Yesterday was another quiet day for little Kate, and they tend to make me a tad nervous. Not a lot nervous, since she’s still moving, she’s still obviously alive in there. But normally she is a crazy mover and shaker, and when she is just kicking here and there, wiggling around only a little bit, I can’t help but worry that there’s some reason that she’s quieter. I remind myself that this does seem to be her pattern – a few days of high activity, then a couple days of quiet movement. I just get the feeling that she sleeps a lot on those days. I can get her to kick me when I poke her, but she snuggles back in and falls asleep again. (I wonder if babies do that after they get out, too… have sleep days and active days.)

I was frustrated doing kick counts last night because she was apparently trying to nap again, even though she had just been active while I ate dinner. I wanted to go to sleep, but I really couldn’t until she convinced me she was just sleepy, and not in distress. Den finally ended up leaning over my belly, nose close enough to touch, and said, “Missy, stop scaring your mother. Don’t make me scold you for the first time!” I couldn’t help but laugh. She did end up waking up enough to reassure me (and then of course woke up even more when I went to bed).

As expected (well… hoped for), today she is wide awake and active as hell. (And then a tiny part of me worries that she’s too active. Yes, I realize that there is no getting around the worrying – it’s just going to stick with me!)

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I’m not really getting more uncomfortable yet, with the exception of her feet getting closer and closer to (and further up into) my ribs. Today she’s been happy about kicking me up there, so it’s kind of hard to sit and, well… sit. Even reaching for the volume in the car can cause a grunt, because she gets squished and frequently whacks me for my nerve.

But the rest of me… well, the rest of me is doing just fine. My lower back is feeling loose. It gets compressed when I sit and tends to pop and shift when I stand up and walk around – it actually feels good to feel it pop and shake itself out. My wrists haven’t gotten any worse with the carpal tunnel thing – actually, I think it’s gotten better than I was feeling a couple months ago. My pelvis feels fine, no cramping, no aching. Of course she feels heavy in there and, depending on her position, I feel like I have to pee a million times. Some days the ligaments along the sides of my belly feel a bit stretched, but very rarely do I feel any sharp twinges like earlier in pregnancy when things were growing up out of my uterus.

My hips are not happy with still sleeping on the futon, but at the same time I realize it could be a lot worse. I’m still able to shift my position around to keep most of my weight off my actual hip joint (though there are some days I must roll onto it while I sleep). It’s not the most comfortable, but it’s certainly not bad. And hopefully tomorrow night we’ll have our bed moved back in to our bedroom! (We both are very excited about that one.)

I do need to start getting more sleep, though.