I am soo not on time with this, but this week I have been
working everyday- substitute teaching and just busy with life in general and I
have actually been cooking dinner and ( trying) to clean so by the time I get
into bed I am just beat and ready to pass out. But here is Wednesday and I am
going to try to write this weekly post up in a matter of 30 minutes before I
pass out. I promised myself I would go to bed by 10 today because I am just way
too tired during the day with waking up so early for work that I just NEED to
be going to bed earlier. It’s Wednesday and I feel like it should be Friday already…
Anyway, back to what this week has been like. Well, I am now
in my 6 month of pregnancy reaching a new month is just WOW and kind of crazy I
have been pregnant for half a year already! But I am happy and have a feeling
like I have achieved something here… and makes the pregnancy seem like it is
passing by just a teeny bit faster.
I weighed myself today, yes I am 2 days passed being 24
weeks, but that is quite fine with me but I weigh 147 pounds! I weighed 141
last week, and this week I gained 6 pounds! In a week! Woahhh…. I am supposed
to be gaining like 2-3 pounds a week I think. I am not sure, going to look that
up later. But the weight is catching up to me… which is still good… I think… I
am not concerned yet… this is just the most weight I have gained in a week thus
far!
Although some people say my belly is not that big- and maybe
it isn’t compared to some other pregnant ladies in the same week as me but I am
GROWING that is for sure! I have been very wobbly… squatting, getting up;
making fast sudden movements is getting difficult. I actually fell in the
shower yesterday. Just randomly lost my balance. I didn’t hurt myself… maybe a
small bruise on my leg somewhere but nothing serious. But I think I need to try
to be more careful and aware of my movements because making movements and
shifting this extra weight is very new to me and is making me even clumsier
than I am.
I also believe I started having round ligament pain. Which
is strange because I have read about it happening earlier in the pregnancy. I
actually remember thinking I had a little bit of it, but now that I have it I
think I know for sure whatever ache I had at the time was NOT round ligament
pain. My muscles are definitely stretching. Right above my hip bones on both
sides, you can see this almost- sculpted bulge of where you can tell it is not
fat it is my uterus- a place that definitely grew! And that same area kind of a
little higher and to the sides is where I have been feeling this pain. And this
usually happens if I am laying and quickly turn over to my other side or get up
to fast or sometimes I am not even sure what movement I can possibly be doing
but if I turn or do something too quickly that could cause it too. Also sneezing
and coughing and laughing even sometimes bring on the pain too. It’s nothing
HORRID. I’ve heard women complain like something is broken in their body or
they think they are in labor… it’s nothing like that. It is kind of like a
sharp, sudden muscle pain and strain that last for a few seconds and once I am
still and relaxed it slowly goes away. The strongest pain I had so far was when I
sneezed or blew my nose the other day. I literally had to sit still for a
minute until the pain went away- it was almost like a very bad muscle spasm! I
have been trying very hard to just be careful and slow with my movements. The only
problem I have with that is at night… I toss and turn and sometimes wake myself
up because of my sudden turning which causes the pain. During the night I can’t
really control myself so that is the only thing that sucks. But it is ok, from
what I have heard and read the pain could be much worse, so I will take it!
My indigestion got a little better this week. I have been
trying different foods and the more greasy foods tend to bring the indigestion
back to life. So I started eating spaghetti with sauce and cheese again (without
the meatballs- the meatballs instantly gave me the horrid indigestion.) The
spaghetti seems to be fine, so I am eating and happy!
My boobs… ugh….the rash between them seems to be dry and
almost gone, but now this heat rash or whatever else this is has spread to my boobs in general. Which really sucks
because they get SO itchy. I do everything I can, I wash myself there 1000
times a day, wipe them down with rubbing alcohol, hydrocortisone, everything
you can think of! The past couple days
have been a little more tolerable so I am hoping it will stay that way.
More on the topic of my boob leakage I mentioned last week.
