So my little munchkin has hit his 2 week growth spurt and my sanity has gone right down the drain. Since Saturday my little angel has been a screaming little mess which then turns me into a crying mess and it's a horrible cycle because I can't get him to settle which means he gets overtired and cries which upsets me and then upsets him and so on and so forth.
Today I think that either I made a bit of a breakthrough or he's settling down again. 2 feeds in a row now I've managed to get him into bed without a fuss, long may it continue! I think I was keeping him awake for far too long feeding him and so now I've started trying my best to get him fed, changed and back into bed within an hour, things seem to be looking up. 2 hours of awake time is a lot for a little baby!
Anyway, just thought I'd leave you with that little update. I'd better head to bed now before my eyes fall out! Babies are not good for the under-eye luggage!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Birth Story
Ok so I know I said I'd post it last night but I got a little busy with the Boob Limpet (who didn't want to sleep anywhere but on his mummy) and by the time I got him into bed I was ready to fall into bed myself.
So, here it is. My birth story!
12:50am on the 13th of March, Seth Asher decided he wanted to come out and so, while I was on the toilet he gave a big wriggle and writhed around a bit then I had my first contraction. I was pretty damn sure it was a contraction because it was stronger than any of my BH had been and was painful. Half an hour later when I was back in bed, an ache started up right across my lower back and down low in my abdomen. This kept me from drifting off to sleep so I got up, took a couple of panadol and tried to stretch my back to ease the ache. No matter what position I tried or how I sat or lay, the ache was constant. Trying to distract myself I roamed around the internet, complained on facebook and just generally tried to keep my mind off the ache, it didn’t really work so well. I tried timing the pains to see if there was any rhythm to it but it just seemed to be so constant that I couldn’t tell the beginning or end of anything, just this darn ache!
After getting in and out of bed several times and a couple of doses of panadol, around 6:30 the pain finally eased enough for me to get a rest, and so I slept. About 3 hours later when I woke I felt great, really refreshed. Not long after that the ache started back up again and so back to trying to distract myself and possibly rev them up a little, I was walking tracks in the carpet going round and round the house. It was sometime about here that I went to the loo and had my show. It didn’t look like much, just a whole lot of clear, slippery, sticky mucus. After a little while I decided to try and conserve some energy so went back to bed to lie down and try to rest up. I had noticed that my belly seemed to be pretty much constantly hard, there didn’t seem to be any break between “contractions” and I was starting to get a little worried. By about 3pm, after bouncing in and out of bed a few times, several toilet trips where I had noticed that my show had taken on a bloody tinge, walking around and around in circles and positioning the couch and a chair so I could lean forwards and still be comfortable, I told DH about my tummy staying hard all the time and he urged me to ring the Delivery Suite at the hospital for their opinion. I wasn’t expecting them to say much but they recommended that I Go in for monitoring and to get everything checked out, so at about 3:30 we got there, I was strapped to the monitors and sure enough I was having frequent, regular, pretty strong contractions, about 3 minutes apart and all I could feel was the same ache I’d been having all day! Babys heart rate was fine and there were no issues with the tracings at all so they were quite happy and yes, my tummy was actually relaxing between contractions it just didn’t really feel like it.
At about 4:30 the midwife asked me if I wanted to have my cervix checked and I was actually pretty excited to think that things were happening but I was just expecting to be in the early stages of labour. Nope, I was 4 to 5 cm dilated and everything was all on. I think the midwife was as surprised as I was that I was that dilated because I was just lying there happy as a clam, chatting normally and only occasionally wincing a little at the pain. Since I wasn’t going to be heading home anytime soon I texted friends and family to let them know what was going on and did a little facebook surfing from my phone too, updating a couple of friends.
At this point DH went to get himself some dinner and at 5:20pm my waters broke just as I was about to walk to a labour room rather than an observation room. This kicked my contractions up a notch and they were more noticibly contractions at this point. Then my MIL rang to say her congratulations and I was trying to talk to her during contractions and it wasn’t working too well. She handed the phone to my SIL and I just couldn’t figure out a polite way to get off the phone so I could concentrate more on what was going on with me than what was happening in my ear. Luckily, DH and my mum soon arrived and I pretty much threw the phone at DH and filled mum in on the latest happenings since neither she nor DH knew that my waters had broken.
