Up in the middle of the night with weird pains again. Seriously suspicious ones. Now, this would all make sense if I had eaten something weird or different today – but I haven’t and this is just ridiculous.
Brentyn and I went to the cheap $10 movies today and finally saw “The Princess and the Frog”. It was so awesome! I really enjoyed seeing 2D Disney again, it makes me so happy :) Prior to this though Brentyn and I, in classic dating style, went and bought lunch. I can’t even remember the last time we bought lunch. It was awesome, it felt just like when we were dating again. And, joy of joys, my blood sugar behaved itself. I only had Chicken Teriyaki, Broccoli and miso soup from Fuji-San (had to toss most of the rice though :() but ohhh it had flavour and it was to DIE for! Brentyn just had McDonalds, it didn’t look appealing to me anymore. He gave me two of his fries and I couldn’t ever taste the appeal. I suppose it’s telling how long I’ve been eating well and avoiding that stuff – now I don’t even want it anymore, which is great.
Anyway, when we got home from Readings Cinemas I felt a bit weird and full of pains. I shrugged it off, because (TMI alert) I had a lot of gas with each BH contraction. What I hadn’t realised though is that getting rid of the gas would not relieve the contraction. I was just left with an uncomfortable pain in the bottom of my pelvis that I couldn’t shake. However all of babys movements (tiny amount that they are…) are now right in my lower pelvis, nowhere near my ribs.
After midnight I went to sleep. I’ve been waking up about 1-2 times each hour since then. It’s about 3:00am now. Then (TMI again) I had the runs and felt like I was going to vomit everywhere. And strangely enough this was accompanied by tingling feet and legs with a little numbness. I have no idea what that was about.
All I know is that this has all been completely new and weird. Add to this I still have no idea what a real contraction is going to feel like, and I’m stuck in two trains of thought.
One) That this is all lead up to a huge FESTIVAL of pain that I can’t even contemplate or;
Two) That I’m in the early phases of labour and will go in tomorrow to hear I am progressing.
Something tells me it’s the former. I have a stupidly low thresh-hold for pain. Even though I have had pretty intense pain from 3 abscesses in the past.
People laugh at me when I say that, but seriously; the pain of a very deeply infected abscess which was about one day off killing me from blood poisoning is just about one of the most painful things I can think of. You can’t really understand unless you’ve had it happen. All I remember was the last time it happened Brentyn had to take me to the emergency outpatients at a hospital in Melbourne two nights in a row. The last night I was there I just held a wheat pack to my face, moaned and rocked back and forth in a foetal position till a doctor saw me (which was 4 hours later…). Just about everyone in the waiting room looked at me with that face that says “Damn, should I be here? I’m glad I’m not her…”.
Well I think I’m probably not in labour now. As I write this it’s about 3:36 am and I haven’t had a really painful BH contraction. Just one mild one.
Either way, I go to the Maternity Day Assessment Unit at Geelong Hospital tomorrow at 10am. I’m only going in for my weekly CTG scan to check the babies heartbeat (because I can barely feel the baby move at all these day). I desperately hope they check me out beyond the CTG though. Maybe I should plead with them since they know I am going two weeks without seeing anyone and I’m term. It’s pretty unfair to leave me in the dark :( Especially when I’m high risk, a first timer, and super nervous!
We will see what tomorrow brings. Hopefully some sleep! I’m so exhausted…
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