She's head down, 1cm dilated and 70% effaced (at last weeks appointment). Oh man, am I feeling it. My heartburn hasn't been as bad (also, pepcid AC is made from ambrosia, I have determined. It is amazing.) because she's lower, but she still stretches and kicks a lot. Sometimes it's very painful.
I had a -bad- night last week, thursday night/friday morning. I'd been done with my UTI medication for a week, and all of a sudden that night, after about 8pm, I had to go to the restroom every 10-15 minutes. I basically lived in the bathroom for about 6 hours, THEN, it finally became every hour or so, but it was painful. I was having false contractions, but only when I'd go to the bathroom, and it was just.. not pleasant. I got about 2 hours of sleep that night, and when Matt woke up in the morning, I asked him to stay home a bit just to make sure I wasn't going to have to go into the hospital. Luckily, the pain went away at around 6am and I was able walk around some without keeling over. I sent him off to work, slept some, then called the OB at 9. She said that either my UTI is making another appearance, or the baby dropped and was just causing a lot of pressure/pain on my bladder, OR that I was slightly dehyrated. She told me to spend the day in bed and drink lots of water or gatorade. I took her advice and haven't had any issues since.
I have been much more deligant about drinking a lot of water though. I was a bad girl and slacked off and wasn't drinking nearly as much as I should for a few weeks there. Back to about 5-6 16oz's a day, with other juices thrown in. :-) .... and the occasional dr. pepper. ;-)
Other than that, nothing too much to report. I'm on weekly visits now. I see a different OB this week (which was my choice, so I don't have to drive all the way to the hospital to see my doctor, but I can go to one who works with her and is at the nearby satelite clinic this week) and then next week I have to see yet another OB in the same clinic, but this is because my OB will be out of town from the 1st-7th.
I know every woman is different and she could wait until my due date or even after, even with being 70% effaced, but I can't help but be a bit worried she's going to make an early appearance and my OB won't be here. But, oh well. There will be nothing I can do about it, if that's the case. It just makes me nervous, because my OB and I have a pretty set birth plan, no C-Section unless the baby's in distress, natural birth, no IV unless I become dehyrated, allowing me to walk around as I want, only infrequent fetal monitoring, as long as everything goes well.. etc. She's being awesome about this stuff, and I just worry that another OB will disagree and want to do things differently. I'm ready for a fight if that's the case! Obviously the c-section is the most important to me. I'll pick my battles if I have to.
I got my first sling yesterday! Poor Matt. I've become obsessed with babywearing and wraps and slings. I told him he needs to set up a paypal budget for me to monitor my spending on these things. XD
The mural has begun in the babies room, it's looking pretty fantastic so far.
Ah, my artist-men! How lucky I am!
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