At 28 weeks pregnant I'm beginning to get anxious/crazy-excited about Case's arrival and I'm feeling like it's a little premature to be feeling this way already. We can all do the math, right? I've got more than a few weeks left in this pregnancy! So as I sat down to think about why, exactly, I'm so excited/anxious I realized there were a few very probable causes.
They are:
1. The Holidays are near and it seems like every year they come more quickly. Knowing that all we have to get through is Thanksgiving and Christmas (New Years & Brian's birthday too!) makes his birth seem much closer somehow.
2. I'm sleep deprived and during the hours of 2-5 am, when I'm up, I do quite a bit of thinking about this little baby boy wriggling around in my uterus. All the thinking of him leads to freakishly vivid/very real dreams about him (which I've read is completely normal) and before you know it's all I can think about! When you think about something constantly it's only natural to become a bit anxious, agreed?
3. The birthing classes are scheduled, which, for some reason makes this all the more real to me. Knowing that in January, twice a week for two hours I'll be at Womack learning how to push this baby out makes his arrival seem like it's around the corner. That, and since there were no holidays to look forward to in January (well, besides Erin & Kurt's birthdays and MLK Jr. Day) the classes give me something to look forward to finishing! Not only that, but Brian will be able to come to half the classes, which, I think he's actually looking forward to!
So even though I've got this last trimester to get through, Case is coming and he'll be here before we know it (well, I'll definitely know it, but you get the idea...).
