CBB Exclusive: Melissa Joan Hart's pregnancy journal: The home stretch
Together with actress Melissa Joan Hart, 31, we bring you the second-to-last installment of her pregnancy column. Yes, we know we said this would be the last, but we have extra outtake images to share and Melissa had more to say, so the final column will actually be going up next week! Here, she discusses her belly getting in the way, the nesting instinct, fear of labor, "homework" from her OB, and Mason.
Melissa is now in her 37th week of pregnancy. Click below for the entry, including images from our exclusive photoshoot!
As mybelly grows to uncontrollable sizes, I am reminded of all the funny andridiculous things pregnant woman can’t do. I can no longer climb on thecounter to reach the high plates, fit in most of my maternity shirtswithout my belly hanging out, and most embarrassing is that I can nolonger fit into a booth at a restaurant.
Let’s not forget tying myshoes, or squeezing out of the car if I park too close to the one on myside. I constantly feel like a science experiment just trying to figureout my way through the new conundrums that perplex my daily life!
Click below for the rest of Melissa’s musings and her and Mason’s CBB photoshoot.
Thenesting instinct is unreal right now, but I am holding off a few moredays before I let that take hold and lead me through my day. I have beentoo busy to even think of all the things I haven’t done to welcome thisnew little one home yet.
Between my career, which has been unbelievablyoverwhelming during this pregnancy and writer’s strike, strangelyenough, and Mark’s new album release, Grammy nomination and releaseparty I threw for him … it is a huge understatement to say wehave been busy.
Add a little boy who hit the terrible twos literally theday before his birthday and a huge 30 pound belly with a kickboxerinside and you can understand why I am on my last legs!
The fear oflabor has now snuck in, especially after my first experience was a fullblown battle with all kinds of scars to prove it. But when my husbandthought my need to try a different approach and give hypnobirthing ashot was a hoax and asked our doctor what she thought, she sowonderfully explained to him how around 35 weeks the fear is completelynormal and real for me. I swear only a woman could understand!
So Ihave been given homework to help move this baby along and hopefully have him or her born in the next few weeks; primrose oil, birthing balltime and of course, the tried and true attempt of sex to progress thelabor!
Hoping that this will work wonders and we can welcome our new baby homein about 2 or 3 weeks, I am now going to go into crazy nesting mode. Turning off thephone, locking the door to anything that isn’t involving fun,socializing, or sterilizing!
As I think of the near future and shake atthe thoughts of both breastfeeding and potty training at the same time,I know more than ever that I have to enjoy these last few days with thebaby neatly wrapped in my belly and my little Mason whose world isabout to change forever! I can’t wait to see what a wonderful bigbrother he will be, but I also feel guilty for moving him from onlychild, to eldest child. But then I always knew I would have a bigfamily, just as I had, because there is nothing better than closesiblings to enjoy your life with.
M & M & m.
Photos copyright Jennifer Parris/Gabbeli Photography, shot exclusively for CBB in late January. Useelsewhere is prohibited. Hair & makeup by Douglas Martucci.
Mason is drumming away on a First Act Discovery 8 Piece Junior Drum Set ($129.99). It’s a professional quality drum set for children includes a 16" bass drum, 10" mounted tom drum, 10" snare drum, 13" floor tom, a 10" mounted brass cymbal, and a hi-hat stand with 10" cymbals. First Act is a professional-level musical products company. Their First Act Discovery line is for created for children. They have a new line of infant and toddler instruments coming out later this year.
Click here for the previous entries to Melissa’s pregnancy journal for CBB.
I love how honest she is – I wish she’d continue the column!
