Week 16

Choice #1

Day 1

Today my feet do not feel well. The swelling has increased a lot. I don’t know if my feet can stretch much father! What’s even more gross than the swelling is that under the skin it looks like someone put jello there. Every time I take a step the top of my foot jiggles. It is so nasty! I had to show Andrew this, so I pinged my foot a few times. It grossed him out so much that he turned a little green around the ears. I have to admit that was funny.

But for the over all look my feet look like normal feet, just very swollen. I currently don’t have ankles, and if the swelling gets any worse my stub toes will disappear. I hope it doesn’t get that bad.

Day 2

Boy was I wrong about my feet not being able to stretch much farther. My feet look double the size of yesterday! How can this be? Did I retain a lot of yesterday’s fluid instead of getting rid of it, and then add more today? I don’t fully understand. At least my little toes didn’t disappear like I thought they would.

What I do know though is that my feet hurt the most they have during my entire pregnancy. I don’t know if I can handle another day of jello feet. I could barely get my shoes on today and the ones I’m currently wearing are a size and a half to bigger than my usual shoes! I hope the swelling will go away permanently after Aidan is born so I don’t have to buy a new shoe size. I don’t want to be like some ladies who have to go out and buy all new shoes because their feet didn’t shrink. Oh, God I don’t want that to happen.

Day 3

My feet have hardly swollen at all today. YES! The jello look is gone too! I don’t know exactly what I did different today besides all the walking. I had read a while ago that walking will decrease fluid retention, but I hadn’t been doing it because it made my feet hurt. Go figure, huh? But walking today had the opposite affect. After all that walking my feet actually look normal! I haven’t been able to say that in months! Especially after yesterday. I didn’t think the swelling would go down. Especially not over night! Maybe, just maybe, I won’t have to worry about buying a new shoe collection. But, oh well. My feet feel great, and I can only hope they feel this good tomorrow.