blueberry update - week 16

Hmmm... wrote this last week, since right now I'm actually in week #17. I am busy. Oh well.

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Moving along here, and feeling quite good - which I know might be super annoying to hear to some women, especially those who truly suffer throughout their pregnancies. My butt's hurting a little bit - some weird thing having to do with my shifting hips or something - but for the most part I have nothing to complain about.

This past week I went to my first prenatal yoga class at Blooma. My friend Megan has some many classes there - throughout her second pregnancy, and then again post-natal with her two kiddos. It's not cheap, but after I got my hair cut yesterday I realized that I was spending the same amount to get my HAIR CUT - HAIR - THAT JUST GROWS OUT AGAIN SO YOU HAVE TO GO AND GET IT CUT - AGAIN!!! - as I spend on going to yoga TEN TIMES. So, when you look at it that way, it's a dealio. Or, getting my hair cut by a professional is ridiculously expensive. Uh, Yeah.

The truth is, I was kind of nervous about the whole yoga thing... There was a time when I was totally into yoga. You could say it totally changed my body in three months, but that would be really depressing because I never quite got into it like that again, and it makes it sound so easy for me to have revolutionized my body over the past few years when, in fact, I DID NOT... but anyway... I was nervous because when you're doing yoga, depending on the place, it can be sometimes very personal, and you never know what kind of community you're walking into. But I realized very quickly that there was nothing to be nervous about.

It was quite peaceful and wonderful and I was sore for a few days, which always feels great. And, my friends, I think it's got me thinking of ditching the whole edidural this third time around and seeing if I've got it in me to do it naturally. Don't go pressuring me one way or the other yet, because my standard line (which I think is wise and true) is "I'll do whatever I need to do, and you never know what the experience will be like." Which is true. But this is the third time. I have an IDEA of what it will be like. A pretty damn clear picture, actually, and it both scares the bajeezus out of me and has me intent upon doing it differently.

We'll see. More on that later.