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Sunday, 27 July

Been having a hard time lately. Lots of heartburn and braxton-hicks contractions. Last night was real bad, I actually had to consult one of my books with a "real labor vs false labor" chart! Fortunately, every point on the false labor side was the case! Very irregular, in my lower abdomen not back, would lessen with walking or changing positon. It's still pretty scary, given that I'm only in week 31. I think the baby's head has dropped because I'm carrying lower now and I have to pee ALL the time. This is one active little baby. We still don't know what it is, but I have a gut feeling it's a girl. I also have a gut feeling I"m going to deliver early. And heaven knows, the earlier the better (safely), I'm so uncomfortable!!!! But dying to meet my little one!

Friday, 15 August

Well, I'm nearly 34 weeks. I went to the OB the other day and I was told that the baby's head is down and will likely stay that way for the rest of the pregnancy. That was a huge relief, and also helps me understand all the pelvic pressure I've been having lately. Today was especially bad, I feel like I can hardly walk. Sometimes it feels like pins and needles, or numbness...some days it just feels like a knife up there!! It makes me want to reach for some sort of comfort food, but it's such a long journey to the kitchen when you're in pain!!

My girlfriend took a few pictures of me last weekend when she was visiting and sent them to me today. It was such a great day to receive them. Lately I've been feeling very blah....noticing new brown mystery spots in my complexion and wondering if my hair will ever curl again, not to mention just feeling like a big fat fatty fatty...and then I saw the photos. It was the first time I felt pretty in MONTHS! What a gift!

Monday, 1 September

I have been having crazy cravings over the last couple months for those crappy soft serve ice cream cones from McDonalds! Before pregnancy I don't think I had one in years...maybe decades!! They are so gross (BUT TASTE SOOO GOOD!)

Friday, 5 September

Last night was so scary! About 9 pm I started to have sharp painful contractions in my lower abdomen. I didn't think much of it, because I've been having these pains for weeks now. All of a sudden, my back really started getting achey and I had a shooting pain radiate down my left leg. That nearly sent me into panic mode because I've never had that symptom before, and I know it's a sign of true labor. I tried to time my contractions and they were coming fast, about 2 minutes apart, but only lasting for a couple seconds at a time. I called my parents in Arizona and tearfully asked them to pray that this passes, because my husband was still out to sea and wouldn't be back home until Friday night. I was so sure I was going into labor that I packed the rest of my hospital bag, finished up my preregistration paperwork, and started an email to the Ombudsman of my husband's Naval ship. I laid down on a heating pad on the couch and that really seemed to help. My mom called back an hour later to check on me and I told her the pain was subsiding and that I was going to bed. I slept for 7 hours and woke up just fine.

I think the scariest thing was not having my husband here! I'm so ready to have the baby that I don't care about the pain or fear of labor anymore, I just want to make sure I'm not alone when it does happen! I love my Navy life with Robin, but inn times like these, it's very hard to not have a normal life.

I'm 37 weeks tomorrow, and I predict this baby will come before I hit 38. Robin will be home in a few hours, and any time after that is fine by me!!!

Friday, 12 September

37.6 weeks today and found out that I'm 1 cm and 25-50% effaced! Go Baby Go!!

Friday, 19 September

I'm 39 weeks tomorrow and no way did I think that I would still be pregnant by now! This whole last trimester has been difficult and painful! I've had 14 days in a row of false labor...the contractions that come sometimes every 2 minutes apart and last for hours, then nothing! It's so frustrating! I will say that it has taken the fear out of getting contractions now. I feel like the only way I'm really going to trust the real thing is if my water breaks! I hope all these contractions did some work on my cervix!!

Saturday, 20 September

Last night I thought for sure it was showtime. I had contractions for 4 hours and they were very diffrent from what I've been feeling these last two weeks. I felt them in my back and shooting pain from my groin down my legs. The contractions in my abdomen were much more painful too, so I called my husband at work and told him it was time. He got home around 10:30pm and by then, they had become further apart and less painful. He still thought we should go in to the hospital but I was afraid they would pump me full of pitocin or some other drug to get the contractions going again. As much as I want this baby OUT, I really don't want to be chemically induced, so I told him, no let's wait it out a little longer. He went back to work, and I went to bed. I slept about 6 hours without another contraction. I'm completely inconsolable this morning. I just don't think I can bear it another day. Plus everyone is calling me and emailing me constantly to ask if I've had the baby yet. I swear that if I'm ever crazy enough to get pregnant again, I won't tell a soul until after the baby comes, I'll just send out a birth announcement at the end!!

Thursday, 25 September

I had always heard that having a baby means learning patience, but this period before having the baby has been a real test too! As I wrote in my blog the other day, I didn't receive a good progress report the other day at the OB office. I'm not yet 1 cm dilated and not at all effaced like I was told last time. I guess this is the difference between a lady doctor's exam and a big man's hand exam...or maybe she wasn't all that experienced, I don't know. I was told I have a "posterior cervix", and that the baby's head has not yet dropped, but once it does, the cervix will correct and I will start to dilate. It sounds like it can all happen pretty fast, which sounds pretty painful! I've always known I had a tipped uterus, my mother had one too and she delivered both my sister and I vaginally, so I'm hoping for the same. It's hard though when you are just a couple days away from the due date and it doesn't seem like this baby is even close to being born. Ahhhh...patience. There must be a reason why God wants to cook the baby a little longer so I will put my feet up, take a nap perhaps, and wait it out another day.

Sunday, 28 September

Last night I had a dream that an angel came to visit me in my sleep. She whispered in my ear that my water was going to break. As she left, I reached down and noticed my bed was soaked. The contractions came, I went to the hospital and gave birth quickly to a beautiful and healthy baby (sex still unknown!). I woke up at 1 am and I was so pissed off that it was all a dream. I reached underneathe me and it was dry!! I tossed and turned for an hour, then got up and surfed the net until 4am.

I am so miserable right now. I feel nauseous, my hands and feet are swollen and I swear I'm going to scream if my phone rings one more time!

Tuesday, 30 September

3 days overdue. The OB gave me another bad progress report. I have an induction date for Oct 5th. I sure hope I go into labor naturally before then, but it just seems this baby likes it where it is. I know this is all normal, but I feel like my body is failing me.