35 Weeks

Life is always exciting when you're living with a pregnant woman.
For instance, yesterday morning, I woke up with a little scream and what felt like fire shooting down my right leg. Nate woke up to a screaming thrashing pregnant women trying to find a position that didn't cause pain. Officially entittled Scciattica this is a rather common but never any less painfull experience. I have had hip discomfort throughout my pregnancy but its become even more obvious that our little girl is moving downward. She has taken up residence on top of my hips and is causing all sorts of interesting sensations.
Last night Nate got to experience our little girls hiccups it was adorable and they tell me it doesn't bother them.

Thursday morning is typically my morning with the girls. I have an incredible group of women that I meet for coffee and I always look forward to it. As I was getting ready I began to have more and more discomfort in my stomach. When the pain got to bad I would lay down and they would seemingly get much better. A little worried but not wanting to go to the hospital if it wasn't serious I did what any first time pregnant woman would do, I called mom. I also kept trying to go out for coffee, when I was laying down I felt much better. I actually was sitting in the car ready to go when common sense got the best of me. Plus I knew that if I went out to coffee and still felt bad I would have six extremly strong willed women rushing me to the hospital and I was sure that would be more of a fiasco than anything else.

So when I finally gave up I asked Nate to call the nurse. All of this spanned about an hour and it was very obvious to me that they were NOT contractions. The pain was just under my diaphram and much different than the contractions I have been experiencing (once a day nothing to be concerned about) We really are generation Y because it took ten minutes to start the computer and look up the number when it could have taken us 3 to use a phone book. But all is well that ends well. And it did, the nurse was very helpful on the phone and encouraged me that it might just be one of those flukes (I love that a medical person can use the term fluke) and that if it gets better when I lie down thats a good thing. So she presribed and hour of lying on my left side and that I should call back if it didn't get better in an hour.

In the mean time Nate stayed home with me and we watched his first Baby Story, of course in this episode the baby was almost delivered in the car and needed a police escort. Definately was a shocking experience for him.

In the end I think I was just getting a flu bug that was going around, with stomach pains and everything but a HUGE thanks to my prayer group who instantly commited me to prayer. After a day's rest I felt like myself again and am SO thankful I didn't get sick.

This morning I woke up with a start, I realized for the first time that I was now 35 weeks pregnant and that after 37 weeks I could go anytime! Talk about adrenaline rush.