Not long afterwards we moved to the bigger room and I settled myself in, leaning on the bed. I was then offered to have the entonox tank brought in and I was a little hesitant, I wanted to see how far I could go without it, but I accepted and goodness did it make the contractions easier to handle, especially when I had to lie there with the monitor belts strapped around me. My nana turned up just before the entonox arrived and we pretty much just had a little party going on lol. Not long afterwards my med students came and we just pretty much sat around watching the monitor, me sucking back on the entonox and keeping ourselves occupied. When I was unstrapped from the monitor I spent a lot of my time leaning on the raised back of the bed. I would have been leaning over it but I was a little short lol. I bunched up some pillows at one point and stuffed them under my chest so there was something a little lower for me to lean on.
At about 8pm or so I think I started getting a little grunty during contractions and felt a little bit like pushing. About this point I think we asked if I could get in the tub and see if it helped any. I was not impressed when I was told there was a 25 minute wait for it to be filled but we still asked for it to be filled anyway. By the time the tub was ready I was getting pretty vocal. The midwife was pretty sure I was already pushing and hey, so I was. I never made it to the tub. A second midwife came in and everyone gathered around while I started into the real pushing. DH held my hand and kept telling me how great I was doing. The midwife checked me and said I had a slight lip of cervix at the front and she tried to hold it out of the way while I pushed during a contraction but it just slipped back again. Soon that wasn’t a worry and I was just pushing away with all that I had and the midwife told me she could feel babys head right there! DH zipped away with the camera and started taking pictures (Yes, of my bits!) In the pictures you can see Seths white head just peeking through and then more and more of it as I pushed him further and further out. They brought me a mirror that one of my med students held on to while I pushed so I could watch what was happening. It was fascinating!
Soon I had DH holding one of my legs and a midwife holding the other while I planted my feet against them and pushed with all I had. I kept running out of puff lol and the midwife kept urging me to hold it just a little longer, just push a little more. I could feel this band of resistance right around where I was supposed to be stretching and I said to the midwife “I don’t think I’m going to be able to stretch” About 5 minutes or so later and after a couple more contractions and more pushing that just didn’t seem to be getting anywhere, babys heartrate on the monitor was starting to get a little wobbly so the midwife said “I’m going to have to give you a little cut” and I practically shouted YES at her. DUH, I’d suggested that like 5 minutes ago! So out came a whopping great big needle and a tube of local anaesthetic and, believe me, I was sucking back on the gas pretty hard as she numbed me down there. As soon as I was good and numb she brought out the scissors (both DH and my mother tell me they were gigantic!) And gave me a goodly sized episiotomy. Seths head popped right out after that! Waiting for the next contraction, it felt like a lifetime passed! My mum told me that the midwife really barely had time to lift his head and pull the cord over it before I had pushed him out and he was plonked up onto my belly.
A flurry of warm towels descended on us and all I could do was stare down at my gorgeous little man as they dried him off a bit and wrapped both of us up. He didn’t really look all that pretty lol, in fact he was really quite white and looked rather pissed off at being evicted from his lovely warm home.
This is about the time things took a downward turn. I was bleeding. A lot. They jabbed me in the thigh with the synto and DH cut the cord. They then had me deliver the placenta and jabbed me in the other thigh with some more synto to try to get the bleeding to slow. DH said it looked like I was peeing blood lol. In the end they reckon I lost about a litre all up. I then needed to be stitched back up and the doctor who did it was lovely. He was explaining everything to my med students while he did it and although I have to say it’s a little disconcerting having people chat over your nether regions, I had other things on my mind like my little man who was still snuggled up on my chest/tummy, bundled up under a whole lot of warm towels.