At this point I don’t even know if there is a point to mention my posts being
TMI because all this stuff is just normal to me now, and you are following a
pregnancy blog and reading it ( especially if you have been reading my posts)
you should know by now I talk about this stuff.
Anyway, now both the ladies are leaking. Which is fine, I
really don’t care… I just think it is strange that this is happening so early…
I thought this was supposed to happen closer to labor time. My but I have been
leaking more and more. I wake up in the morning and have dried up stains on our
bed sheets and on my pjs. I went to Babies R Us on Saturday and got myself some
medela bra pads. At home I don’t care if I have a random wet boob stain, but in
public- no thank you! I would definitely like to avoid that!
So I have been walking around with bra pads now. Strange
feeling…. Especially since I am still pregnant and don’t have a baby yet. But
yes, I have been leaking more and more! I’ve also noticed that my boobs are much
hotter when you feel them. I could be all cold and they are just burning up (
which could be one cause of the rash I suppose.) Funniest part is, I could walk
around all day at work with my bra pads in to protect me from leakage… then I
come home and do the most amazing thing that day- strip down and take my bra
off- and there comes the colostrum! Woooo! Waterfall! Literally… this is how it’s
been. I squeeze it out so I don’t sit there and keep leaking, so it just comes
out and it is done and over with. Today, I literally had half a palm full in my
hands. I seriously feel like I could start pumping already and I will have
something. I don’t plan to… don’t worry. I know they say pumping can actually
stimulate labor- and no thank you! Baby still has some baking to do! But it is
just INSANE! This much?! I don’t get
it!!! I am going to mention this to my midwife next time I have an appointment
with her which is the 18th of this month and see what she says. I
mean I don’t think it’s a bad thing… a lot of people are saying it is a good thing
I am just confused and mind blown that it is happening so early! And so much of
it!
Baby continues to move and jump and have a party in there. I
think he has fun with my bladder a lot too. I seriously think he uses it as a
trampoline or something, because it literally feels like he is jumping on it or
aiming to kick me there. So far I haven’t had any accidents, but if this keeps
up I might have one soon!! :) I’ve also
felt little bulges in certain spots and can tell where he is chilling
sometimes. On Sunday for instance he just decided to chill on the very bottom
of my stomach as if he was hugging my bladder or something. I just had this awkward
heavy pressure feeling down below, as if I had a rock there or something. At
some points of the day I would rub my belly there and can literally feel a bump
right there!! Of course once I would poke him the bump wouldn’t be as distinct
but he just wouldn’t budge and move anywhere else! Silly boy!
I’ve also felt either his leg or arm bone the other day.
Totally some small skinny bone and not something round which is what I usually
feel. It was kind of cool. And today I think I felt either a footsie or a hand
kick me or high five me. So baby is getting more active and interesting with
each day, it is so fun… I just can’t wait
for him to come out already so I can play with him outside the womb! :)
Last thing I want to mention, but not too much about it, is
I have been thinking about my baby shower a lot. Yes, we are throwing it
ourselves. I can talk about why and all that stuff later, but right now (I know
it is too far in advance) we are thinking of having it May 19th. So
far all we know is where it is going to be! But I registered online for 2
stores the other day. Zhenya and I skimmed through babys r us the other day
when we got my bra pad thingies and both of us got super excited about all this
baby stuff and decided we are going to fully register in babys r us this
weekend. Take some time specifically to look at some stuff and scan away in the
store. I actually think Zhenya is JUST as excited about this as me! Making ME
even more excited to see my hubby so into it! But yes, we are going to slowly
register for some stores, and probably in a month be done and finalize that and
start inviting people! I am excited!!
Other than that, that is pretty much my week! I will try to
keep the posts on time and not late but sometimes life catches up with me and I
just don’t have the time! :)
I have lied to myself again... it is 10:15 and I am not in
bed. So this is coming up and I am passing out! Good night!
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