Oh I am fed up of being pregnant! It's wonderful and life affirming and all that and I do want baby to be fully cooked, but to fast forward to the birth would be marvellous. Well, slightly after the birth ideally. The will-we-both-make-it??!!!! fear is weighing more frequently and I am just soooooo uncomfortable.
Also, I'd like to meet my daughter, I'm getting impatient for that too. I know the time will fly and I must enjoy the last weeks I will ever be pregnant, as well as enjoying the time to snooze and potter round the house. But...
Heartburn is now constant. Walking is the only thing that relieves it and the old pelvis makes that impossible. Pelvis was v sore today, quite probably due to walking further yesterday.
Cough is more frequent. Relieved by inhaler. Not sure how good that is for baby, I am assured it is ok.
General pain from tiny limbs battling for space with ribs etc is getting more or less constant, and urinary frequency is more like urinary perpetuity. The upside of that is that there is never a risk of leakage as emptying will always have just happened. Sigh. So glamorous.
September is nearly here. I have been looking to September since January. We are so very close. I can do it. I don't need to panic.
It is scary.
NB: these thoughts are triggered by some indications that baby may be ready to appear. Nothing concrete such as a show or waters breaking, but niggly things that make me think, hmm. Things that didn't happen with the twins. Loose bowels, backache, leaky nipples, excessive tightening... Could it be? Probably not, but I'm noting it for posterity.
Showing posts with label pelvic pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pelvic pain. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 August 2011
Friday, 19 August 2011
Calm and clear
Baby has been most calm today, which naturally makes me panic. There have been usual stirrings as per text book non-hyper foetuses, and her heartbeat is as normal. 32-34 beats in 15 seconds, which is what it has been since ever I first counted. So no real need to panic, but I do.
I am extraordinarily tired today, I actually slept most of last night - aside from being woken up for snorting which nearly resulted in a broken leg of husband - and still flaked out for another couple of hours during the day. It is marvellous to be able to have that time, school does occupy the children effectively and longly. I am acutely aware of the time I won't have once baby arrives, so I am well and truly relishing maternity leave as it should be.
Although I do have a fair bit to do around the house, but a potter here and a potter there is getting me there. The BHF are collecting the old telly, a dressing table and chair (currently occupying the space where the cot will go) on Tuesday and hopefully I can foist some books upon them as well. At some point between now and baby being about 2/3 months old, we ideally need to rehome the gigantic tv unit so we can accommodate a dining table and playpen in the living room. And at some point early next year we shall do the moving house thing.
Pelvis sore again as I had to walk a fair distance to the school from the car as I was a little late to the school. I do need to arrive super sharp so as to get close. I didn't take the crutches as they slow me down and that was probably an error. Sitting down for a while on my magic cushion has helped as usual though, all is not lost. A quiet day required tomorrow though.
I am extraordinarily tired today, I actually slept most of last night - aside from being woken up for snorting which nearly resulted in a broken leg of husband - and still flaked out for another couple of hours during the day. It is marvellous to be able to have that time, school does occupy the children effectively and longly. I am acutely aware of the time I won't have once baby arrives, so I am well and truly relishing maternity leave as it should be.
Although I do have a fair bit to do around the house, but a potter here and a potter there is getting me there. The BHF are collecting the old telly, a dressing table and chair (currently occupying the space where the cot will go) on Tuesday and hopefully I can foist some books upon them as well. At some point between now and baby being about 2/3 months old, we ideally need to rehome the gigantic tv unit so we can accommodate a dining table and playpen in the living room. And at some point early next year we shall do the moving house thing.
Pelvis sore again as I had to walk a fair distance to the school from the car as I was a little late to the school. I do need to arrive super sharp so as to get close. I didn't take the crutches as they slow me down and that was probably an error. Sitting down for a while on my magic cushion has helped as usual though, all is not lost. A quiet day required tomorrow though.
Thursday, 18 August 2011
A view to the future
Oh dear. A many ailment and excessive foetal hiccup worry related night meant I was wide awake from 3-5 am. And so 7.30 came around and it was time to get up, get the boys ready for school and get them and me out of the house in a decent state. Living dead is pretty accurate as to how I was. This is a mild hint as to what it will be like when baby arrives, except there will be a baby to cater for also.
Aiiieeeeee!!
