2. During the summer I was working 1-2 days a week when I was needed at the hospital. School has since started so now I'm just working at Mohave Community College. I have a contract to work part time (20 hours a week) in the nursing lab teaching the students new skills before they practice them on real people. What's nice is that I am working full time hours until October 29th, then will have the rest of the semester off with pay. Then in January I will just work 20 hours a week. I have been working 4 days a week, 10 hours each day plus 1.5 hours of driving each day. So it's been a lot of hours and hard on my preggo body. But I will be cutting back to 3 days a week until the end of October.
I just realized the other day that I get paid less for this job compared to teaching in the classroom- but that makes sense because this job only requires an associates degree and the other job required at least a Master's degree. So they are basing the pay on degree, but also stress level. The other job was sooo stressful and it felt like a 24/7 job because it kind of was. Even though another $80 a month would be nice, it's not worth the stress.
It's always fun working with the students. It's fun to see the students I taught in the classroom last year and to have new students. It's a little weird because one of the girls in the class made our wedding cake (but I really didn't know her at the time) and another girl is the sister of a guy I kind of dated a while ago. But they are a lot of fun and make my job much easier.
3. Pregnancy update:
I'm getting bigger everyday. Brynlee moves around and I feel her kicking, but it's just when I'm sitting and doesn't do it for very long. I'm hoping that means that she will be a very calm, relaxed baby????????? One evening she was kicking a lot so I had John put his hand on my belly to feel it too. She kicked/punched his hand hard and kind of freaked him out. I enjoyed it though! As for how I feel- that's not a good question. I could complain for a while, but will try to keep it to a minimum. I'm pretty sure that since I was lucky in early pregnancy to not be really sick, there was some point of misery that had to come right? First of all- my back kills me. I have mild scoliosis and with extra weight it's basically twisting everything in my back. I have gone to physical therapy before for this problem and it worked perfectly so I wanted to try it again. Unfortunately I waited too long (it's been hurting since early July) and it was already to the point of being excruciating at times and me not being able to function for the second half of the day. It got worse after school started and I was spending so much time sitting preparing lessons, etc. To make a long story short- it's still very painful and some days I will do anything to get it to stop hurting. But I'm hoping it will get better soon.
My right ankle swells a lot more than the left, which I find to be very weird. It was throbbing and hard to elevate when I can't lay on my back, but when I wear TED hose/compression socks it lessens the problem greatly.
The acid reflux started a few weeks ago. It doesn't hurt, but randomly will feel like I'm going to puke. And you know the "I just puked in my mouth a little bit" joke? That's happened a lot too.
Now for the best part- I failed the first glucose test so had to go back to the lab for a second test. This test required me to stay in the lab for 3 hours and have my blood drawn 4 times. It wasn't so bad except for it took them 6 tries to get 4 tubes of blood- so my arms are kind of a mess. I'm hoping that I do not have gestational diabetes and it was all a fluke.
I have to remind myself frequently that I am lucky I don't have worse problems and am not on bedrest or have a baby in the NICU already. Once I remember that my aches and pains don't seem so bad....
Enough with the complaining already. I really love looking pregnant, just not feeling physically pregnant. Besides the fact that I am physically ready to be done with this pregnancy, I feel mentally and emotionally ready to have this baby also. (Yes, I still have 8 weeks left). Of course I don't think I know everything, but am pretty confident that my instincts will kick in, but if not I have tons of friends and family I can ask anything. We have the necessities for the baby already, and will have a baby shower with my friends this Saturday and a family shower in the next couple of weeks. We really are so blessed to be able to have a child and have such awesome family and friends close by. Come faster November 11th!!
Approximately 30 weeks
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