I'm going to whine just a little bit here, but I am not actually looking for solutions/sympathy - I just want to vent. On my birth club message board, we call such ramblings "Dear Diary" posts. We have had two major challenges this week, one being that Maya's nighttime sleep has gone into the shitter - not that she was sleeping that well before - but for the past three nights, she's been up every hour between 10pm and 5am, and then napped in my lap (but only in my lap, and only if I remain very still) all morning to make up for it. The only good part about this is that all the extra nursing has been helping me resolve bad challenge #2, which is that I'm currently battling my 5th clogged milk duct in 10 days - quite the record for me! Clogged ducts are bad enough on their own, especially the ones that plug right at the nipple (oh lord, the stabbing pain!), but my coworker just had one turn into a raging case of mastitis and then an ABSCESS in the space of
Well, I was suckered into watching a 2.5 minute video of your belly because I, too, currently suck at writing papers (and I'm wondering if I can effectively procrastinate for 2.5 more hours until I leave for my OB appointment), and I'm glad I watched, due to the understated name reveal! I love it!! Are you going with the Sanskrit "illusion" interpretation/spelling (LOVE), or the Greek "earth goddess" interpretation/spelling (also LOVE). Anyway-- you're lucky. I'm 38 weeks, and we STILL haven't decided on a name!! Ugh.
ReplyDeleteAlso, your linea nigra is totally out of control! I don't get one for some reason (???). Just another way my body doesn't get the memo about pregnancy changes that it's supposed to go through (like, um, entering labor? hellO?)
Thanks for the spinning babies link. I've tried belly mapping, but it's pretty hard. I just know that limbs are thrusting forwards (sort of like in your video), and that makes me worried for another posterior labor. Crawling around and doing rezobos has just resulted in bruised kneecaps, unfortunately! Well anyway. We'll get through this last phase of beached-whalehood and labor somehow. Then bring on the cuddle bugs!! AND the post-pregnancy bodies back. Even recovering from a major abdominal incision with a hacking cough felt WAYYYY better than week 41 of pregnancy, I'm telling you!
Too funny, yeah I don't know why I got a linea nigra - it's not like my super pale skin ever tans well! Didn't think I had much skin melanin...?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, after having grown up with the less common "British" spelling of my name (=constantly misspelled, seemingly especially on legally binding documents), I have decided that we should go with the more common Sanskrit Y instead of the Greek I, even though we both like the I spelling better! Of course, I waffle about that decision fairly regularly myself....
Yep, I'm pretty sure my baby is currently posterior too (LOP, I think) - but just remember, all we have to do is get them to OT, which is only a tiny spin! Lots and lots of babies go into labor at LOT and do just fine, so we don't need to get them all the way to anterior just yet. Which is good because I can no longer sit properly in a chair, so I lean back and prop my lower back with pillows, which spinning babies lady says is the *worst* for creating OP babies. What does my midwife say...that walking is the very best thing to do for optimal positioning, and spinning babies techniques are hit or miss. I'm guess I'm just bet hedging.... :)
Seriously, keep us all posted - I can't believe you're already 38 weeks, YAY!!! So soon! Hope the appointment today went super well :)