WHATTTTTT? One month from my due date! How is that even possible? Baby girl is expected February 10th, so watching January 10th come and go this week was surreal. As much as I'd like for her to get out now, so I can sleep on my stomach, I also know its best for her to stick around in there for a few more weeks and for me to finish these last few projects at work. Physically, I'm feeling pretty rough. Mornings and late evenings are the hardest, and I find I'm in a lot of pain when I wake up especially. Now that the nursery is pretty much done, I'm feeling a lot less pressure to run around like a crazy person after work and am taking advantage of propping my feet up when possible.

I know we all know the normal pregnancy symptoms, but I thought I'd take a minute to laugh about some of the lesser known (and weirder) pregnancy symptoms that have popped up over the last few weeks:

-Skin Tags. I started getting random skin tags all in my pelvic area and even a few on my shoulders/neck/face. They're insanely annoying, but I know they'll be easy to get removed.
-Skin darkening, especially in my armpits. I noticed it first in some of my maternity photos, but now there's no denying it. My skin is way darker in my armpits than it was before.
-Carpal Tunnel. Yes, the hormone that makes your hips loosen for delivery has started taking a toll on other joints in my body, the most painful being my wrists. I wake up several times a night with numb/painful hands.
-(Return of the) Lightning Crotch. Her head/hands are now hitting some nerves in my pelvis that occasionally take my breath away with how painful they are. 
-SUDDEN Weight Gain. All the extra fluid hanging out in my feet and hands has pushed me way above the "recommended weight gain" for my pre-pregnancy weight. I had been consistently under the goal all pregnancy, but as of Thursday night, I very literally gained 7 lbs in a week and a half. I'm trying to take some solace in the fact that this is fluid, not actual weight, and that it will be (hopefully) easy to get off.... but there's a reason very few recent photos of me will be posted on social media until her birth. Yikes.

How far along? 35 weeks