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!!!
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