As of today, I have 60 days left. That's like two months, or 9 weeks if I am tortured with this affliction until my estimated due date. That's not much time!
Valentine's Day came and went. I still think it's a stupid holiday. I did get a nice card from my husband the weekend BEFORE Valentine's Day though. And he was nice enough to put the new dresser together for the baby and hang the pictures that go with the crib set. Now we've got the big stuff together and we just need the little things to go with it. Kinda neat. The furniture looks great in the room and I'm very pleased with everything I picked out.
I'm sure you're DYING to hear what my new symptom of the week is! I was hoping to get a week off from pregnancy pains, but Nooooooo!
During the second and third trimester, your baby's head may rest heavily on the sciatic nerve in the lower part of the spinal canal. Sciatica, the pain, numbness, and/or tingling you feel as a result, begins deep in the buttocks and radiates down the back of your legs.
Hip pain! Hip pain that goes all the way down to my big toe. It's lovely and fun. I wake up in the middle of the night with the left half of my ass and leg asleep, and yet under the sleeping part is this stabbing brutal pain that makes it almost impossible to waddle my way to the bathroom to have my middle of the night wee's. Thanks! I totally needed that!
Last Wednesday I felt some pains on the way to my math class. For some silly reason I thought it was because my pant were too tight. That in itself was silly, because I was wearing my maternity pants which are not tight. Then it happened again and I was like "ooooh I remember those, that's a contraction" Sonofabiznatch that hurts. I had these lovely crampy pains all through my 2 hour class.
My husband who has been pregnant many times just said "that's normal". Although in his defense he has been around a knocked up woman a time or two so he probably is kind of a Daddy expert on the whole thing by now. But no...more than a few contractions that are about 4-5 minutes apart for a couple hours is not normal. So I went home chugged enough water to make me nauseous and tried to lay down. Unfortunately all the water chugging made me have to get up to wee every 10 minutes. But I managed to relax and after another hour they stopped.
That night I had the most lovely aching belly that lasted into the next day. I also woke up with the lovely feeling that someone had rudely kicked me in my pelvic region, this was painful enough to wake me up a few times. In between that and the insanely horrid hip pain I've been having some miserable nights.
I'm not sure if the baby flipped around after that day of painful contractions or what, but I've gotten notably more uncomfortable. I was really hoping I wouldn't feel this yuck this early, but oh well. Such is life as a pregnant woman!
I have a doc visit next week so we'll see what he has to say.
Nesting hasn't kicked in yet in the real world, but in my Animal Crossing town it's been running rampant. I've chopped down almost every single tree in my town so that I could replace them with neat(ish) rows of apple trees, cedar trees in one far corner, and certain types of flowers in certain areas of town. Flowers that don't belong are quickly plucked and moved elsewhere, and we have a lovely row of coconut trees growing along the beach shore.
Realizing that I was bored I decided maybe I needed a more constructive project so I went out over the weekend to buy some cute baby flannel and cotton prints and have started making blankets and burp cloths. I have realized that I am a genius when it comes to sewing things that are square shaped. It makes you feel like you've accomplished something and my lovely hubbie was nice enough to say that they look like the ones you get from the store.
"Only CUTER"...I added.
Maybe I'll do another blog this week once I've totally completed the project. It really is about the most simple thing I've ever sewn and I believe anyone could make these. Only they wouldn't be as cute as mine.
Ok I'm bored with this for now, and it's getting long again. Thanks for hanging in there with me. I'm going to go put my feet up and find that heating pad.
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