It's so frustrating. This weekend, Chris' parents had Carter for possibly his last hurrah up there before the new baby comes. It was WONDERFUL to sleep in on Saturday and Sunday. While my nights' sleep isn't as restful as I would like, I still felt good because of the lateness I had to get up. Today was back to reality. The alarm went off this morning and I felt like utter crapola. I had woken up several times in the night and once I had even contemplated getting up to eat or something, I just couldn't get back to sleep. So, when I had to get up this morning, I was not a happy camper.
Sleeping just is not comfortable right now. I have this huge knot in my neck from sleeping on one side or the other, but I can't figure out which. I can't sleep on my back which is the position that my body seems to want to go. On my back, my neck relaxes and my back doesn't hurt. On my sides, the back hurts and I get pains in my legs. UGH!! Four more weeks.
At least once the baby comes, I'll be able to hopefully get a few hours of decent sleep at a time. I'm sure she will be a non-sleeper since Carter was so easy-peasey, but anything will be better than this right now.
Went to the doctor on Friday. Everything looks great. I told him about the few days that I have had where I was having some hard contractions and he looked at me and said, "Sounds like you are pregnant!" You know, it was all I could do from clocking him upside the head. I know he was just trying to make light of the situation since it really is nothing to be worried about, but wow. I'm now going every week and I'm assuming they will start checking for any progress from here on out. Not that I expect anything to start considering last time I didn't do ANYTHING down there.
But, no matter what, even if she decides that she's ready to come out early, four weeks from today, I will either be in the hospital or home with my little one. Hard to believe!
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Yes I'm still here...
Sorry for the lack of posting for the few people that read this. It's just been a few crazy weeks. I have definitely crossed over to the majorly uncomfortable portion of this program called pregnancy. I have been having some much stronger contractions, but nothing regular. They just come and go as they seem fit and leave me wondering if more are coming. The other day at work I literally had to stop working and close my eyes through a particularly rough one. One whole side of the belly just got rock-hard for about a minute or so. But, nothing else happened so all was good.
Then, yesterday, my mom and I had planned to go shopping for some clothes for Ali. I went up into the attic (bad mistake number one) and rolled down the three bags of clothes that I have collected that were stored up there (not that I lifted them, but bad mistake number two). After sitting on our very low and sinkable couch (B.M. number three) to sort them all out, Mom showed up. My lower back was starting to feel tight which I attributed to sitting on the couch upright so long. I got up and sat in my Poang chair. When I got up from there, my back started screaming. I couldn't bend whatsoever. I couldn't even lean over to pick up my glass of water. My tummy was rock hard again and I was very very hot. It was quite humid despite being comfortable outside so I had been sweaty all morning. After about an hour of me downing some water and stressing over the back pain, it started to feel slightly better. I called the doctor's office and got the emergency number just in case. But, after a while, I figured I just had overexerted myself that morning. I found my maternity belt that I haven't been wearing and put it on. Then instead of heading to Arundel Mills like originally planned, Mom, Carter and I went to Babies R Us.
After going through the clothes that my cousin had given me, I realized that I had quite a bit of itty bitty sizes, much more than I orignially thought. So, while at BRU, I was contimplating using this shopping trip for more gear-like things like bottles and pacis and such. But, after seeing all the clothes, I decided to go ahead and stock up on them. I got a good amount but after sorting everything later last night, realized I may have too much in the newborn sizes. I may take some of the new things back and get 3-6 month clothes. Plus, my cousin may have more for me from her friend. Overall, I think we are pretty set!
Chris is going this afternoon to the College Park Ikea to get the dresser for her room. Apparently our Ikea does not carry the full line of furniture and they don't ship between stores. How stupid is that? We looked it up online to see how much it would be to have it shipped home. Yeah, for a dresser that is about $250, the shipping was over $300!! So, it's definitely worth the time and gas for Chris to drive down to College Park. Hopefully he will get to put all the furniture together sometime this week and we'll start actually having a room ready!
So, six weeks to go. It's gonna be a rough ride.
Then, yesterday, my mom and I had planned to go shopping for some clothes for Ali. I went up into the attic (bad mistake number one) and rolled down the three bags of clothes that I have collected that were stored up there (not that I lifted them, but bad mistake number two). After sitting on our very low and sinkable couch (B.M. number three) to sort them all out, Mom showed up. My lower back was starting to feel tight which I attributed to sitting on the couch upright so long. I got up and sat in my Poang chair. When I got up from there, my back started screaming. I couldn't bend whatsoever. I couldn't even lean over to pick up my glass of water. My tummy was rock hard again and I was very very hot. It was quite humid despite being comfortable outside so I had been sweaty all morning. After about an hour of me downing some water and stressing over the back pain, it started to feel slightly better. I called the doctor's office and got the emergency number just in case. But, after a while, I figured I just had overexerted myself that morning. I found my maternity belt that I haven't been wearing and put it on. Then instead of heading to Arundel Mills like originally planned, Mom, Carter and I went to Babies R Us.
After going through the clothes that my cousin had given me, I realized that I had quite a bit of itty bitty sizes, much more than I orignially thought. So, while at BRU, I was contimplating using this shopping trip for more gear-like things like bottles and pacis and such. But, after seeing all the clothes, I decided to go ahead and stock up on them. I got a good amount but after sorting everything later last night, realized I may have too much in the newborn sizes. I may take some of the new things back and get 3-6 month clothes. Plus, my cousin may have more for me from her friend. Overall, I think we are pretty set!
Chris is going this afternoon to the College Park Ikea to get the dresser for her room. Apparently our Ikea does not carry the full line of furniture and they don't ship between stores. How stupid is that? We looked it up online to see how much it would be to have it shipped home. Yeah, for a dresser that is about $250, the shipping was over $300!! So, it's definitely worth the time and gas for Chris to drive down to College Park. Hopefully he will get to put all the furniture together sometime this week and we'll start actually having a room ready!
So, six weeks to go. It's gonna be a rough ride.