The doctor put my feet up in the stirrup things and very soon they went icy cold from the blood leaving them for more important destinations lol. While I was being stitched (which took about half an hour!) I gave Seth his first feed and just lay there looking at each other. I had a loot at his eyes to see if I could see whether he was going to have the same genetic disorder that I have and when I saw that he most likely wouldn’t, I announced it in a bit of a squeak to the room and my mum did a happy dance lol. After I was all stitched up and the room was tidied a bit, they put the bed back together and let my feet down. Gosh it was good to get them warmed up! DH got to hold Seth and pass him around for the others to meet while I slowly made my way to a position closer to sitting. That was definitely uncomfortable. Then they weighed him and measured him and dressed him up in a cute little outfit.
Soon my mum and nana left so DH and I could just sit and enjoy our new arrival and I had a shower to make me feel a little refreshed. In the shower I felt a little faint but didn’t really think much of it, I had after all just given birth. When I got back to the room the bed linens had been changed and the floor had been mopped and there was my MIL and SIL meeting Seth and just cooing all over him! We stayed in Delivery Suite until about 11:30pm when they came with a wheelchair to wheel me to my room on the maternity ward. I was definately in need of a good sleep at this point and not long afterwards everyone had to go home and I had my first night with my darling little angel.
During the night I had quite a bit of pain where my stitches were and I couldn’t sleep because it was so bad. My bladder got really full but everything was quite bruised so I couldn’t pee and when they tried to get me on a bed pan to give it a go, well the room started going white around the edges and my hearing got really muffled so I quickly lay down on the bed again. It took me a couple of minutes to feel right again.
Two days later they transfused 3 units of blood into me because my hemoglobin was horribly low (I started at around 130, dropped to the 80s the day after delivery and was in the low 60s the next day) and had dropped more than they thought it would. They took me in for a scan to see if I had any internal bleeding and what they called “Free fluid” but they found a hematoma instead, which is basically just a bruise. I didn’t know it but I also had one on my butt around where the end of my episiotomy is and I think that’s why I had such a bad night the first night with pain.
Now I’m feeling a lot better, I have to take iron tablets religiously and because of the blood loss it took a little bit longer than normal for my milk to come in but it’s slowly getting there. I think the Domperidone is helping as is pumping at every opportunity.
Seths Stats were 3310g (7lb4), 50cm long with a 36cm head.
So, here it is. My birth story!
12:50am on the 13th of March, Seth Asher decided he wanted to come out and so, while I was on the toilet he gave a big wriggle and writhed around a bit then I had my first contraction. I was pretty damn sure it was a contraction because it was stronger than any of my BH had been and was painful. Half an hour later when I was back in bed, an ache started up right across my lower back and down low in my abdomen. This kept me from drifting off to sleep so I got up, took a couple of panadol and tried to stretch my back to ease the ache. No matter what position I tried or how I sat or lay, the ache was constant. Trying to distract myself I roamed around the internet, complained on facebook and just generally tried to keep my mind off the ache, it didn’t really work so well. I tried timing the pains to see if there was any rhythm to it but it just seemed to be so constant that I couldn’t tell the beginning or end of anything, just this darn ache!
After getting in and out of bed several times and a couple of doses of panadol, around 6:30 the pain finally eased enough for me to get a rest, and so I slept. About 3 hours later when I woke I felt great, really refreshed. Not long after that the ache started back up again and so back to trying to distract myself and possibly rev them up a little, I was walking tracks in the carpet going round and round the house. It was sometime about here that I went to the loo and had my show. It didn’t look like much, just a whole lot of clear, slippery, sticky mucus. After a little while I decided to try and conserve some energy so went back to bed to lie down and try to rest up. I had noticed that my belly seemed to be pretty much constantly hard, there didn’t seem to be any break between “contractions” and I was starting to get a little worried. By about 3pm, after bouncing in and out of bed a few times, several toilet trips where I had noticed that my show had taken on a bloody tinge, walking around and around in circles and positioning the couch and a chair so I could lean forwards and still be comfortable, I told DH about my tummy staying hard all the time and he urged me to ring the Delivery Suite at the hospital for their opinion. I wasn’t expecting them to say much but they recommended that I Go in for monitoring and to get everything checked out, so at about 3:30 we got there, I was strapped to the monitors and sure enough I was having frequent, regular, pretty strong contractions, about 3 minutes apart and all I could feel was the same ache I’d been having all day! Babys heart rate was fine and there were no issues with the tracings at all so they were quite happy and yes, my tummy was actually relaxing between contractions it just didn’t really feel like it.