Pelvis watch: it is a LOT better. In the last week I have only needed to use my crutches once and that was after a lengthy time in the car. I am coping with the school run sans crutches and this makes me most pleased. Should baby engage, I may be virtually immobile, but for now, it ok. There's a large array of things I just don't do, bending and walking related mostly, so I guess rest is the key, but it does seem to have eased. Walking hurts so I simply don't walk very far, and when I do, I rest until it stops hurting. Being a cumulative type of hurt, that keeps it in check.
Other symptoms: boobies are going daft again, very sore. I did manage to procure half price proper maternity bras just now though so that should help. I've been wearing sports bras to date and they're not that comfortable any more even with extenders, but I didn't really want to spend lots of cash on something that will last two months at best. Mothercare's sale saved the day.
I seem to have a 45 minute bladder capacity. Which is a right pain, both literally (the sit/stand action hurts) and in terms of planning never to be far from a toilet.
I have decided to make best use of this maternity leave time by, erm, resting. Yes, I have lots of house/baby/nesting things to do, but I can't realistically do more than an hour or two and it does make more sense to do that after school as I need to be awake and relatively interactive anyway.
And so to snooze...
Aiiieeeeee!!
Pelvis watch: it is a LOT better. In the last week I have only needed to use my crutches once and that was after a lengthy time in the car. I am coping with the school run sans crutches and this makes me most pleased. Should baby engage, I may be virtually immobile, but for now, it ok. There's a large array of things I just don't do, bending and walking related mostly, so I guess rest is the key, but it does seem to have eased. Walking hurts so I simply don't walk very far, and when I do, I rest until it stops hurting. Being a cumulative type of hurt, that keeps it in check.
Other symptoms: boobies are going daft again, very sore. I did manage to procure half price proper maternity bras just now though so that should help. I've been wearing sports bras to date and they're not that comfortable any more even with extenders, but I didn't really want to spend lots of cash on something that will last two months at best. Mothercare's sale saved the day.
I seem to have a 45 minute bladder capacity. Which is a right pain, both literally (the sit/stand action hurts) and in terms of planning never to be far from a toilet.
I have decided to make best use of this maternity leave time by, erm, resting. Yes, I have lots of house/baby/nesting things to do, but I can't realistically do more than an hour or two and it does make more sense to do that after school as I need to be awake and relatively interactive anyway.
And so to snooze...
Friday, 5 August 2011
Up and down.
I seem to have noticed a pattern. When my pelvis hurts a lot, my ribs don't. When my ribs hurt a lot, my pelvis is eased. The rib pain is actually more uncomfortable as it is accompanied by severe indigestion, and doesn't go away whatever I do. Although the pelvis pain is much worse, I have means to relieve that and if I don't have to walk anywhere, I'm ok.
Anyways, I assume baby is shifting higher and lower, or turning, or something, which is what affects the location of the discomfort. She is still about half the size she will be at term, so I guess I'll be mighty sore by then, possibly high and low simultaneously. Oh, the joys.
I may add that any relief of the pelvic pain vanishes upon leaving the house and doing any walking at all. Very sore again, and walking is still sore on an indigestion day even if sitting is easier.
I'm still big, as I was told today. $$>>€}^]€\!}+~!!! Why comment? What's the point of saying it again and again? Does it mean, oh you must be further on, or oh you are a fatto, or oh you must be having a massive baby???? I've been consistently the same amount big and it's really doing my head in whenever anyone says. I'm not abnormally big - like I was with the twins. I'm not fat anywhere else, you get a LOT of fat arses in the third trimester. So, comments are pointless. There is a range of ok, and I am within it. Today's was at the end of a discussion/monologue from me as to why I want a caesarean, ending with "you are big though" from chief big bump watcher, so I'm not sure if that was a reference to the unlikelihood of elephantine child fitting through my waif-like* pelvis or not.
*I wasn't skinny btw, I was about 2lb over the normal weight range. Not exactly vast, but not skinny. I stopped dieting when I was 7lb within the range, then put on 9lb over the next year and a bit.
On the caesarean thing, I am feeling a little narked at the insinuation that only childbirth is real pain. In an obtuse way I almost want to feel it so I can say, actual that is, or isn't, akin to needing two years of tramadol for a neck injury or the shooting pain of toothache. There's something awful about pain that's present day after day after day after day and labour is short lived, even a ridiculously long labour is a few days.
