25 Week Mark

Happy June All! This is going to be one crazy month. Last month was awful. I spent the week before and all of Memorial Day weekend sick. Not just the typical cold- I'm pretty sure within 5 days I went from chest cold, to fever, to sinus cold, back to chest cold. Usually when I'm sick, I can still get up and work out-maybe not to the intensity I usually do, but generally I can do some sort of movement. Not this time. My body ached, I had zero energy, and I took lots of naps, which, if you have lived with me, you'd know naps are not something that come easily to me. From Wednesday to Tuesday I took time off of my exercise, and when I finally got back into it, it did not come easily. In fact, nearly a week later, I can still feel my body trying to recover doing daily activities. 

When it comes to meds, there really isn't much out there. I found out I can take basic Robitussin (after I started feeling better), Benadryl which helped me sleep at night, and for the first time, tried a Neti pot, which was super weird, but it cleared my sinuses fairly well. 

I have also been suffering from right butt cheek pain. I took the problem to Facebook and it appears that I have a pinched Sciatic nerve-common with pregnancy. It sucks! It hurts when I work out (which is basically always), when I lay down, when I sit, when I walk, and it even enters into spasm mode just from breathing. So irritating! I've been stretching, massaging it, and tonight I'm putting a heating pad on it to see if it will ease any of the pain. This has been going on for two weeks now. It's not comfortable. 

Getting ready for bed. 

So about this baby boy that's growing in me. ALL. HE. DOES. IS. KICK. Boy oh boy it's never ending! I had been sleeping through the night until I got sick a few weeks ago, and (despite the Benadryl) I'd constantly wake up. Every time I wake to change positions, he's kicking! I have woken up every hour between 9 and 6 a few of those nights and what do ya know? There he is kicking. I have a feeling it's going to get rough in my last month when he has less space in there! Do I even have to share that he's kicking as I write this? Cause he is. 

I must admit, I was grateful to have him kick while I was sick. I could barely eat for three days, and when I did, things didn't really settle well. I basically lived off of gatorade and milkshakes while sick, so feeling him kick gave me comfort knowing at least he still had some energy. I could tell though that he was feeling as drained as I was. His kicks were not nearly as strong nor lasted as long as they usually do. I'm very glad that I'm feeling better and able to nourish him properly now. 

Okay, so we get the point that I've been sick and miserable. On a higher note, we have lots to look forward to this month. This week and next week, we will be in the process of moving to a new house on base which means everything will be so much closer. It won't take me 15 minutes just to get to the nearest.. anything. We'll have a grocery store right down the street, and the hospital won't be 30 minutes away. I'm pumped!!! I've been wanting to move for so long and I'm even more excited to start working on a nursery next weekend :) Plus, we'll be saving money which we can use towards stuff that I know we'll need once baby gets here. 

I also have the color run at the end of the month. Another 5K to prepare my body for :) I really wanted to run this last summer and couldn't, so I am not letting anything stop me this year. I'm feeling great and hanging in there as I approach the third trimester in a few more weeks.