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All the belly rubs, unsolicited advice, and well-wishes are usually meant with good intentions. It’s beyond me why people find it appropriate to say things like this, but they do, and they usually mean well.
DAYS LEFT IN PREGNANCY PLUS
I’m 5’2, plus I’m short-waisted: I go nowhere but out when I’m pregnant. “Are you sure you’re not due today?” - I hear that from total strangers at least daily right now. People also love commenting on how huge you are. There’s no way to enjoy sleep if you’re not getting any anyway. Your body aches, heartburn is horrific, and you can’t seem to escape the heat. You know the common advice given right now, by everyone from your mother to a total stranger: “Enjoy sleeping now because you won’t for a long time once the baby’s here.” Anyone who’s been pregnant in the past five years knows this is a moot suggestion because you haven’t been sleeping for at least six weeks.
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Here are my tips for making the most of the time before your newborn enters the world. If you’re also pregnant right now, be it with your fifth or your first, handling these last few weeks can be no picnic. I’ve been busy getting ready for number three to join our family. Yep, I’m in that very last stage of pregnancy, when there’s not much you can do other than watch your body swell to unbelievable proportions and reminisce of the days when you could get up without grunting. I’ll admit - I remember exactly zero of this advice. …And personally, I love how it serendipitously dovetails with this month’s letter to myself ten years ago, completely unplanned. It’s been wild for me to see what ideas seemed to resonate most deeply with readers over the past 12 years! Starting here, January 2020 - here’s the 12th most popular post on AoS, first published June 7, 2010. Measured in simple traffic numbers, these are the posts that brought people to this website more than any other. To add a bit of nostalgia during this final year of AoS, we thought it’d be fun to countdown with the top 12 published posts of all time.