Only 12 days left! We are so excited, and also so impatient. Especially me, I’ve been doing basically ok for being pregnant… until about a week or week and a half ago it just suddenly hit me that I really feel pregnant. I just woke up that day and everything hurt… I’m pretty sure my pelvis is coming apart! It’s a strange, sort of wobbly feeling when I get up and walk around. And my energy has just been zapped, I feel somewhat like I did in the first trimester when all I wanted to do was sleep. Even the nausea has come back! Although when I asked my doctor about that part, she said it’s probably due to contractions, that contractions make some people feel sick. Great, I can add that to my list of things to look forward to when I actually go into labor!
Last week I was put on bed rest. We keep getting questions about it, it seems word has gotten out that something was up but no one seemed to actually know what. At our appointment last week I had gained nearly 5 pounds of just water weight, and my blood pressure was starting to go up which was making our Doctor concerned about preeclampsia. I’ve shown a couple smaller signs of it but this was a drastic change in a short period of time. So she told me I needed to stop working and that I needed to be on bed rest. I have to admit that I’ve been so exhausted lately that I’ve been secretly wishing for the last month for some reason to have to be on bed rest so that I could just be at home. But actually being on bed rest is a whole other matter! Not only am I now worried that something could go wrong with Matthew, but it is extremely boring! Half way through the first day I was pretty much bored out of my mind. I’ve been reading and watching TV and stuff, but that gets old fast. Luckily we are close to our due date and so I shouldn’t have to be bored much longer. We had another appointment yesterday and I have lost a few pounds of the water weight, and the swelling has noticeably gone down. She said to keep doing what I’ve been doing and we should be able to avoid any problems. She had originally said that if things didn’t change or especially if it got worse that we might have to induce early so that there would be no harm to Matthew… as much as we want him to be here now, we don’t want it to be under those circumstances!
I suppose that’s all the news for now. Violet has recently discovered that my belly moves. Matthew has kicked her before but she never really paid attention until just a couple days ago. She had her head on my belly and he was kicking and she seemed really fascinated by it, and just started licking that spot over and over again. Then the rest of the day all the wanted to do was cuddle up with my belly and lick that same spot. I just find it really interesting to see how our dogs react to all this baby stuff, we can’t wait to see what she thinks of the actual baby!