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Tuesday, 29 Jan
Well- even though I started new here right around 24 hours ago- my journey with this 2nd pregnancy has been anything but kind to me since the end of my 5th month. In september I suffered a very nasty bout with the flu that towards the last 5 days of it- landed me a hospital stay. Since that time I have had so many comings and goings of unpleaant things plus for almost a month and half now- mega painful false labor dumbed near every day which started at 4 times a day and dropped down to 2 or 3 and then decided to rise back up to 4 times a day every other day to every two days. Sleep thanks to pain when laying down is pretty much a pathetic effort for reasoning that there is nowhere comfortable for me to sleep in my house and naps during the day while my husband is at work and my 7 year old son is at school are just about futile as well. My whole bottom half has been hurting aka- my hips and pelvic region as well as my upper thighs and false labor makes me want to scream like you wouldn `t believe. I never had these problems when I was pregnant with my first son and I surely didn `t expect to have problems with this pregnancy but I guess I have that flu episode from september to thank for the monkey wrench that thrown into my shoulda ` been smooth sailing this time around simply because I was just fine the first 5 months and now I `m not. My advice to anyone is this: Avoid people with colds and possible variations of the flu while pregnant for reasoning that there is one very deadly strain of flu that could land you a hospital stay too and potentially mess things up as badly as it did for me.
Wednesday, 30 Jan
Oye Vey! After I got off the computer- I had a really rough rest of the day. I false labored all day long clear up until I took a nap and then low and behold it came back again more painful than before and fairly close together as well. This is the second day in a row that I have had to deal with this and I have long since grown tired of it. I don `t really know how much longer I will be able to hold up before I finally decide to get my husband to get me to a hospital to just have littlest one and if anything- this next trip- he had better side with me and uphold the fact that this problem absolutely positively will conclude unlike last time which is a rather long story. Now that we aren `t seeing the ignorant lazy boobs that were for this pregnancy- dearest husband of mine hasn `t much choice but to side with me.
Thursday, 31 Jan
Well- just a short time after I got off the computer yesterday- I went into my bathroom to get myself a nice long shower like I usually do every day but I found myself having a bit of a turn of events sort of. Right after I started running my shower water and getting undressed- I noticed kind of a goo like sensation in a certain area. It was a really startling thing for me but low and behold it was part of the mucus. Not something I am all too familiar with feeling at all because my water and that had to be broken after I went into contractions and the hospital with my first son. Suffice to say- I was quick to jump into my shower afterwards to hurry up and get cleaned up. Right after my shower I was very careful as to how I got dry and where I sat to do so. After putting myself back together and making sure I took protective measures- I called a few of my friends and updated them on how things were going and we all pretty much agreed that little one is going to be here pretty soon now. It `s just a matter of time before the mucus falls out the rest of the way and then the water breaks and since I plan to keep protective measures in place for as long as it takes- I just hope that littleest one will come very soon. May not be the most pleasant of updates- but it `s news thus far and who knows- maybe in a couple of days baby boy will be here.
Friday, 1 Feb
Well.....1:00 am Friday morning now. The last day of my 38th week so to speak and quite a bit has changed in just a few days- mostly the newest signs. Come saturday I `ll be into the 39th week- pretty much the last week of pregnancy in general in accordance to to a lot of the OBs where I live since nobody really makes it to 40 or 41 lest ` they `re over due. Either way though- I `ve been seeing a lot of highly unusual changes that suggest MY predictions are going to be a little more accurate. Just about everything I `ve been feeling and that has been more than clear cut proof the only thing that I am slightly curious about- despite the serious drop- is the pressure I `ve been feeling down in the cervical region- that in it `s own way leaves me dumbfounded simply because I didn `t have that with my first son. I just never know about things like that but I `m starting to take that as a sign as well.
Monday, 4 Feb
It `s getting close to that time now. I went to lay down in our room last night around 6pm or so to try to relax after a full of false contractions coming on every 18 to 30 minutes or so. I was so tired and worst yet I didn `t eat for a majority of the day thinking that labor was starting. My husband was in the bed room with me watching the super bowl on the TV we have in our room and was doing his best comfort me while I rested. I fell asleep somewhere along the line but it didn `t las through the night. I woke up at 4:30 this morning and felt like I was having a panic attack or something. Since we had our windows and glass door insulted with this stuff that makes the apartment as dark as midnight- I woke my husband up at 5:30 and asked him to pull the insulator off our dining room window so I could calm down. I dunno what it was but I do know that I was pretty freaked out and worried about how I was feeling and suffice it to say- not only has that never happened to me ever- it scared the hell out of me. They say that lots of signs of coming close to having a baby finally tend to manefest in the weirdest of ways and that said signs are never the same- well I have never had homeward signs that made me feel confined or scared a day in my life with the exception of being closterphobic but given our apartment is decently enough sized- I haven `t had that problem. My husband and I figured that I had probably been indoors for a long enough period of time that I was probably about to starting having problems with cabin fever or somethen close enough to it. I wouldn `t have a clue- alls I know is that having gone outside for a short bit as well as having the dining room window uncovered now has helped calm me down quite a bit. I don `t rightly care right now that it leaks like a noodle drainer- I `m just happy to have the light shining through as well as the fact that I can look out when ever I `m not feeling well enough to go outside and when it warms up again I can open the window like I did for a short bit this morning. I just know that I am getting close to having this baby now.
Wednesday, 6 Feb
I `m being induced on Friday at 7:00 AM!!!!! Finally!!!! I `ve been so tired with the false labor and all of the things that have come along with it. I am looking forward to finally having my second little boy. After a rigorous round of appointments all in one day yesterday the 5th and then vomiting soon after I came home because car rides nausiate- One of the doctors from the group where I go called me and told me that I was going to be able to have little one and that he was giving the thumbs up after an ultrasound review and that the stress test looked awesome also and that I was ok as well- that he got an associate to schedule an induction so that I could finally find peace and also so that littlest one could finally enter the the world. In some aspects I `m happy- in others I `m just little bit scared about doing this again but what expecting mom isn `t? I am also trying to be happy that my suffrage with very hard and painful false labor is going to come to an end very shortly. I hope these next few days go by so that over the weekend- me and Junior here can both feel better.
Thursday, 7 Feb
Today is the last day of having to deal with hard mean false labor- nausia and what ever else- Tomorrow is the induction and birth and I can `t wait!
Sunday, 17 Feb
Well folks! This is it- the big news everyone was waiting for: My little guy is finally here. He was Born Friday February 8th 2008 at 4:44 pm. He was 6lbs 4oz and 19.75 long. Nathaniel James is his name and he is doing great!!!!! I went through quite a bit with the induction and labored for right around 7 hours or so. The rest of the story is rather long when it comes to laboring and what I went through so should anyone wish to know- please ask and I will respond through comments on your page back to you. For right now though- I am doing alright and healing up fairly decently and littlest one is getting along good too. We `re both happy to be home and despite to the unruly weather outside- we `re happy to be in a comfy place inside. It `s all good and I am just really happy- I `m not tired any more- I sleep finally and guess what? I eat like a freaken piglette now- Im very happy with that!!!!! No more false labor- No more nausia- No more practically starving!!!! Woo Hoo! I `m Back and I `m back with a vengeance!!!!!!