pictures because 1. we didn't at the beach this year, 2. we were all showered and looked pretty good and 3. we won't all be together at Thanksgiving, which is when we usually have this ritual of kind of fighting about pictures but then being really happy we took some. 
It's always kind of a process.
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Pregnancy Right Now - Week 35
We have arrived at the total downhill mark of things. After 30 weeks it felt kind of like an uphill battle to get to 35 without being so terribly all the time impatient, but NOW. Now we can say that, if full-term ends up being a thing, we will have our baby in 2 to 7 weeks (I'll be induced on day 1 of week 42 if homegirl doesn't make an appearance before then). A 5 week window of health is wide for those of us who like to plan, but so be it. Two more weeks, and then we just...wait. Do normal things, work, practice car seat stuff, have Thanksgiving, and wait. 
I'm a little bit impatient.
Physically, I'm gradually slowing down. I've gotten progressively achier and more tired, and have had a glorious cold to make everything extra special in the meantime. I'm down to 3 yoga classes a week, and in a few weeks I won't be teaching at all, which is so weird. Yoga is more and more uncomfortable unless I'm doing prenatal yoga, so it's definitely time to let it go. The belly is just...there, you know? Folds or anything involving legs near shoulders just don't work the way they used to, but I'm proud of the fact that I made it this long teaching a pretty rigorous schedule.
The pain I'm in comes almost exclusively from my ligaments under my belly, which just get TIRED after too much walking or standing. I've also started to have some awful sciatic pain in my right hip that gets to me after too many hours of sitting down. If I stand for too long my ligaments hurt, if I sit for too long my right hip bone feels like it's going to snap in half. That particular pain is the absolute worst, take-your-breath-away kind of thing. I can avoid it if I make sure to get up and down throughout the day, but once I've been sitting for too long and it sets in there is no fixing it until I either can be nearly totally reclined on a couch or in bed, which is super not cool when it hits about 2 hours before work is over and then I have to drive home. Driving with that pain is my least favorite thing so far about pregnancy. ...