The third trimester of pregnancy is well-known for being the most physically uncomfortable as the bump that started in the first or second trimester continues to grow. It also is the trimester when women get a boost of nesting energy as they prep for baby’s arrival. But how do these symptoms really affect women’s day-to-day lives? I crowdsourced and asked my family and friends to complete the following sentence: “You know you are in your 3rd trimester when…” Here are some of the hilarious results.
- You’ve eaten a lifetime’s worth of pineapple.
- You’ve run out of things to clean in your house.
- Days feel like weeks and weeks feel like months, and you’re pretty sure this baby is never going to come out.
- All of the shoes you keep by the front door are slip-ons, but you’re still tempted to just leave the house barefoot.
- You need a mirror to shave your legs.
- Or you just give up on shaving your legs all together.
- Someone has to help put on your pants/tights/shoes.
- You are too big to fit in the booth … at a fast food restaurant nonetheless!
- You have to wear poise pads because every time you sneeze you pee a little.
- You have to sleep on the couch at night because the bed is so uncomfortable.
- You have to ask someone to help you get up once you sit or lay down.
- Strangers always let you go straight to the front of the line in the bathroom.
- You start getting comments almost daily like: “you look like you’re about to pop!” or “must be any day now.”
- The thought of pushing 10 pounds out your hoo-ha is less scary than the thought of one more day of this.
- You wonder if you should bring your overnight bag with you EVERY time you leave your house!
- You turn sideways to let someone pass you, forgetting that it doesn’t help.
- Strangers can’t fight the urge to reach out and rub your belly.
- You can talk on speaker phone with the phone balancing perfectly on your belly.
- You get out of breath just thinking about standing up.
- You wash, iron, and hang up all the baby clothes, just because you can.
- You say you are starving, yet after five bites you are stuffed!
- Even your largest maternity clothes stop covering your belly but you just can’t convince yourself to buy something new for only a few weeks.
- Your cankles have cankles.
- You wear compression socks.
- Your husband asks you to turn away from him in bed because the baby’s kicking is keeping him awake.