At about 4:30 the midwife asked me if I wanted to have my cervix checked and I was actually pretty excited to think that things were happening but I was just expecting to be in the early stages of labour. Nope, I was 4 to 5 cm dilated and everything was all on. I think the midwife was as surprised as I was that I was that dilated because I was just lying there happy as a clam, chatting normally and only occasionally wincing a little at the pain. Since I wasn’t going to be heading home anytime soon I texted friends and family to let them know what was going on and did a little facebook surfing from my phone too, updating a couple of friends.
At this point DH went to get himself some dinner and at 5:20pm my waters broke just as I was about to walk to a labour room rather than an observation room. This kicked my contractions up a notch and they were more noticibly contractions at this point. Then my MIL rang to say her congratulations and I was trying to talk to her during contractions and it wasn’t working too well. She handed the phone to my SIL and I just couldn’t figure out a polite way to get off the phone so I could concentrate more on what was going on with me than what was happening in my ear. Luckily, DH and my mum soon arrived and I pretty much threw the phone at DH and filled mum in on the latest happenings since neither she nor DH knew that my waters had broken.
Not long afterwards we moved to the bigger room and I settled myself in, leaning on the bed. I was then offered to have the entonox tank brought in and I was a little hesitant, I wanted to see how far I could go without it, but I accepted and goodness did it make the contractions easier to handle, especially when I had to lie there with the monitor belts strapped around me. My nana turned up just before the entonox arrived and we pretty much just had a little party going on lol. Not long afterwards my med students came and we just pretty much sat around watching the monitor, me sucking back on the entonox and keeping ourselves occupied. When I was unstrapped from the monitor I spent a lot of my time leaning on the raised back of the bed. I would have been leaning over it but I was a little short lol. I bunched up some pillows at one point and stuffed them under my chest so there was something a little lower for me to lean on.
At about 8pm or so I think I started getting a little grunty during contractions and felt a little bit like pushing. About this point I think we asked if I could get in the tub and see if it helped any. I was not impressed when I was told there was a 25 minute wait for it to be filled but we still asked for it to be filled anyway. By the time the tub was ready I was getting pretty vocal. The midwife was pretty sure I was already pushing and hey, so I was. I never made it to the tub. A second midwife came in and everyone gathered around while I started into the real pushing. DH held my hand and kept telling me how great I was doing. The midwife checked me and said I had a slight lip of cervix at the front and she tried to hold it out of the way while I pushed during a contraction but it just slipped back again. Soon that wasn’t a worry and I was just pushing away with all that I had and the midwife told me she could feel babys head right there! DH zipped away with the camera and started taking pictures (Yes, of my bits!) In the pictures you can see Seths white head just peeking through and then more and more of it as I pushed him further and further out. They brought me a mirror that one of my med students held on to while I pushed so I could watch what was happening. It was fascinating!
Soon I had DH holding one of my legs and a midwife holding the other while I planted my feet against them and pushed with all I had. I kept running out of puff lol and the midwife kept urging me to hold it just a little longer, just push a little more. I could feel this band of resistance right around where I was supposed to be stretching and I said to the midwife “I don’t think I’m going to be able to stretch” About 5 minutes or so later and after a couple more contractions and more pushing that just didn’t seem to be getting anywhere, babys heartrate on the monitor was starting to get a little wobbly so the midwife said “I’m going to have to give you a little cut” and I practically shouted YES at her. DUH, I’d suggested that like 5 minutes ago! So out came a whopping great big needle and a tube of local anaesthetic and, believe me, I was sucking back on the gas pretty hard as she numbed me down there. As soon as I was good and numb she brought out the scissors (both DH and my mother tell me they were gigantic!) And gave me a goodly sized episiotomy. Seths head popped right out after that! Waiting for the next contraction, it felt like a lifetime passed! My mum told me that the midwife really barely had time to lift his head and pull the cord over it before I had pushed him out and he was plonked up onto my belly.
