Aiden is 7 months old already, so partly it’s difficult to think back to when I was pregnant. But that’s just going to get worse, isn’t it?

So, I won’t say that my pregnancy was easy. It wasn’t. Prior to trying for Aiden, my biggest concern was my chronic neck injuries. I was worried about having to sleep on my side, something I hadn’t done for years. I wasn’t prepared, however, for that to be the least painful aspect of the pregnancy!

Maternity shoot at 37 weeks by John Biehler. The full set is here.

For me, the most painful aspect of pregnancy was in my hips. I wanted to cry every time I had to lie down from the aching and stabbing pain in my hips. It’s hard to even remember it now, though. Funny how that is. But I know I spent hours sitting in the rocking chair with a heating pad, sleeping just about as much in my last trimester as I did during the first three months of Aiden’s life (so, not much).

Aside from the pain and the darned heat wave in Vancouver, I felt fantastic. I may have wobbled and I may have been bloated enough to barely fit my Birkenstocks, but I felt fantastic! I loved showing off my ever-expanding tummy (once, of course, I was showing) and loved all the smiles people seemed to have for the pregnant lady.

Knowing how hard pregnancy was, and how hard raising a “spirited child” is… would I do it again? For sure. Crazy, isn’t it?