You have finally reached the third trimester of pregnancy, 180 days since that little sperm found the right path. Behind you have been vomiting for months, bad being continuous, deprivation and much more. But here you are, six months later with your little boy giving kicks, knowing a few medical terms that you didn't even know existed a few months ago and giving advice to those that are still starting.
But, in spite of all the above symptoms this seems not to improve and you think: We reach the third quarter, but this is never going to end?
At this point you are very clear that you have already won the best pregnant trophy, you have vomited in places and postures that your partner is not even able to imagine in dreams, they have made you dizzy and there are still two dozen foods that make you nauseous just by thinking about them and you have had to give up half of your favorite dishes .
You have visited the doctor more times in these six months than in your entire life, which has given you a background in terms of gynecological terms that make you want to change jobs and set up your own clinic. You are an expert in pregnancy, and it is just at that moment when everything goes around and nothing you have learned seems to make sense anymore.
Welcome to the third quarter
One day you get up and see that cute little belly is mutating and you don't know if you have a child inside or the Betis kit, the days go by and as she grows your vision of the parts of the body below your belly button disappears and it will take a few months until you can see, without the need for a mirror, if you wear the same pair of sneakers or even if you go road.
Hair removal We have banished her from the topics of conversation and those who are your family and friends know that it is not a good idea to talk about hairs in your presence.
You have had to learn to walk again and to restructure some spaces at home to be able to safely pass things down. Nor do you worry where the food will end when it falls on the way to your mouth, because you know where it will go.
Your belly button has passed a size in accordance with the rest of the gut that surrounded him to stretch so much that it threatens to disappear and you have come to think if that was well sealed in your childhood.
Your body to expand also brings some advantage
At least now there is no doubt that you are pregnant and people don't look at you anymore, weighing the consequences of messing up. Now that your newly released quarter makes you more visible to others, you can take advantage of it to obtain certain advantages, (which in the end really are not, but you will hear it more than once and twice, especially those who believe that in In the 21st century, they still believe that pregnancy is an exclusive problem for women). But all these new joys are going to fade as the quarter progresses.
If this last quarter catches you in winter you will be the envy of the neighborhood or the office when you go out with a jacket, that some advantage would have to have a hot water bag on you 24 hours a day. Of course, if you have been caught in summer you can console yourself that you have probably cheered up the summer at the beach or pool bar. The solution, give birth.
Your breasts, if they have not done so, will still increase in size so that you could go perfectly through an extra of a period movie.
The nights will get longer and longer
It is an effect of this last quarter whereby the days get longer and the nights are eternal. The baby has gone from being there, almost without noticing (if not for nausea, of course) to be one more organ of your body and I would say more, it will become the second most noticeable organ in your body Of course, always behind your bladder (yes, it doesn't matter what you have been told or read; The bladder in the last trimester of pregnancy is reduced to the size of a shot glass).
As I said, every day that passes, the baby will be done with more and more space, causing the most varied and symptoms, some of which could be worthy special effects of the Alien saga. Therefore, finding a posture in which there is nothing that hurts you (eye that I am not saying that you have found a comfortable posture, by now you will be satisfied that there is simply nothing that is swinging in your ribs) is going to Become the main goal of many days.
And after a good while looking for the right posture, placing pillows, cushions, stuffed animals and other tricks that you have been collecting over the past six or seven months you find that posture that you have been looking for so much, just ten seconds before your bladder warn that it is about to overflow. The solution, give birth.
After so much hardship to sleep one could think of using those sleepless nights to practice certain activities of "elderly", after all why not take advantage of the situation (because surely you are not caught again in one of these ). The problem is that you are so tired that you can hardly think about giving another use to the bed, your stomach is so messy that thinking about movement now makes you worse and the libido, seeing the panorama, has decided to take a vacation.
It is true, people say and write many things about the third trimester that do not usually help to cope with these mood swings, pains and the constant urge to urinate, eat and sleep. But all this has one more good thing and that is that now you will see the moment of childbirth as the end of the adventure rather than as a gore scene of a B series movie.
It is possible that you suffer all the previous symptoms or that in the end everything is much milder and allows you to enjoy that last stage of pregnancy that marks the beginning of motherhood. Be that as it may, live the moment because surely in a few years you will remember, more or less, with love (more or less) and that every day that passes brings you closer when you meet your baby.