A flurry of warm towels descended on us and all I could do was stare down at my gorgeous little man as they dried him off a bit and wrapped both of us up. He didn’t really look all that pretty lol, in fact he was really quite white and looked rather pissed off at being evicted from his lovely warm home.
This is about the time things took a downward turn. I was bleeding. A lot. They jabbed me in the thigh with the synto and DH cut the cord. They then had me deliver the placenta and jabbed me in the other thigh with some more synto to try to get the bleeding to slow. DH said it looked like I was peeing blood lol. In the end they reckon I lost about a litre all up. I then needed to be stitched back up and the doctor who did it was lovely. He was explaining everything to my med students while he did it and although I have to say it’s a little disconcerting having people chat over your nether regions, I had other things on my mind like my little man who was still snuggled up on my chest/tummy, bundled up under a whole lot of warm towels.
The doctor put my feet up in the stirrup things and very soon they went icy cold from the blood leaving them for more important destinations lol. While I was being stitched (which took about half an hour!) I gave Seth his first feed and just lay there looking at each other. I had a loot at his eyes to see if I could see whether he was going to have the same genetic disorder that I have and when I saw that he most likely wouldn’t, I announced it in a bit of a squeak to the room and my mum did a happy dance lol. After I was all stitched up and the room was tidied a bit, they put the bed back together and let my feet down. Gosh it was good to get them warmed up! DH got to hold Seth and pass him around for the others to meet while I slowly made my way to a position closer to sitting. That was definitely uncomfortable. Then they weighed him and measured him and dressed him up in a cute little outfit.
Soon my mum and nana left so DH and I could just sit and enjoy our new arrival and I had a shower to make me feel a little refreshed. In the shower I felt a little faint but didn’t really think much of it, I had after all just given birth. When I got back to the room the bed linens had been changed and the floor had been mopped and there was my MIL and SIL meeting Seth and just cooing all over him! We stayed in Delivery Suite until about 11:30pm when they came with a wheelchair to wheel me to my room on the maternity ward. I was definately in need of a good sleep at this point and not long afterwards everyone had to go home and I had my first night with my darling little angel.
During the night I had quite a bit of pain where my stitches were and I couldn’t sleep because it was so bad. My bladder got really full but everything was quite bruised so I couldn’t pee and when they tried to get me on a bed pan to give it a go, well the room started going white around the edges and my hearing got really muffled so I quickly lay down on the bed again. It took me a couple of minutes to feel right again.
Two days later they transfused 3 units of blood into me because my hemoglobin was horribly low (I started at around 130, dropped to the 80s the day after delivery and was in the low 60s the next day) and had dropped more than they thought it would. They took me in for a scan to see if I had any internal bleeding and what they called “Free fluid” but they found a hematoma instead, which is basically just a bruise. I didn’t know it but I also had one on my butt around where the end of my episiotomy is and I think that’s why I had such a bad night the first night with pain.
Now I’m feeling a lot better, I have to take iron tablets religiously and because of the blood loss it took a little bit longer than normal for my milk to come in but it’s slowly getting there. I think the Domperidone is helping as is pumping at every opportunity.
Seths Stats were 3310g (7lb4), 50cm long with a 36cm head.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Welcome to the World
My gorgeous little son, Seth Asher, was born on the 13th of March at 9:01pm. Yes, that was really it!
20 hours of labour and all I used was the entonox! Go me *Wink* He was 7lb4 (3310g), 50cm long with a 36cm head. A big head just like his father lol.
I've written out my birth story and I'll post it later on tonight, I really have to get started on dinner and hopefully eat it before the little munchkin wakes up for his next feed!
20 hours of labour and all I used was the entonox! Go me *Wink* He was 7lb4 (3310g), 50cm long with a 36cm head. A big head just like his father lol.
