Pregnancy Journal :: Week 28
5/20/10 :: day 196
Yesterday, Derek and I took the dogs on a walk and during that walk I had the pleasure of experiencing my 1st true set of Braxton Hicks contractions. They weren’t bad, but I could totally tell what was going on. My stomach turned into a rock, and it felt like an expanding balloon was about to burst out of my abdomen. I made Derek feel my belly when it was contracting, because I love sharing these unique moments with him since being a man he will never get to personally experience something like that himself.
We are going to baby class again tonight. Tonight is the big hospital tour. I’m pretty excited about it. Although, I have already been in the hospital’s brand spanking new maternity ward 3 times now visiting friends that recently popped one out. The reason I am still very excited is that I will, this time, get to see the delivery portion of the maternity ward. Each time I have been up there I have only been able to visit the postpartum rooms, since my friends had already given birth. They are going to show us where to check in and where to go tonight. Yipee!
5/25/10 :: day 201
Well, we had Friday off work so Derek and I spent a little time getting some much needed projects done around the house. Later that night we had some close friends over to grill out, and we had a blast. I think the boys had a little too much fun. Sarah and I were heavily involved in baby chatter. Sunday I had to go into work for a few hours and then to a bridal shower. I had a blast at the shower, but work was not so much fun. Seriously…on a Sunday?!? It really wasn’t too bad. We were just testing a system upgrade, so at least it wasn’t a typical work day. The thing that angers me the most though about going into work was that for some reason it caused my back to start hurting. By the time I made it home that evening all I could do was lay on the couch.
My back was still killing me Monday morning when I woke up so I took the day off work. I know it sounds wimpy, but my work chair only makes the pain worse. So, as horrible as it sounds I spent the day on my back. (resting…only resting) The day came and went with no pain relief. I sucked it up today and headed into work.
5/26/10 :: day 202
Yesterday was a day from hell. I kid you not. Just like Sunday and Monday my back was killing me on Tuesday. Sitting in my work chair all day did not help one bit. I took a few walks around my building’s parking lot to ease the pain. There are only 2 positions that don’t cause my back to ache, standing and laying down on my back. Since laying down on my back isn’t an option at work I opted for laps around the parking lot. To be honest, laying flat on my back helps, but the weight of my ever growing child makes it extremely hard to breathe. If I have enough pillows behind my back I can prop myself up and counter act this fat baby in my belly, but that only works on the couch. In bed he still feels like a bowling ball sitting on my chest.
Lucky me, Wrigley decided to start barking @ 4:30am yesterday morning and woke my sleeping beauty butt up. I couldn’t go back to sleep. No wait…that’s incorrect. I fell back asleep about 15 minutes before the alarm went off at 6:00am.
So here was my yesterday. Awake @ 4:30am, up at 6:00am, dreadfully tired, off to work, in a meeting for an hour where I got to sit in the only plastic chair in the room, (because no one offered to let the pregnant lady sit in their big comfy leather chairs…RUDE!), sweated through the entire hour long meeting because someone closed the door and it was terribly hot in the room, cried twice before lunch, ate lunch at my desk because Derek went to lunch with his co-workers, still dealing with back pain, went to another meeting and my key chain broke, got back to my desk and the strap on my brand new dress snapped and I had to leave work early do to a wardrobe malfunction. What a day. I think God broke the strap on my dress on purpose so I could go home and get away from this dreadful day.
After making dinner I plopped down on the couch around 7:00pm and zonked out until 9:30pm. I never take naps during the day….even now that I’m pregnant. So, I must have had a humdinger of a day to have crashed for 2.5 hours. Then, I got ready for bed and crashed hard around 10:00pm. I only woke up once to pee. That shows me that I was still really, really tired, because I ALWAYS have to pee at least twice during the night these days. Almost forgot, I was so out of it when I did finally wake up for my potty break that I accidentally kicked one of the dogs in the head and then ran face first into the closed bedroom door. N-I-C-E!
I just remembered something else about yesterday, while walking to the restroom at work my back felt heavy. That’s the only way I can describe the sensation…heavy. I don’t know what that was all about.
Oh man! I just had about a minute of on and off tiny stabbing pains in my lower abdomen on the right side. I had to get up and walk that one off. It was like someone kept jabbing me with a thick sewing needle over and over. I had to cover my mouth since I am still at work so I wouldn’t shout any words that might get me in trouble.
