Pregnancy = Pain

Now in my 34th week of pregnancy, I feel even more pain than ever, especially in my legs. It was two weeks ago when I started noticing a giant varicose vein growing in my upper left thigh, near the groin area. I thought this was the most pain that I would experience, but I was wrong. When I woke up this morning, I started feeling some aches and pains around my abdominal area and they're not contractions. I just have them everytime I try to walk around. This is bad for me because I still have to continue working until I'm in my 36th or 37th week (I have no vacation leaves left, and I don't want to take my maternity leave too early because I want to spend more time with my baby girl) so I guess I have to be stronger and endure.

I'll see my doctor on Monday to assess whether I could deliver normally or not. I've spoken with my resident psychic and she said I had an 80% chance of delivering via C-Section. I kind of believe what my psychic friend says because she predicted I would find out that I was pregnant in March (she said this October of last year), then she predicted my baby's gender, and also predicted that I would have a hard pregnancy, and so on and so on. She's 80+ years old, very legit, she doesn't charge, she still works as our museum consultant here in Clark, and I'm not the only person she's used her "powers" on. She's never been wrong.

About the hard pregnancy, well, I haven't talked about this much yet, but I'll tell you now. In my third month, I started bleeding and was advised to rest for a month to prevent miscarriage. Then in my 6th month, I almost had a premature delivery. What was the common cause? STRESS. So I really really really advise all pregnant women out there to try to do relaxing stuff, even when at work.

What I do now is listen to my favorite music and sometimes don't show up for work when I know that something really stressful is coming. Hehehe.