Pregnancy 4.0

As you all know, I am pregnant again. This is the first time that we are not having a surprise baby so I had the pregnancy all planned out. The main point of this pregnancy was that I was going to continue working out throughout the entire 9 months. I went on walks while I was pregnant with Dash, but that is about the extent of my fitness routine while pregnant.

Leading up to this pregnancy, I have been a member of Title Boxing Club for over a year. I love it there. The classes are so much fun and it is a great workout. Also, it has done amazing things for my... backside. So I have this brilliant plan that I will keep up my boxing classes. Never miss a beat, I say. Pregnancy will not even faze me, I think. I will be this pregnant badass in class. Running around and killing it on the heavy bags with my pregnant belly. It will be awesome.

Wrong.

The first kink in my plan was that I forgot how freaking tired you are during the first trimester. I am older, I have 3 other little demon spawns who never stop, and this pregnancy has been way harder than the previous 3. So... when it came time to get up, get dressed, and go be a "pregnant badass", I usually decided on a nap. One time I went upstairs to get dressed, sat on the bed to put on my shoes, and woke up 2 hours later. I wish I was lying, but I am not. That happened.

The second problem with my plan is a serious problem, one that I have been really upset about for the last 3 weeks. So the time came in my pregnancy, that glorious time when you can use it to get out of exercises. Once you are out of the first trimester, they say that you should no longer do ab exercises where you lay on your back. So we go to do abs at the end of class and I ask the instructor if I can have some alternate exercises. She asks "Why? What's wrong? Why can't you? What wrong?" I reply, very happily "Nothing's wrong... just making a baby." To which she replies "Me too!". Come to find out with further discussion, she is 2 months behind me with her first child.

WHAT?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys. Worst. Thing. Ever. Like ever.

Are you guys understanding why this is so awful? If not, let me explain. She is pregnant with her first. I am pregnant with my fourth. This is significant because she will not show until she is like 5 months. I am 18 weeks and HUGE! You show so much sooner with every pregnancy. This means I am going to be 8 months and gigantic and she is going to be bouncing around all tiny at 6.

Therefore, I will not be looking like a pregnant badass. Instead, I will be looking like a struggling beached whale while my instructor looks like a pregnant badass! She totally stole my shine! Also, she is the peppy instructor... you know the one. The instructor that is always happy and super loud and never stops moving. I am going to sweaty and dragging my belly all around the bag and she is going to be like "Pregnancy is awesome!".

Bitch.

Ugh. Just rude. And super inconsiderate. She should have thought about me and my image before she conceived.