and by that I mean I'm down to about 9 weeks to go till my due date (hopefully sooner than that) AND I'm ALMOST THERE in terms of being SICK of being pregnant.
What's really scary though is that this is just the start of when everything comes to a close .. because I'll just keep getting bigger from here on out, more uncomfortable, and probably more tired.
This trimester has also gotten me into this really annoying emotional state... where at least once a week I randomly break down for no reason! The smallest things set me off, like an accidental scratch from a cat ( or maybe it was on purpose, who knows!? ) or watching some baby show (probably should stop watching those), or just out right being achy.
I have so many body aches these days which makes being on my feet for any amount of time tiring, but laying in bed doesn't seem to fix that as I get hip pain easily and have to continually switch which side I'm laying on.
Needless to say, I'm about to my "I'm done " point, and I still have 2 months to go.
On the PLUS side, baby's movements are a lot more frequent now, and although he likes to be active when I'm trying to go to sleep, I like feeling it, it's very reassuring.
Oh and last but not least .. I've started to randomly have dizzy spells and hot flashes.. oh what fun!!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
sciatic nerve pain
So I'm almost at the 3rd trimester mark (one more week to go) and last week I started experiencing some new non-fun pains!! For 2 or 3 days I had really bad sciatic nerve pain in my right butt cheek and all the way down my leg. Then after awhile it switched to my left butt and leg which is where it continues to be ..even as I write this. I mentioned this to my doctor last week when I went in for a check up and she said if it's really nagging me I can take Tylenol at night just to get some sleep. I am trying to avoid all unnecessary medication though, so I haven't gone that route yet.
I visited my chiropractor today, who is great. She specializes in family care and knows a lot about pregnancy adjustments. She's also training to be a doula.. so she is aware of the changes your body goes through during pregnancy. She gave me some exercises to do to stretch the muscles in your lower back and butt area.. and while painful when I tried them did seem to help overall.
All these aches and pains really make me almost resentful of pregnancy, but I know that " what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" or something like that.. and I'm positive the end will justify the means. But that doesn't mean I don't get emotional .. I had a day last week where I was just fed up. I woke up with bad sciatic pain and was just tired. So pretty much anything I got frustrated with that whole day set me off on a crying spree.. I was a mess.
I hope that I don't have too many days like that from now till the end because it was sort of exhausting and I felt really bad for even feeling negative about it.
Here's hoping for a manageable next 3 months ..
I visited my chiropractor today, who is great. She specializes in family care and knows a lot about pregnancy adjustments. She's also training to be a doula.. so she is aware of the changes your body goes through during pregnancy. She gave me some exercises to do to stretch the muscles in your lower back and butt area.. and while painful when I tried them did seem to help overall.
All these aches and pains really make me almost resentful of pregnancy, but I know that " what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" or something like that.. and I'm positive the end will justify the means. But that doesn't mean I don't get emotional .. I had a day last week where I was just fed up. I woke up with bad sciatic pain and was just tired. So pretty much anything I got frustrated with that whole day set me off on a crying spree.. I was a mess.
I hope that I don't have too many days like that from now till the end because it was sort of exhausting and I felt really bad for even feeling negative about it.
Here's hoping for a manageable next 3 months ..
Saturday, April 17, 2010
.... pregnancy!
So I know I haven't updated this in forever.. but now that I don't have a job, I can't say I have much to be annoyed with ...
The one thing I can be annoyed with right now though, is PREGNANCY!
Yes, I am pregnant with our first soon-to-be son! I'm a little over half way to the due date at this point, and every day brings seemingly new challenges in the journey.
Here is the start of a list of things about being pregnant that annoy me :)
1) SLEEPING! It's the worst..
I knew from the get-go that I would have to eventually learn to sleep on my side (instead of stomach which is my normal position) so I started early trying to learn this. I was okay with it at first, but now that I'm getting larger in the stomach region everything seems to press downward! (gravity is a bitch) As a result, whichever side I'm laying on starts aching, so then I have to roll over. Which causes me to wake up because I have to have a pillow propping up one leg, or between my legs, so when I have to roll over I have to physically move that pillow from one side to the other.. ugh! Needless to say I don't sleep all that well at night, which I think contributes to my fatigue (on top of just regular pregnancy fatigue) during the day.
2) SEX! or rather .. "what is sex??" I don't know about other pregnant folk, but it has be so infrequent that if I ponder it too much I'm depressed. My loving hubby is being amazingly patient about it, and that makes me feel almost more guilty. I don't know why it doesn't interest me all that much, I suppose some of it is fear of the unknown?? If anyone has thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them.
3) RANDOM ACHES & PAINS! Every day I wake up something new or different seems to ache. Most days its my very lower back... especially if I haven't stretched before getting out of bed. But also, starting around 19 weeks, I started experiencing round ligament pain. At first it was almost debilitating to just get around, and I thought something was truly wrong. But it slowly improved to be only annoying on the days I do too much physical activity.. but finding what is "too much" has also been a learning experience (it seems to change all the time)
4) Pregnancy Brain - which for me hasn't been all that bad, but I do find myself forgetting things that I wouldn't normally or just feeling a bit clueless about a situation. This woman at a store even said she could tell I was pregnant by the look on my face of utter confusion, hahaha.
