Bloody show!

Yep! It was definitely the bloody show. I went back to bed last night around 330/400am and slept well- probably slept through any contractions. I slept on my left side with no problems... listened to my hypnobirthing track and rocked in the glider and then listened to it again in bed. I slept right thru everything. I then switched sides to sleep on my right side for a bt and when I did I got a contraction. Ouch. Just menstrual cramp like around 6ish... got up about 5 minutes ago (its now around 730) to use the bathroom during another contraction and had to poopy. And before I pooped and after I peed I wiped and there was the bloody show! YEAY!!! It's happening!!! We are definitely in the early stages of labor! This is wonderful!

I wonder if eating that pineapple worked! lol? Who knows! But I ate pineapple yesterday and that seems to be right after eating that the contractions started! :) Or it could be just good timing. That's probably more like it. lol. I also drank organic pregnancy tea and red raspberry leaf tea to help get things started around 6pm last night. Maybe that helped too. Or maybe it's all a coincidence since I am around 40 weeks and 3 days going.

Anyway- the bloody show is just exactly like a light period. Stringy and red and pink and mucousy- no big whoop. Haven't seen a period in 10 months and can't say I'm looking forward to those again. :\

Husband still has pink eye. Noooo!!! :( Please please heal up today or tomorrow!!! I need you hubby!!! I need you to be ok to hold your baby too!!!!!!

XOXOXOX~~

Cramping and bloody show???

It's about 2am on Sunday September 25 technically. I just woke up from a contraction (I think) and headed to the bathroom to pee... on the way there (a very short distance mind you) I noticed a crampy feeling and after peeing and wiping I noticed there was a very small bit of brownish pink color to the discharge.... what the? I wiped again and more of the same! MOre pink than brown... but a close mixture of the two! Is this the bloody show? Did I just loose or am I losing my mucous plug? I looked in the toilet and there was a defintie amount of brownish pinksih discharge in the toilet on the bottom... so SOMETHING is defintely happening to my cervix right now!!! Exciting!!!! This is probably it then! This is the start of early labor. I think! lol...

Oh brother and did I mention my poor poor husband has freaking pink eye?! Yep. OUt of hte blue just like that... for no reason at all.. his poor eyes... both are infected and he looks like a scary monester... a beautiful and handsome and scary little monster... the poor thing is so upset and beside himself because he doesnt want to give the baby or me pink eye and all he wants to do is hold his little baby when she is born and help me with labor and delivery. Now we dont know what the deal will be if he has pink eye in both eyes!! What a disaster... I hope baby hangs on for a few more days... hang in there baby! Wait til daddy is a little better!!

Oh my poor hubby!!!! Please God HEAL HIS EYES TONIGHT!!!! XOXOXX!!!!!

Is it hammer time?

So this morning I got up around 557am and decided to go sit in my rocking glider in the nursery for a bit. My hips hurt and my nose was congested and I just couldnt get comfortable flipping and flopping in bed trying to find a side-lying position that didn't ache for more than 10 minutes. I must have rocked or glided myself to sleep in the babies room because right around 6am I had a definite contraction. My entire stomach balled up very tightly.... more so than it ever has with the braxton hicks contractions where the stomach got hard and pretty much just felt like my forehead. Now I had a definite balling up! I could see it AND feel it. Excellent!!! I timed it the best way I know how to (which is very confusing by the way) using my chronograph watch (which was purchased specifically for this purpose) and the next one came around 6:20... twenty minutes apart! Wow- could this be the start of early labor??

Please God I certainly hope so. Today is Padre Pio's feast day and I thought wouldn't it be EXCELLENT to be born on this blessed day! IN the meantime... I was up and about walking around drinking water and took a bath... I got another contraction (I'm pretty sure I think)in the bathtub that again was about 20 minutes apart from the last one I had. (I think- again this isn't precise its kind of hard to tell when they start and end and when to time it) :\

Anyway- trying not to get too excited as this could be SOMETHING or it could totally be NOTHING. Im really hoping it is something though... but I'm also betting that if it IS something - probably not going to give birth today on Padre Pio's feast day. :\ This might be one of those really long labors that goes into the weekend.