I fully sympathise with men, although they are wusses. My hubby had a kidney infection last year and was howling in pain, convinced he was dying. He whimpered to me, UTI veteran, "is this what you have?" to which the answer is yes, frequently. I still maintain an abscess in my tooth was the sorest thing I have ever experienced, more than the neck or the pelvis or any kidney infection. I'd like to see the "childbirth" brigade talk to an injured soldier. Huh.
Thats me all ranted out.
32 weeks tomorrow, week 33 awaits and we are so nearly there.
AIEEEEEEE!!! I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO!!!!
Note: dissertation abandoned. Stress related, I hope to submit at a later date. I will hear back next week.
Anyways, I assume baby is shifting higher and lower, or turning, or something, which is what affects the location of the discomfort. She is still about half the size she will be at term, so I guess I'll be mighty sore by then, possibly high and low simultaneously. Oh, the joys.
I may add that any relief of the pelvic pain vanishes upon leaving the house and doing any walking at all. Very sore again, and walking is still sore on an indigestion day even if sitting is easier.
I'm still big, as I was told today. $$>>€}^]€\!}+~!!! Why comment? What's the point of saying it again and again? Does it mean, oh you must be further on, or oh you are a fatto, or oh you must be having a massive baby???? I've been consistently the same amount big and it's really doing my head in whenever anyone says. I'm not abnormally big - like I was with the twins. I'm not fat anywhere else, you get a LOT of fat arses in the third trimester. So, comments are pointless. There is a range of ok, and I am within it. Today's was at the end of a discussion/monologue from me as to why I want a caesarean, ending with "you are big though" from chief big bump watcher, so I'm not sure if that was a reference to the unlikelihood of elephantine child fitting through my waif-like* pelvis or not.
*I wasn't skinny btw, I was about 2lb over the normal weight range. Not exactly vast, but not skinny. I stopped dieting when I was 7lb within the range, then put on 9lb over the next year and a bit.
On the caesarean thing, I am feeling a little narked at the insinuation that only childbirth is real pain. In an obtuse way I almost want to feel it so I can say, actual that is, or isn't, akin to needing two years of tramadol for a neck injury or the shooting pain of toothache. There's something awful about pain that's present day after day after day after day and labour is short lived, even a ridiculously long labour is a few days.
I fully sympathise with men, although they are wusses. My hubby had a kidney infection last year and was howling in pain, convinced he was dying. He whimpered to me, UTI veteran, "is this what you have?" to which the answer is yes, frequently. I still maintain an abscess in my tooth was the sorest thing I have ever experienced, more than the neck or the pelvis or any kidney infection. I'd like to see the "childbirth" brigade talk to an injured soldier. Huh.
Thats me all ranted out.
32 weeks tomorrow, week 33 awaits and we are so nearly there.
AIEEEEEEE!!! I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO!!!!
Note: dissertation abandoned. Stress related, I hope to submit at a later date. I will hear back next week.
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Getting there
Hmm. My pelvis doesn't hurt so badly. Today I stayed in all day - lots of dissertation written, yay me! - until 11pm when I popped into tesco for some lunch things for tomorrow. It didn't hurt too much and when I think about it, it's not been agony for a while. I read somewhere that PGP can ease off a bit after 30 weeks so maybe it's better. Or maybe by not walking anywhere much at all, and much cushion using, it's just not had the cumulative pain building up. The pain is definitely worse the more I do, so by not doing the walking/stair climbing etc, I should theoretically be ok.
School back in two weeks, we'll find out then for sure.
In other news, today a kindly friend brought me her daughter's newborn clothes etc. 4 bin bags full of gorgeous tiny pink sleepsuits and what not. I did coo over them, especially the Christmas ones.
Little baby at Christmas, I can't wait! My big babies were a week off their first birthday by their first Christmas so were past the looking adorable in ridiculous attire stage. Still adorable, less Anne Geddes like.
We are doing well for stuff.
Cot: at friend's house, needs new mattress
Buggy/carseat/carrycot: in shop, requires payment and collection
Bouncy chair: promised by aunt
Infant rocker: at friend's house
Baby bath: at friend's house
Steriliser: in loft
Changebag: in wardrobe
Changing unit: shelf part in loft, chest part requires replacement for boys.