I've written out my birth story and I'll post it later on tonight, I really have to get started on dinner and hopefully eat it before the little munchkin wakes up for his next feed!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Progress
Well, I'm still in one piece, for now. I managed to get about 3 hours sleep and a couple more hours of just lying down dozing, trying to reserve my energy. The pains keep coming and going but they're not exactly timeable at the moment so I'm still in wait and see mode.
I've had my "show" as far as I can tell and the pains have been very slowly amping up since then but the last time I tried timing them I got 40 seconds long and 1min20 apart. Lol. Somehow I don't think that's quite right...
Anyway, I'd better get back to pottering around doing random bits and pieces to keep me occupied while I wait.
I've had my "show" as far as I can tell and the pains have been very slowly amping up since then but the last time I tried timing them I got 40 seconds long and 1min20 apart. Lol. Somehow I don't think that's quite right...
Anyway, I'd better get back to pottering around doing random bits and pieces to keep me occupied while I wait.
Could it be..?
Could this be it?
37 weeks 6 days and I'm having pains and have a belly that feels like a brick. This has been going for about 3 and a half hours now. I have no idea how far apart the pains are because at first it seemed like it was never ending and right now it's hard to figure out when they start and stop. They're not massively long though so I think I have a little while to go yet.
Heh, I tried to get some sleep but that was an absolute no go. This is like the absolute worst period cramps I have ever felt times 4! Not quite as bad as mistprostil contractions though, those bastards brought tears to my eyes. These ones just make me squint a bit at the moment. I'm managing to type through them without spelling mistakes lol so either I'm good at this or they're not that bad. HA!
The Man Thing woke up so I let him know what's happening and told him to get some sleep so he is. I think. Either that or he's just lying in bed lol.
I'd better see if I can time the pains and see how long and how far apart they are. I don't want to be rushing to the hospital when I realise that I need to push lol.
37 weeks 6 days and I'm having pains and have a belly that feels like a brick. This has been going for about 3 and a half hours now. I have no idea how far apart the pains are because at first it seemed like it was never ending and right now it's hard to figure out when they start and stop. They're not massively long though so I think I have a little while to go yet.
Heh, I tried to get some sleep but that was an absolute no go. This is like the absolute worst period cramps I have ever felt times 4! Not quite as bad as mistprostil contractions though, those bastards brought tears to my eyes. These ones just make me squint a bit at the moment. I'm managing to type through them without spelling mistakes lol so either I'm good at this or they're not that bad. HA!
The Man Thing woke up so I let him know what's happening and told him to get some sleep so he is. I think. Either that or he's just lying in bed lol.
I'd better see if I can time the pains and see how long and how far apart they are. I don't want to be rushing to the hospital when I realise that I need to push lol.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Still In One Piece
So it's another month and I'm still in one piece. Wow, 37 weeks, I never thought I'd get here! Very happily married for almost a whole month now and things are going great between The Man Thing and I.
Mr Squigglebum is still squiggling around in there quite happily though I think his living quarters are starting to get a bit cramped. Now some of the movements that he tries to do really hurt! Especially when I get an entire limb feel like it's trying to escape out through my side!
Still getting lots and lots of Braxton Hicks contractions which are a pain in the butt. They haven't managed to keep me awake at night in a little while but according to The Man Thing I'm now whimpering and making funny pain noises in the middle of the night, loud enough and frequently enough to wake him from a dead sleep!
Last week I had my cervix checked out visually to see if there was any remnants of the cerclage still hanging around and remove them if needed but the Obstetrician (not my usual one) couldn't see anything which is awesome. Hopefully that means that when this ship is ready she'll take off *Wink*
I also have 2 lovely med students following my pregnancy now and how everything is going to turn out. After last time where things didn't quite go to plan I'm quite happy that this time everything -should- work out, fingers crossed!
I also had another med student in on the last appointment with the OB, checking my cervix. She was lovely and I'm quite happy that I gave her the opportunity to learn *Smile* Gosh I just love being a guinea pig don't I!!
I've asked my two med students if they would like to sit in on the birth and they both said that they would love to. I don't mind having a couple of quiet spectators or even a couple more hands if required lol, and I'm hoping to get one of them to video or at least take pictures of the birth so really they would be doing ME a favour!