ON that note... we have a fetal non-stress test scheduled for today. Bah. That is at 230pm and I'm not sure I want to go. :\ I dont want to get suckered in to staying there or being admitted.. but then again- it would be good to know baby is alright too and not in distress... though really- there really is not even a sliver of indication that she would be so again it feels superfluous to go to this appointment... less intervention the better in my book.. but I also don't want to be stupid especially with a history of still birth and miscarriages in my family. You know what I mean?

It's about 15 minutes from the last contraction... I hope I get another one soon... I hope they start getting closer together and not farther apart!

ALso, it's hard to tell if it's a contraction or the baby just moving about now. She likes to curl up in there with her butt up by my breast bone.

Also, I am starving and don't know what to eat!!! I had a snickers bar (a medium sized one) and a reese's cup at 3am... hehe... and then I had a muffin (a really small fiber one muffin) and a soft tortilla with cheese and spinach on it a few minutes ago... Still- ravenous... drinking tea and drinking water in the meantime...


Oh I also wanted to mention that last night... or yesterday earl morning I woke up and had a HORRIBLE case of itchies on my belly button area... I can't tell but it looks like maybe I have 5 ore 6 very small reddish stretch marks around my belly button. Yuck! But they could just be little scars that are stretched out from ingrown hairs I have yanked in the past. Hard to tell, my money is on the stretch marks though. Still- if that's the only place I get them- I am lucky!!! I will take it! Plus they will fade to a silverly white eventually and you won't be able to see them really so who cares. Also- those are really the only ones I noticed and they are not any bigger than a pinky finger nail in length and about the width of a toothpick. So please.

The carpal tunnel is really bad all day every day in my right arm and sometimes in my left. I get relief by sleeping iwth my arm on a pillow at night but during the day I have to get up and walk around and that usually makes it subside.

My feet were blown up like balloons yesterday. Ew! HAHAA- gross! Didn't hurt just looked bad. They are back to normal this morning after sleeping and elevating them.

I went and got a pedicure with mom earlier this week on my first or second due date and got a haircut yesterday on my last due date. I'm all spruced up and ready to meet my little darling angle baby girl!!!


The house is all in order and looks fabulous in our fall decor. I still need some small pumpkins for the mantle piece and three pumpkins (mommy daddy baby) for the front porch. Debating getting those NOW or making that an errand to run with the baby in a few weeks...

The yard looks GORGEOUS - hubby really out did himself with pruning everything back and making everything look storybook pretty! He trimmed all the hedges and bushes and cut down brush and cut back the bushes that were overgrown and did the lawn... it looks soo pretty!

I still can't believe we are homeowners and have this beautiful perfect little house all to ourselves... for now! :)

Carpal tunnel killing my right hand so i type with only left hand right now. Not bad! lol... Debating seeing a movie today and telling work I am working from home... or better yet- I might just go in for a bit just to show my face and then leave after an hour or two... I will probably just do that... less hassle and I look like a trooper. =D Beacuse I AM a trooper people! Nothing is going to stop me or keep me down! lol...

ALso, my husband is a DREAM BOAT... oh dear Lord- what a blessing. He is the most tender loving special brilliant amazing person I have ever met in my entire life or previous life!!!! He is just brilliant in every way possible. I wish I knew how to express to him how much I look up to him and admire him. It's amazing to be married to someone that you want to be like! Someone you just worship and adore and are so devoted to. He just rocks my world on so many levels in so many ways and inspires me to be a better person to be the best person- the best version of myself... I have to keep working on that. He is just magic. I'm so in love with him and am so grateful for the opportunity to know him and to bear witness to his life and he to mine. I am remarkably blessed to be his wife. My life is such a treat and a sweet dream now- just the way he wrote it! XOXOXOXX!!!!

Also- it's now about 25 minutes since that last contraction. Drats!! What the!? :( Come on baby! Keep contracting and coming to mommie and daddie... scooch your way out of there please!! Come cuddle with us!! We love and miss you so very much!!!

Maybe tomorrow for sure!!

Check this out...
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/pregnancy-calculator.shtml

That's exciting stuff... My cycles tend to be anywhere from 27 to 32 days... actually seems like every other month one cycle is 27 the next is 32 then back to 27... then back to 32... which would explain why some months I ovulate on day 17 and some months its day 14 or day 19... or even day 21!

Anyway this is the argument I will give for pushing an induction date out to October 6. I will tell them I want 2 weeks from the due date of 9/22 before they can induce me. That's it. It's that simple. I take full responsbility. I will also come in for fetal non-stress tests if necessary but I will not be induced at 10 days past this made-up Sept. 19 due date! Get lost. No way.