Clothes: now sorted, also bedding and wrap-to-carry-baby-sling-thing
Changemat: got
Toys: got
Bumbo: at aunt's house
Playpen: at aunt's house
Stairgate: behind bedroom door for no good reason.
Is that all?
We need to get:
Boys' new chest
Cot mattress
Bottles, bottle brush, dishwasher basket, second kettle
Bath support
Plus later we need a highchair and maybe other stuff. Santa can sort that.
That's not a lot. We also need to get the rooms sorted and swapped over.
What we don't need is gifts, but people are unfailingly generous when it comes to babies. Sigh. And I know fine well I'd be right stroppy if they didn't. Oops.
Boots tokens for make up. That'd be nice :-)
School back in two weeks, we'll find out then for sure.
In other news, today a kindly friend brought me her daughter's newborn clothes etc. 4 bin bags full of gorgeous tiny pink sleepsuits and what not. I did coo over them, especially the Christmas ones.
Little baby at Christmas, I can't wait! My big babies were a week off their first birthday by their first Christmas so were past the looking adorable in ridiculous attire stage. Still adorable, less Anne Geddes like.
We are doing well for stuff.
Cot: at friend's house, needs new mattress
Buggy/carseat/carrycot: in shop, requires payment and collection
Bouncy chair: promised by aunt
Infant rocker: at friend's house
Baby bath: at friend's house
Steriliser: in loft
Changebag: in wardrobe
Changing unit: shelf part in loft, chest part requires replacement for boys.
Clothes: now sorted, also bedding and wrap-to-carry-baby-sling-thing
Changemat: got
Toys: got
Bumbo: at aunt's house
Playpen: at aunt's house
Stairgate: behind bedroom door for no good reason.
Is that all?
We need to get:
Boys' new chest
Cot mattress
Bottles, bottle brush, dishwasher basket, second kettle
Bath support
Plus later we need a highchair and maybe other stuff. Santa can sort that.
That's not a lot. We also need to get the rooms sorted and swapped over.
What we don't need is gifts, but people are unfailingly generous when it comes to babies. Sigh. And I know fine well I'd be right stroppy if they didn't. Oops.
Boots tokens for make up. That'd be nice :-)
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
To sit
Today we went to the cinema, for the much anticipated Cars 2. Which was ace, incidentally.
I took a cushion with me, having established that sitting is painful. Lo and behold: it works. I'm not entirely convinced how a) I feel bruised rather than misaligned or b) how the pain is alleviated by cushioning, but it stops the sitting pain. So meals out may be back on the menu, and driving on a cushion proved to be comfortable again, which it wasn't.
The humble cushion. I'm not sure why I haven't tried it before, I've had the cushions/chair/footstool combo working for some weeks now, and that appears to allow "resetting" of the old pelvis.
Now it is 1am and sleep is not looking likely. For only the second time, I have this crazy cough/heartburn thing. The heartburn I am more used to, sometimes it is so bad I have to be upright or the burning hurts too much. When I was in late pregnancy with the twins I was guzzling gaviscon constantly, so this is something expected. But the cough is weird. It's not like a normal cough, although it does feel chesty. There is nothing much written about it in books or online, so I'm a bit lost as to what and why. General why: lungs are squashed. Specific why and what to do about it: nada. A friend of mine had the cough in late pregnancy so I shall have to question her. If I remember correctly, she was utterly miserable with it and could do nothing for it. Ah well. Maybe she discovered something and didn't mention. Don't know, can hope. Last time I think using my inhaler (for asthma) helped but I'm a bit twitchy about using that as I know it also dilates blood vessels as well as airways. Although you'd think the coughing and subsequent/causative breathlessness can't be good for baby or me. I think it's time for the inhaler.
I am guessing the heartburn and cough are down to excess movement from baby today. She went daft through most of the film, the noise presumably disturbed or stimulated her, and she continued to wriggle for most of the rest of the day.
Unpleasant side effect of unpleasant symptom: pelvic floor is not up to excessive coughing. Yuk. The level of ick in pregnancy is endless.
I took a cushion with me, having established that sitting is painful. Lo and behold: it works. I'm not entirely convinced how a) I feel bruised rather than misaligned or b) how the pain is alleviated by cushioning, but it stops the sitting pain. So meals out may be back on the menu, and driving on a cushion proved to be comfortable again, which it wasn't.
The humble cushion. I'm not sure why I haven't tried it before, I've had the cushions/chair/footstool combo working for some weeks now, and that appears to allow "resetting" of the old pelvis.