The best way I can describe it , is just a sort of cloud that impedes your ability to process everything normally or quickly. Let's hope this improves after baby arrives, otherwise I'll be in trouble. (probably good I don't have a job right now)
5) .. (I found a new one) - ALLERGIES! - I think a lot of people, my hubby included, have been having abnormally annoying allergy symptoms this spring, I think its due to the fact that it got really warm fast and everything bloomed all at once instead of slowly! In any case, my allergies and just general nasal comfort has been negatively exacerbated by pregnancy. I only really found that I had allergies at all, a few years ago, when we first adopted our 2 cats. I had never had pets before (due to a sibling that's very allergic and a mother that is semi-opposed), and any seasonal issues I'd had before I never attributed to allergies. But low and behold, I'm allergic to cats, dogs, and the usual tree / pollen/mold items. My allergist said I was a very good candidate for allergy shots, so I've been on that track for about 3 years now. It was working very well .. along with the occasional boost of medication (I prefer Zyrtec-D or Nasonex!). But getting pregnant added whole annoying dimension to the issue, mostly due to the fact that not very many medications are approved for pregnant women, coupled with the fact that I'd like to stay as un-medicated as possible just in case... I am still allowed to get allergy shots, so I think that does help. Mostly though, I just suffer , sniffle and blow my nose, I have good days and bad.. kinda like life!
i'm sure there are more .. I'll keep pondering!
The one thing I can be annoyed with right now though, is PREGNANCY!
Yes, I am pregnant with our first soon-to-be son! I'm a little over half way to the due date at this point, and every day brings seemingly new challenges in the journey.
Here is the start of a list of things about being pregnant that annoy me :)
1) SLEEPING! It's the worst..
I knew from the get-go that I would have to eventually learn to sleep on my side (instead of stomach which is my normal position) so I started early trying to learn this. I was okay with it at first, but now that I'm getting larger in the stomach region everything seems to press downward! (gravity is a bitch) As a result, whichever side I'm laying on starts aching, so then I have to roll over. Which causes me to wake up because I have to have a pillow propping up one leg, or between my legs, so when I have to roll over I have to physically move that pillow from one side to the other.. ugh! Needless to say I don't sleep all that well at night, which I think contributes to my fatigue (on top of just regular pregnancy fatigue) during the day.
2) SEX! or rather .. "what is sex??" I don't know about other pregnant folk, but it has be so infrequent that if I ponder it too much I'm depressed. My loving hubby is being amazingly patient about it, and that makes me feel almost more guilty. I don't know why it doesn't interest me all that much, I suppose some of it is fear of the unknown?? If anyone has thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them.
3) RANDOM ACHES & PAINS! Every day I wake up something new or different seems to ache. Most days its my very lower back... especially if I haven't stretched before getting out of bed. But also, starting around 19 weeks, I started experiencing round ligament pain. At first it was almost debilitating to just get around, and I thought something was truly wrong. But it slowly improved to be only annoying on the days I do too much physical activity.. but finding what is "too much" has also been a learning experience (it seems to change all the time)
4) Pregnancy Brain - which for me hasn't been all that bad, but I do find myself forgetting things that I wouldn't normally or just feeling a bit clueless about a situation. This woman at a store even said she could tell I was pregnant by the look on my face of utter confusion, hahaha.
The best way I can describe it , is just a sort of cloud that impedes your ability to process everything normally or quickly. Let's hope this improves after baby arrives, otherwise I'll be in trouble. (probably good I don't have a job right now)
5) .. (I found a new one) - ALLERGIES! - I think a lot of people, my hubby included, have been having abnormally annoying allergy symptoms this spring, I think its due to the fact that it got really warm fast and everything bloomed all at once instead of slowly! In any case, my allergies and just general nasal comfort has been negatively exacerbated by pregnancy. I only really found that I had allergies at all, a few years ago, when we first adopted our 2 cats. I had never had pets before (due to a sibling that's very allergic and a mother that is semi-opposed), and any seasonal issues I'd had before I never attributed to allergies. But low and behold, I'm allergic to cats, dogs, and the usual tree / pollen/mold items. My allergist said I was a very good candidate for allergy shots, so I've been on that track for about 3 years now. It was working very well .. along with the occasional boost of medication (I prefer Zyrtec-D or Nasonex!). But getting pregnant added whole annoying dimension to the issue, mostly due to the fact that not very many medications are approved for pregnant women, coupled with the fact that I'd like to stay as un-medicated as possible just in case... I am still allowed to get allergy shots, so I think that does help. Mostly though, I just suffer , sniffle and blow my nose, I have good days and bad.. kinda like life!
i'm sure there are more .. I'll keep pondering!
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