I'm too tired to write this post!
I was 32 weeks yesterday!
This week has had a few problems! I woke up on Wednesday morning and realized I hadn't felt the baby move. Usually she wakes me up through the night quite a lot! It was about 5am so I lay there for a while wiggling my belly around trying to wake her up. She still wouldn't move. I started to get a little worried as I can always get my babies to move by doing this. I decide to get out of bed, go to the toilet and have a drink of cold water but still nothing. I went back to bed to see if she would start moving but no she didn't. I started freaking out and thought I'm going to have to go to the hospital and deliver a dead baby. I honestly started thinking she had died. I woke Jay up crying and freaking out at about 6am. He was actually quite comforting and asked if I rung Sonja? I decided to get up and give her a call. Ezekiel was already up so I was trying not to let him know I was upset but of course if you think your babies dead it's not exactly easy to hide! Once Sonja could actually understand me she suggested getting a glass of ice and cold water and skulking it down and then sit and see what happened. I did this and honestly within a minute of sitting down she started moving. What a relief! I cried again from happiness! She was obviously having such a good sleep! I've had no problems with her moving ever since. :)
On Thursday night I was grocery shopping when I started to get a pain in my right rib exactly the same as when I was pregnant last time. It feels as though your rib has been pulled out and is extremely painful. I was about 37 weeks when this happened last time and it didn't get better until after birth! The pain is there every time I move for more than about 10 minutes. So walking, housework, cooking everything except sitting back or laying down hurts! It starts off as an ache and then increases until it hurts to breathe! Sitting down relieves it (it takes about 15 minutes or so) and then when I get back up it starts again. My sciatica pain is totally bearable compared to this! I went and saw my first ever chiropractor today. She confirmed that my rib was out and was sitting either over or under (I can't remember) my other rib and was stuck. Apparently with all the pregnancy hormones this can happen if there is already a weakness there. She used a special hammer machine thing (I'm sure it has a more technical name) and got it back in. She cracked my back and neck and relieved some of the tension around my shoulders. I will be going back on Friday and again next week and hopefully that should have it sorted!
I have booked our accommodation for the birth conference which is only a little over 5 weeks away! I'm pretty excited and am looking forwarded to focusing on birth!
Donna sent my baby celebration invites out last week. I will need to post a pic as soon as I get one. Thanks Donna for doing these :)
I am still tired but have had spurts of energy to get some cupboards cleaned out. Unfortunately we have hade mice in the house so I've been busy making sure there is no mice poo around (I really really can not stand mice!).
The boys are on school holidays which is nice to be able to do things we want in our own time and not having to rush out of the house early in the morning.
I think there is still room enough for bubba to flip positions. Some days her hiccups are quite low in the pelvis, other days they are up around my belly button and some days right up under my ribs! It's certainly confusing and makes it hard for me to figure out which way she is laying!
I have moments of such excitement when I think about the birth and meeting her and also moments of fear! I'm definitely glad I still have 8ish weeks left to enjoy having her still inside.
I'm pretty sure I have picked her name out too but won't know 100% until she is born :)
-Kathy