Still waiting for baby...

So according to the docs I am now past my due dates of 9/19 and 9/21... but I havent reached or passed my final due date of 9/22 yet... which is the one I am kind of banking on... I know for sure I will go into labor spontaneously over the next several days... maybe Tuesday or Thursday... I feel like this is a T-day baby.... hehe... so either tomorrow the 22nd... tuesday the 27th or thursday the 29th. They also said they want to induce me on the 29th and I really really hope I go naturally before then... Ugh!

Feeling pretty good... lots of braxton hicks now and then that last for 3 or 4 minutes at a time but nothing else really to report... going for walks around neighborhood... tonight we will have sex again.. that will be third time in the last month... and might try nipple stimulation tonight too... or maybe tomorrow.

I am still going into work everyday and my coworkers are going crazy about it... but whatever... I feel up to it and I dont want to sit home being bored out of my mind so I am here and I feel good.

Might try to squeeze in a haircut tonight on the way home...I know I need to grow up. I am mad at myself for being such an egotistical cry baby self centered too. :( wah.

Is baby coming?

Wow here I am now on my first due date and baby isn't budging. I think I might be in early labor? Can't tell. Some random Braxton hicks and tightening of the uterus.

40 weeks

Wow. Here we are at 4O0 weeks! Feeling great even tho I weigh 205lbs! My blood pressure and blood sugar are great. Baby doing great. Feel good. Just some anxiety and overwhelming feelings about labor and delivery and not knowing what to expect pain wise. I just hope I do t come unglued or freak out or lose it. Pretty bad carpal tunnel in right arm. Not sleeping well. Hard tO get comfortable or move around. Very puffy. But very much looking forward to seeing my little baby doll!

Carpal Tunnelllllll- OWWWW!!

Here I am at 39 weeks pregnant. I feel really good except that I now weigh 200lbs! That's 50lbs that I put on - but I have to tell you that it is still ALL BELLY! I look like I have a big beach ball shoved up under my shirt! It's perfectly round and perfectly cute! No complaints. Now with that said- it is really difficult to sit and stand and walk and lay down. Especially because now I have carpal tunnel syndrome in my right arm. It hit me about a week ago and it's just been awful!!! My right arm is CONSTANTLY numb and buzzing. My fingers are numb as I type this. It's just awful. No relief. I sleep on my left side with my right arm up on a pillow at night and that seems to help until I have to switch sides and sleep on my right side for a bit. My thighs still ache something awful but the iron pills are helping with that- though I still have to shake out my legs every night.

Not getting much consistent sleep during the night because I wake up every hour to flip over or to pee and then I feel like a bag of rocks when my feet hit the floor because I am soooo heavy!!!

On a wonderful note- the whole house is in order! We have purchased just about everything we need for baby and the house is really organized now that we have a desk and an office to put everything in. The basement is trashed though from the recent flood - not from the flood but from when the power put out our sump pump. Ugh. So we have to get the basement re-done in the spring..> Still waiting on the insurance guy- its been two weeks!! I bet they are backed up. Fine- but I don't want someone coming by when I am trying to nurse a newborn. :\

I can't believe my due date is ONE WEEK TODAY!!! Next Monday... or Tuesday... or Thursday... lol.. we'll see what happens! Stay tuned!!! :) XXOXOXOX!!! BABBYYYY!!!

38 weeks and 3 days or 38 weeks...close enough!

Carpal Tunnel sucks. Sleeping with right arm on a pillow helps greatly for some reason. I'm huge. Can't wait to meet baby girl. So excited! Lots of big flooding in this area - historic. We up high so we safe and dry. Hubby got job offer yesterday! YEAY!!! we in good shape. he will have month home with me and baby before he starts! what a blessing! everything in place. just a few odds and ends that are insignificant. everything in good order! Did a nice 45 minutes walk around the hood. Feel good!

Ow!! WHY!?? Carpal Tunnel HURTS!!!!

