Lots of Changes Coming Up
Latest news in my pregnancy is that I have gotten my scheduled C-section date of Sept 15th. My baby daughter will be arriving around 9:15 AM on Sept 15th. Other than that the pregnancy is going well. I’m having more achiness this second time around and for some reason over the past week or so I am getting a lot of middle back pain which I never even had with my first pregnancy. So this second pregnancy has definitely been more challenging than my first starting with the nausea in the beginning which I didn’t have at all with my first pregnancy. And for some reason this time around, this little girl, boy when she pushes and kicks in there sometimes it really hurts! I don’t remember it hurting when I was pregnant with my son. I don’t know why that is, perhaps it has something to do with my whole mid-section support structure not being as strong since I was stretched out once already. Oh and of course trying to bend over at all or get to my feet is VERY uncomfortable and next to impossible! Yeah, I’m at the point now, just past 8 months, that the pregnancy has gotten pretty uncomfortable cause my belly’s so big, or at least it feels like it! I sometimes have trouble getting comfortable at night, can’t bend over hardly at all, can’t twist, like to turn back to look for cars coming when I’m driving, etc.
Anyway, I am still working out. I’m still weight training and doing cardio. Pulldowns for back have become pretty darn uncomfortable because it just pulls too much in my mid-section, I’ve really had to cut the weight there. You just don’t realize how much your core muscles are involved in all your lifts, especially in pulldowns, until your whole mid-section is all stretched out like a rubber band leaving you virtually no strength in your core! I’ve lost 15-20 lbs in my major lifts, 5-10 lbs in other lifts. It’ll take me a while to get my strength back after I have the baby, as it would anyway, but more so for me due to the C-section. For cardio I’m down to mostly using my nordic track because it’s just gotten too hot outside these days to be outside walking or biking. In addition, the biking up and down the hills/mountains around here pregnant AND pulling an extra 55 lbs with my 3 year old son in the trailer just became too taxing. I couldn’t make it up a lot of hills and I was having to catch my breath, (I even fell trying to get off my bike once, I was that exhausted) couldn’t get enough air, etc. So that’s when I decided that unless I could find flat terrain, that the biking had to come to an end. I think I was trying to push myself way too hard especially since I had trouble catching my breath and definitely couldn’t hold any sort of conversation and that started worrying me that the baby might also not be getting enough oxygen. So I stopped. Other than the nordic track for cardio, I skate at the local skating rink when I can, the last two Mondays it’s been too crowded for it to be safe for me. I had to sit out. The DJ said once the kids go back to school it won’t be as crowded, but yeah, there have just been too many little kids and even tho I’m a good skater, it’s the other people and kids who are NOT good skaters that I gotta watch out for and this far along it’s just too much of a risk when it’s crowded like it was last night. It kills me to just sit there and watch my buddies skate but I just have to get over it for the sake of my unborn daughter. Hopefully once the kids go back to school I will have 4 last good Monday skate nights. Phew… with all that said… in addition to a new baby, there are a lot of other changes going on in my life this year…
My husband is retiring from the Air Force in November and is currently looking for his next job. The bad news is that as much as I love this area (of western NC), have lots of friends here, and really wanted for us to settle down here, it looks like we are going to have to move out of state. The good paying jobs are just not here but instead are in Ohio and Illinios. Several of my husband’s previous Air Force co-workers who have retired are now working for a good company up in the Dayton, OH area. It really looks like that’s where we’re going to end up moving, much as it pains me to do so, but, bills have to be paid and food has to be put on the table so what can ya do? So in addition to the big change of hubby retiring and getting a new job for the first time in 20 years, we’re looking at a move as early as November and probably out of state. We just put our house on the market to sell about a week ago and plan on being out and moved into a friend’s house by Sept 1st. We have a good friend who owns a business who is shutting down his business in this area and moving down to SC and he wants to rent his house here out to us. So we are going to do that. We are hoping that our house sells within the next month so that we won’t have to come up with a rent AND a house payment and then when/if we need to move out of state, we will be free from trying to sell a house. Even if by some miracle we CAN stay here, the house we are going to be renting is an upgrade from the place we live in now with more bedrooms and a huge shop for hubby to work on his cars, etc. We would be perfectly happy to just rent to own our friend’s house which he would let us do if we can stay. Regardless, I really want to be OUT of our current house BEFORE our baby daughter arrives because if by chance our house is NOT sold til then, I do NOT want to still be in it with a newborn and a toddler and have to try and cater to people wanting to come in and look at our house. It would be way too much for me to try and take care of a toddler and a newborn, breastfeeding around the clock, PLUS try to keep the house show-ready all while trying to get enough sleep, NO THANKS!! It was hard enough on me the first time around with my son, breastfeeding him around the clock and only getting to nap around the clock and I didn’t even have another child then NOR a house to have show ready and be prepared to cater to people wanting to come in and look at my house. So I made it VERY clear to my husband that we need to be OUT of here, BEFORE the baby comes whether we have to make two payments (rent and house) or not. Hopefully our house will sell before we have to start paying rent otherwise my husband’s never gonna be home (which means zilcho help for me with a newborn and a toddler) because he’ll be working two jobs everyday just so we can pay all the bills. So yeah, lots of changes coming up, it’s probably going to be a tough time for me for a while. And that’s the latest news with me, for anyone interested. I probably won’t post again until we’re moved and settled into wherever we end up, I think there will just be too much going on with having a newborn and moving for me to even think about posting a blog here. Until then, take care everyone and keep training hard!
