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June 2015 Moms
KaLikeAWind
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Daily Symptoms Tuesday 6/23
KaLikeAWind
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How you feeling, ladies? Whether you have had a baby or not, I know you're feeling something! Let's hear it!
Re: Daily Symptoms Tuesday 6/23
As you can probably tell, I couldn't sleep. But I do have to get up in half an hour to get my 'shower' for the day and then some breakfast before checking in at 8. (Its 530am now)
...at least I hope. If I'm correct all my whining the last week and a half has paid off. Been contracting steadily since 3 am. They're REALLY uncomfortable, but I'm just hesitant to believe that this is what all the fuss is about. Don't want to get my hopes up that this is it only to have them dashed.
Good luck to induction ladies today and still thinking of @klkonwi and @mvargas12 and whoever else I'm forgetting because oh goody here comes another one!!!!!!
Wide awake, no contractions and only woke up once in the night to pee. Today was original induction date but moved it a week...crazy to think I could be driving to hosp now.
Wanted to slap half my coworkers yest w/ all the comments. Have an apt this afternoon so at least can leave early and hope something has progressed!
June 25th sounds like a good bday-come on baby boy or girl!!!
Good luck ladies - I love seeing all the birth announcements!
And @Serenamarr !
Joy!!! (Confusion- No idea what happened with the banning, but hoping that it was a random app glitch that happened just after so delivered.)
@klkonwi congratulations!!!!! Thinking of you during your recovery. Praying for quick healing and lots of baby joy to help you through.
@Serenamarr -- I hope it's time!!!!! You got this.
@mellymar -- my due date twin, cat buddy, giffer twin, and fellow nerd... LOVE AND SUPPORT FROM CASA WESTYPET!
I hope you get this before or during your early labor so you know how much I'm thinking of you. You're a rockstar. This is it! You rule, and you're gonna get a baby.
To all my other bumpie friends- thanks for making me feel so loved! I'm loving time with Jack (and the no sleep), and though it was a hard labor and couldn't post my joy/woes for a few days, I have been thinking of you and Internet creeping on you all.
My new doc this time was worried that had happened to me with DD, so he checked my chart. He said if it had, I would be having a cs this time, because if you tear there again you risk permanent or chronic incontinence issues. Yikes!
Glad he's out, now!
P.s. I have gas pains in my abdomen that hurt like, um, something that hurts bad and makes you cry!
Yay to all the babies coming soon! Can't wait.
@klkonwi congratulations!
:x
As for me 4 days out from EDD and really just in pain all over... Back,pelvis, head everything...couldnt sleep bc my bump is soooo sore the skin to the left of my belly button feels like its going to rip open and so everytime at night when i try to move i want to cry...wth!! Well prob just another crampy lazy day for me considering i can barely walk at this point! Okay done with the complaining!
Contractions all day yesterday, but they got down to 6M apart and tapered back off... Woke up on six different occasions last night with cramps that were ranging in intensity from 'Holy Moly' to 'Lord Hammercy' HOWEVER each of them went away shortly after I passed gas.
Still pregnant.
Also, still pregnant.
Otherwise she is low and putting pressure on my sciatic nerve again (yay for butt pain). I'm hanging out with the fur kids and trying to do thank you cards. We go tomorrow for our 39+3 appointment so hopefully we will discuss what the plan is if she decides to be uncooperative.
I love seeing the birth announcements board! Very exciting!!
@klkonwi Congratulations! Hopeful for a speedy recovery!
@mellymar and @serenamarr Good luck. Can't wait for your BAs.
My symptom: Exhaustion.
Tough news today. Due to my severe diastasis of the pubic symphysis sustained during my long labor and delivery (my pelvis separated 4 cm during birth), the orthopedic surgeon told me I have to use a wheelchair at home...for six weeks. Also I will wear a special hip binder to keep my hips together, so hopefully they will seal closed without surgery. I'll have a walker but I'm not supposed to use it except for transfers between the bed and the wheelchair, and the wheelchair and the toilet. Not supposed to weight bear for 6 weeks.
The hardest part is not being able to care for my newborn by myself, not being able to pick him up when he cries... I have to press the call light and have the nurse bring him to me. This was my fifth day in the hospital. Hopefully I'm going home tomorrow. I was so happy to avoid a C Section, but my OB said to me today "it would actually have been better if you'd had a csection. You would have been home already."
Two other things that suck about my condition: I cannot maneuver myself around in bed at all, have to just lay where I'm put, because any kind of twisting or wiggling or turning my body is painful. I don't know how I'll ever be able to sleep. The second thing is the fear that my body will become stiff and weak from being too much in the same positions all the time. I have to give myself a shot of blood thinners once a day to prevent blood clots from the inactivity. I can do that, but the inactivity itself may kill me. I'm worried my muscles will become so stiff and atrophied from disuse, my pain will get worse and worse and I'll get weaker.
I work in the rehab field myself (speech therapy) so all of the adaptive equipment and so on is familiar to me, and I know things like physical therapy and maybe even massage therapy will help. I shouldn't balk at finding myself in the same position of dependency as my clients in the nursing home where I work...after all I got a baby out of it, my future is full of dreams and hopes, and I PROBABLY won't be disabled for life like many of them will be. But other times I compare what I'll be able to do for my baby now with how I envisioned it to be as a healthy active mother, and I feel absolutely pathetic. I also feel terrible because I wanted to give my DH a happy experience of parenthood, prove to him that if wouldn't be as expensive and difficult as he feared, and instead it will be much more expensive and difficult at first than I ever imagined.
Luckily he seems quite protective of Jasper and had a fond look on his face when he sits rocking him...he has started to bond with the little guy too. Now that Jasper's here we would both do absolutely anything for him. I just wish I could do more to lessen the huge burden on my husband, having to perform the bulk of newborn care and care for a disabled wife at the same time, when he was the one who was more fearful and reluctant about parenthood than I was.