Elephant Legs

There is a reason why elephant have such thick legs that look almost like tree trunks with no ankles. Starting at around 32 weeks, my feet and legs have grown bigger and for the last four weeks, you can barely tell my legs apart from that of elephants. And I only need to carry Chamu to 40 weeks. For elephants, they need to carry their babies for 80 weeks and that's why they need twice as many legs with 4x size of our legs.

It's called Edema, caused by excessive water retention. Yes, even though most pregnant women at this stage have at least one restroom break every hour, a lot of us still end up with too much water on our lower body. Best way to reduce amount of water retention is to facilitate lower-body blood circulation by lying down with your feet up. But really, when you are working full time, when can you afford the luxury to lie down? I am grateful already that I get to wear size 9 Birkenstock to work so I should be grateful that I don't need to squeeze my elephant feet into high heel pumps. Don't bother buying too many new shoes, I have already outgrown the ones I bought 6 weeks ago. Hopefully my size 9 Birkenstock can last for four more weeks.