My legs hurt. And I don’t mean up near my groin… I mean from the knees down. I’ve been getting foot cramps now and then…. and between that and the idiotic walking I did yesterday (I got lost, on foot, in a strange city), my poor legs hurt! It’s down the front of my legs, and the top of my foot… not the calf. Very weird.

Still continuing the random, light uterine/belly “pains”. A lot of what I’m feeling is most definitely my stomach muscles. I hear my friends talk about “round ligament pains”… and then they mention it, they’re talking about sharp, stabbing pains. I don’t have those. I used the word “pains” in quotations for a reason… I don’t feel like I can really call them pains! They’re more light aches. I admitted to Den today that sometimes I just lay still to “listen” to them…. to feel them better. I don’t know why it’s so reassuring. It just is.

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I’m reading up on the Bradley Method. I’m debating whether a class would be worth the $250 I was quoted. I do think the method itself is useful though, and plan on utilizing it during labor, as long as it works. I really like the idea of going to “sleep” to work through contractions… to deeply relax and sink into myself and not be disturbed while my body does its work. The book itself is a little iffy. I think the method is good; the way he writes, at least in this edition, is very preachy. There’s a lot of “you have no business being there if you don’t…” He’s very sure that HIS method is the only one that works, and the rest are all just pale imitations and that you’re wasting your time even bothering. I don’t know. The foreword really irritated me. The facts and studies he talks about later don’t as much – as long as he sticks to just information, and not judgements.

I am looking into doulas in this area… finding out their fees and services and availability. I still really feel the need to have one. I feel like it would give me a real leg up, so to say. The statistics are so very reassuring. But, a lot will come down to cost.