Now it is 1am and sleep is not looking likely. For only the second time, I have this crazy cough/heartburn thing. The heartburn I am more used to, sometimes it is so bad I have to be upright or the burning hurts too much. When I was in late pregnancy with the twins I was guzzling gaviscon constantly, so this is something expected. But the cough is weird. It's not like a normal cough, although it does feel chesty. There is nothing much written about it in books or online, so I'm a bit lost as to what and why. General why: lungs are squashed. Specific why and what to do about it: nada. A friend of mine had the cough in late pregnancy so I shall have to question her. If I remember correctly, she was utterly miserable with it and could do nothing for it. Ah well. Maybe she discovered something and didn't mention. Don't know, can hope. Last time I think using my inhaler (for asthma) helped but I'm a bit twitchy about using that as I know it also dilates blood vessels as well as airways. Although you'd think the coughing and subsequent/causative breathlessness can't be good for baby or me. I think it's time for the inhaler.
I am guessing the heartburn and cough are down to excess movement from baby today. She went daft through most of the film, the noise presumably disturbed or stimulated her, and she continued to wriggle for most of the rest of the day.
Unpleasant side effect of unpleasant symptom: pelvic floor is not up to excessive coughing. Yuk. The level of ick in pregnancy is endless.
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Sore, tired, sore, tired
Gah. Very sore today, the daily swimming lessons at the pool with lots of steps, not being able to use crutches and immense heat is getting to me. Painfully. Also, we went to Pizza Hut for tea and I can safely say that I won't be eating out again in a hurry. Ouchie! Pelvis v v sore when I sit down for a prolonged time, unless it's on my cushioned chair of cushionness.
This isn't a special chair, it's a regular Ikea Poang, with a huge fluffy cushion on top. Seated comfort, but only in conjunction with my feet raised on a similar huge fluffy cushion on a foot stool. The feet up position seems to help as much as the cushioning. Sigh.
New excruciating pain today: my
right nipple is on fire. Extremely sore and sensitive. Additional boobie problem, my bras (newly purchased jumbo sports bras no less) are all suddenly too tight round my back. I guess my ribs have expanded, I need some bra expanders. Debenhams sell them, I need to get me to Debenhams. Easier said than done unfortunately as it is in the middle of the pedestrianised high street.
Which reminds me of a nark. Some councils issue temporary blue badges for pregnant ladies with pelvic pain. I currently have to drive to places I wouldn't dream of taking the car, because I can't walk far enough. I also need to get parked close to where I want to be, and I need a reasonable sized space. A temporary badge would allow me disabled parking privileges and also free parking. I object to paying £1 to park 500 yards from my home while infinitely more mobile people than I park willy nilly. Fife Council issue temporary badges for people who have a temporary condition that is expected to last more than 12 months. Thank you Fife Council! I may complain, I probably won't. If I can find someone to email I might.
I'm not enjoying it today. Even the kicks are predominantly painful over amazing. Oh to be at 39 weeks...
This isn't a special chair, it's a regular Ikea Poang, with a huge fluffy cushion on top. Seated comfort, but only in conjunction with my feet raised on a similar huge fluffy cushion on a foot stool. The feet up position seems to help as much as the cushioning. Sigh.
New excruciating pain today: my
right nipple is on fire. Extremely sore and sensitive. Additional boobie problem, my bras (newly purchased jumbo sports bras no less) are all suddenly too tight round my back. I guess my ribs have expanded, I need some bra expanders. Debenhams sell them, I need to get me to Debenhams. Easier said than done unfortunately as it is in the middle of the pedestrianised high street.
Which reminds me of a nark. Some councils issue temporary blue badges for pregnant ladies with pelvic pain. I currently have to drive to places I wouldn't dream of taking the car, because I can't walk far enough. I also need to get parked close to where I want to be, and I need a reasonable sized space. A temporary badge would allow me disabled parking privileges and also free parking. I object to paying £1 to park 500 yards from my home while infinitely more mobile people than I park willy nilly. Fife Council issue temporary badges for people who have a temporary condition that is expected to last more than 12 months. Thank you Fife Council! I may complain, I probably won't. If I can find someone to email I might.
I'm not enjoying it today. Even the kicks are predominantly painful over amazing. Oh to be at 39 weeks...
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