At this point I have no idea what’s going on with my body. I definitely feel better today – no puking – but I’m certainly not up to par. Just lots of nausea throughout the day. I really had to force myself to eat because any time I’d try to think of something to eat, just picturing eating it made me green. I took my unisom last night, so I don’t know what’s going on… either something else is at work and it’s a total coincidence, or I managed to really push my body out of whack yesterday. Which isn’t out of the realm of possibility… I get sick, I puke up everything and can’t keep anything down, an empty stomach makes me feel more nauseated, and so on and so forth. That’s why today’s goal was simply to get food in me, something that I have managed to do successfully so far.<\/p>\n
Plus it’s not really helping that Devin is SUPER active in there today, stirring up lots of gas and not really helping things settle down at all! Maybe he’s just excited that there’s more room in there today, lol.<\/p>\n
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Yesterday not only was I puking and miserable because of it, but my legs were aching. I know it’s because they’re not getting much bloodflow as they used to… they’ve been falling asleep really easily (things as simple as sitting cross-legged can cause some numbness) and even just laying in bed was causing mild aches. It wasn’t normally painful<\/i>, but it’s consistently irritating, like I just want to jiggle and shake them to get the blood flowing. By evening, however, it was<\/i> painful and Den massaged my legs a little bit. It helped, but he can’t massage my legs all day.<\/p>\n
So I did something I haven’t done in a year: I took a bath. A HOT bath. I only drew enough water to cover my legs, so my belly and chest were completely out of the water…. all I wanted to do is soak my damn legs and get them warmed up and relaxed. This is not exactly an easy thing because our water heater has some major issues with the faucet in the bathtub… it can’t keep up. so I had to fill it with the shower head attachment. Which took a long time. I heated up a huge pot of water on the stove to add, since far too often by the time I crawl into the bathtub it’s already lukewarm and totally defeats the purpose of having a bath! (You can see why I don’t do this very often… it’s a pain in the ass.)<\/p>\n
All I can say is that bath was the most blissful thing EVER. And I don’t even LIKE baths, I find them boring and uncomfortable. But yesterday, soaking those poor legs… I just sat there, slouched with my boobs hanging on my belly, raggedy hair flopped around my face, mouth slack like some kind of druggie as I just let the warm water soothe my legs. Den walked in and started laughing at me. He said my belly looked totally cute… but that my hair looked aweful. LOL But he was great… he’d come in every few minutes and pour in more of the steaming water.<\/p>\n
I tell you man, suddenly the whole idea of a waterbirth made sense<\/i> to me. Unfortunately my hospital does not do actual waterbirths, but<\/i> they have one hydrotherapy tub for laboring in. I want that tub.<\/i> After my bath I wanted to drive down to the hospital and write my name on that tub so no one will take it from me. Den says he has lots of connections at the hospital, so I told him he needs to pull strings to make sure when I go into labor that tub is ready and waiting for me. I highly highly encourage every other woman due around the same time as me who will be birthing at this hospital to get epidurals. You hear me? Epidurals are good! Get one! (If you get an epidural, you can’t use the tub. Hah!)<\/p>\n
So anyways, now that I’ve established that… ;) I’ve been trying to take better care of my legs since the bath, as I really don’t want to have to keep dealing with this… if I can prevent it, all the better. Thus the sleeping with pillows under my knees. And also, when sitting in bed I have a pillow under my knees. I didn’t do it before because I figured that raising<\/i> my legs would not be a good thing… but apparently giving them a more natural bend really is helping. They are far more comfortable.<\/p>\n
Yet again it all comes down to listening to my body better and adapting to its changing needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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