Pregnancy Journal :: Week 25
4/29/10 :: day 175
Wow! This little dude is extra active this morning! He has been tumbling around in there since I woke up this morning @ 6am, and he is still moving (8:22am) This child loves the left side of my tummy. I mean LOVES!!!
I was having a bit of an upset stomach again this morning. Hoping it was just do to a lack of food. I just chowed down on leftovers from our breakfast/dinner from last night. Yummy…again! That seems to have helped.
Okay, it’s about 10:30am, and I am having some lovely stomach pains again. They seem to be just at the top of my belly (a.k.a. – uterus) They are fairly short in length, but about a 3-4 on a pain scale of 1-10.
The “girls” are crazy itchy today. Since I’m at work I can’t just shove a hand down my shirt and take care of them now can I? I don’t work at that kinda place. What’s a girl to do?
4/30/10 :: day 176
I’ve got a pain in my side like nobody’s business. I believe it’s from gas. I tried taking a lap around the parking lot and doing a few stretches to dislodge the dang thing, but it ain’t moving. AT ALL!
Okay, it’s 10:25am and my side is still hurting. This is going on 2 hours now.
5/1/10 :: day 177
This morning I woke up to sever stomach cramping. I had never felt pain like that before. It was cramping centralized in the front of my abdomen. It was about 7am when it started. The pain woke me from my sleep. I didn’t know what was going on at first. Since I sleep on my side (like I’m supposed to) and I keep my legs bent all night I figured that my muscles were just reacting to that, so I tried to stretch my legs out. That didn’t help a dang bit. Then I just started moaning and rolling about the bed. Derek woke up just long enough to make sure I was okay. He did ask if there was anything he could do, but since I had no clue what was going on I told him “no.”
Next, I tried standing and leaning on the bed while rocking back and forth trying to soothe the pain. At this point the scary words PRE-TERM LABOR flashed through my mind. This couldn’t be happening…could it? I mean I’ve seen what crazy things a pre-term baby faces. Especially at the early gestational age of 25 weeks. I watch 19 Kids and Counting. I’ve seen what poor little Josie has gone through. And that was only the stuff they were allowed to show on TV. So scary. As much as I would love to meet my sweet little baby boy, I would never want my child or any other to suffer through something as awful as that.
Then!!!! I felt it. The gas bubble in my belly, and it occurred to me that I may just need to go #2. So I slowly made it to the bathroom and luckily the gas bubble was right. It was just a case of the poops. 
5/5/10 :: day 181
Today at lunch, both times I stood up from our booth, my lower stomach would cramp and made it a bit difficult to stand up in a timely manner. I’ve never had a c-section, but I imagine this is the same kind (although not as severe) of pain when you try standing up after that kind of surgery.
Last night I woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in my side it lasted about 3 minutes and then just faded away. I wonder what that was?