I've also been writing out the draft for my final birth plan, the one that is going to go with me to the hospital. It will be short and sweet and basically say "I know what pain relief is available to me, please do not offer me pain relief, if I require it I will ask for it" and "If a cesarean under a general anaesthetic should be required I would like my husband, The Man Thing, to have skin to skin time as soon as physically possible, if he wishes" and that's something I'm going to talk to him about too.
I have a new midwife. My last one has left the hospital to return to her home country and now I have a lovely lady who I feel just as comfortable with. I guess from spending a lot of time in the hospital as a child I got quite accustomed to new faces in my health care.
My back pain has been coming and going. It's usually a lot better after The Man Thing gives me a back massage, something I've been asking for a lot lately. Pity he isn't home tonight to give me one because I can feel my back starting to tighten up already.
I've started drinking Raspberry Leaf Tea to get my uterus in tip top condition. I'm wondering if it's going to make my Braxton Hicks contractions worse or if they will just stay the same. I've slowly increased my consumption from one cup of RLT a day to three as of today. I'm also going to get some Evening Primrose Oil capsules. Even if they don't do anything, well the tea tastes quite nice and the EPO caps make my skin look amazing. I know, I used to use them every day to help lessen PMS symptoms and ease the skin conditions I've been troubled with for years.
Anyway, I think that's enough from me for now. I'd better see what's for dinner and so on.
Mr Squigglebum is still squiggling around in there quite happily though I think his living quarters are starting to get a bit cramped. Now some of the movements that he tries to do really hurt! Especially when I get an entire limb feel like it's trying to escape out through my side!
Still getting lots and lots of Braxton Hicks contractions which are a pain in the butt. They haven't managed to keep me awake at night in a little while but according to The Man Thing I'm now whimpering and making funny pain noises in the middle of the night, loud enough and frequently enough to wake him from a dead sleep!
Last week I had my cervix checked out visually to see if there was any remnants of the cerclage still hanging around and remove them if needed but the Obstetrician (not my usual one) couldn't see anything which is awesome. Hopefully that means that when this ship is ready she'll take off *Wink*
I also have 2 lovely med students following my pregnancy now and how everything is going to turn out. After last time where things didn't quite go to plan I'm quite happy that this time everything -should- work out, fingers crossed!
I also had another med student in on the last appointment with the OB, checking my cervix. She was lovely and I'm quite happy that I gave her the opportunity to learn *Smile* Gosh I just love being a guinea pig don't I!!
I've asked my two med students if they would like to sit in on the birth and they both said that they would love to. I don't mind having a couple of quiet spectators or even a couple more hands if required lol, and I'm hoping to get one of them to video or at least take pictures of the birth so really they would be doing ME a favour!
I've also been writing out the draft for my final birth plan, the one that is going to go with me to the hospital. It will be short and sweet and basically say "I know what pain relief is available to me, please do not offer me pain relief, if I require it I will ask for it" and "If a cesarean under a general anaesthetic should be required I would like my husband, The Man Thing, to have skin to skin time as soon as physically possible, if he wishes" and that's something I'm going to talk to him about too.
I have a new midwife. My last one has left the hospital to return to her home country and now I have a lovely lady who I feel just as comfortable with. I guess from spending a lot of time in the hospital as a child I got quite accustomed to new faces in my health care.
My back pain has been coming and going. It's usually a lot better after The Man Thing gives me a back massage, something I've been asking for a lot lately. Pity he isn't home tonight to give me one because I can feel my back starting to tighten up already.
I've started drinking Raspberry Leaf Tea to get my uterus in tip top condition. I'm wondering if it's going to make my Braxton Hicks contractions worse or if they will just stay the same. I've slowly increased my consumption from one cup of RLT a day to three as of today. I'm also going to get some Evening Primrose Oil capsules. Even if they don't do anything, well the tea tastes quite nice and the EPO caps make my skin look amazing. I know, I used to use them every day to help lessen PMS symptoms and ease the skin conditions I've been troubled with for years.
Anyway, I think that's enough from me for now. I'd better see what's for dinner and so on.
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