Hi Bella,
No, you are not the turkey, but I do like to call you "butterball" sometimes since we haven't named you yet.
Well, here I am 7 months pregnant, feeling very big and you are causing a great pain in my upper right rib and back. Excruciating at times, I usually have to stop what I am doing, and/or lie on my back. This started when I was about 4 1/2-5 months, if I remember right. Just as I was starting to show with you, and just when you were getting bigger and bigger.
I've been off work since mid-August, so that makes it a little over 3 months now. Torn between really searching for a position until January, or lying low and enjoying the time off and the unemployment, waiting for you to be born.
You are due in February, on the 16th to be precise. I'm not too worried about the actual labor. Maybe I should be, but I have experienced some painful contractions when I was pregnant before and lost your sister (or brother), in the hospital in France in Dec of 2006.
Your Dad has been more supportive and more understanding of what I am going through. I wish he could physically experience the pregnancy though because it is really a strange time period, both mentally and physically, and I'd love someone to understand me more.
Well..that is it for now. I will try to write every so often.
xoxo
Mom