Can I Be Unpregnant Now?

There are days now that I wish that this pregnancy would hurry up and come to a close. The last couple of months have been a roller coaster of not just emotions and hormones...but morning sickness-coupled with allergies, a lingering sinus infection and migraines. I usually wake up between 2 and 4am to use the restroom and then I have a difficult time getting back to sleep. My alarm goes off at 6:30am to get the kids ready for school, and it is often likely that I haven't even been back to sleep for 30-45 minutes when it goes off.

Once they are off to the wonderful world of learning, I am either dragging myself to school or back to the house to go back to bed. This makes for tiring days, especially on the ones where I have my work class. I usually am physically spent by 2pm most days and am struggling to manage my homework and my housework.

I know it sounds as though I am complaining, but really I am just telling it like it is. Honestly, the part that keeps me remembering that all of this is only temporary is what helps me get through each day. There are now only 21 more weeks, give or take a few days, until I get to meet this little person who has taken over my body. It is funny how we women tend to forget what each pregnancy was really like, until we do it again. Then the memories of throwing up at 2am and needing to sleep all the time come flooding back. The question I ask now is: Can I please be unpregnant now? Yeah, I know that isn't gonna happen for a while...but at least I can dream about the days to come. I know that labor really starts at the moment of conception. This whole business of growing a human being is hard work and it is only rewarded when those baby-bird eyes are looking up at me telling me that I did good and that now baby is hungry!