So here I am right around 38 weeks.. according to the docs- I am 38 weeks and 3 days... according to me- I will be 38 weeks tomorrow. At any rate... I am SUFFERING greatly. My entire right arm has been paralyzed with carpal tunnel syndrome for the past several days... before it used to just fall asleep as I slept on my sides... NOW it is numb and buzzing constantly with no relief.. It is excruciating pain. :( I can't take anything for it. My hand is constantly numb and it feels like I have hit my funny bone on my arm repeatedly. Oh dear God please give me some relief. Please ease my carpal tunnel nerves. I believe this is very common in late pregnancy due to the excess water weight and somehow the carpal tunnel nerves get swollen or irritated. I have to look it up. This is terrible.

It is 611am and I am up now. I also had vivid nightmares that were awful and made no sense. I hate this. LOL. AHHHH!!! Just want to REST!!! Please for the love of God- just need some REST with no nightmares and no carpal tunnel syndrome and no aching hips and legs. :( Wahh. Oh dear God my arm!!!!! I've got a heating bag on it and it seems to help a bit.

Seems like it is easing up now. I should probably not be typing on the computer. Doesn't that aggravate it? Also- it is flooding again in our area. Will this rain ever stop? Oy! :P

Achilles tendon, Swollen Feet, Carpal Tunnel, and house problems Oh my!

Oh brother. What a quandary. So much going on I don't know where to start. I guess I will start with my physical health here at 38 weeks. I seem to be gaining weight by the boatload. I went from 193 on August 18 to 197 on Sept. 3... that's like 5 lbs in 2 weeks?! How is that even possible? I'm not eating any more than usual. I've been on a few walks... but mostly I am uncomfortable, exceptionally large, and very tired. I'm almost at 200lbs and I can tell my body can't take much more of this.

On top of that, for the past few weeks I've had excrutiating pain in my achilles tendon whenever I bend over at the waist. Ouch!! Shoots right up through my heel. Common in pregnancy from what I read. Also very common in pregnancy is carpal tunnel syndrome... which has been driving me crazy the past week. Mostly on my right arm... it just starts buzzing. Totally numb and buzzy. My hand and my armpit ... my whole arm from my armpit to my hand. Ugh! Right now my right hand is numb as I type this.

Both of my arms and hands fall asleep when I sleep in bed at night. It's just awful. :( My feet are swelled up constantly like balloons. Ew. And it hurts to walk anywhere for any amount of time. It's all such a pain!

Now- add to all of this - that we just had Hurricane Irene who completed destroyed our finished basement because of a power outage and our sump pumps and b-dry like system not running.... My husband had to tear out all the carpeting in the basement. We lost 2 desks, 4 book cases, a very expensive G4 Mac computer, a very expensive vacuum cleaner, and now our basement looks like shit and is completely unusable. We have hundreds of books EVERYWHERE down there and no where to put them.


Now I am getting WACKY with ideas that our house may be completely infested with black mold. We have moisture problems EVERYWHERE!!!!!! Wet basement, no ventilation in the kitchen, water leaked panels on all of our windows, leaky roof...etc... what a mess... I can see large patches of paint on the walls that the previous owner painted over as well... they are swelled... MOISTURE. I'm seriously going to have a breakdown over here. On top of THAT mess - they are now putting in a gas line near our home for gas drilling?! WTF.

I feel like we got swindled into buying this house and I fucking hate our real estate agent. A sneaky stupid asshole who did not have our best interest in mind- only to sell a house. SURPRISE!!!!

Next house we get is going to be brand new and built by us from scratch or will be a newer spec home with no moisture problems. Cripes for as thorough as I was and as paranoid as I was about buying a home and making sure we didn't get SCREWED in the process- we still got hosed. How naive of us!! How naive to believe the home inspector too. That flaming a-hole. Everybody is so fucking shady. Nobody will return my calls and we never met the seller at closing. It all just figures. F!!!!

Anyway- here we are. Still fucking waiting for the home insurance guy to come and tell us if our basement flooding, spoiled food, and mold removal will be covered.. it's been a week now. 7 fucking days. Now I have to also worry about the HVAC system having mold in it because we had the AC on for 5 hours yesterday and when I came home.. 5 hours later... it REEKED of mold in here again. Fucking fantastic.

I just want to move. We are still locked in for another year with that $8k payout we got with buying the house so if we want to move it won't be for another year anyway... greatttt.... oh well- I'm sure it will be here before we know it. This November will be 2 years at this house... Next November we can put it on the market and move somewhere DRY and bigger... because there is NO ROOM here for another baby after this one.