Yesterday, I got out of the house for the first time in two days.
We successfully made it to the store and back in our newly acquired winter wonderland and as I was walking into the house (through the garage) I slipped and fell.
The baby is fine. But I was a little worse for wear. I managed to pull something in my groin that made it extremely hard to walk and at one point I could not lay down on my side (which is the only way I can lie down because of the big belly).
I called the midwife and she recommended some amazing homeopathic ointment (let me know if you need to know what it is...I HIGHLY recommend it for sports type injuries). But the heartbreaking news was that we would probably be rescheduling induction because of all the pain and lack of mobility due to this injury. We were hoping to try inducing today.
However, I am feeling ALOT better this morning. I'm hoping we can try to move forward with induction today - but we won't know until later this afternoon.
That's the latest update. I was pretty upset yesterday, but I'm feeling much more hopefully today.
Showing posts with label Pregnancy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
10 Days Overdue
Well, my due date has come and gone...again.
I really thought I would handle it better this time around (IF it should happen). But I'm going a little bit bonkers here. I think I did fine until I hit 41 weeks. But every little thing that complicates my life (snow, a headache, a grumpy 2 year old, a grumpy husband) seems so huge to me right now.
I keep praying for Jesus to help me trust him. Since my first son was born right at 42 weeks (which for those of you counting would put me at Christmas Day this time around), I learned that I could birth a healthy baby naturally and not have any postpardum complications. In fact, I was so energized by NOT being pregnant I remember those first 6 months (before lack of sleeps really started to get to me) as some of the most joyful moments in my life.
Even as I write this my heart is calmed by the faithfulness God has shown me through childbirth.
Most often, I'm just tired of the kind of tired that comes from being pregnant. I have to say no to alot of activities with my 2 year old right now and that is SO hard...probably a sign of the things to come and probably not entirely a bad thing for my 2 year old...but it's still hard.
At this point in my last pregnancy, I was entering the hospital to be induced. The process of induction was 4 days long. This is not the path I want to take this time around. I am unconvinced that all the interventions I had last time did much good. But on Tuesday, if I still haven't had this baby, there will be some options we can try that don't require me to go to the hospital.
Pray for me!
I really thought I would handle it better this time around (IF it should happen). But I'm going a little bit bonkers here. I think I did fine until I hit 41 weeks. But every little thing that complicates my life (snow, a headache, a grumpy 2 year old, a grumpy husband) seems so huge to me right now.
I keep praying for Jesus to help me trust him. Since my first son was born right at 42 weeks (which for those of you counting would put me at Christmas Day this time around), I learned that I could birth a healthy baby naturally and not have any postpardum complications. In fact, I was so energized by NOT being pregnant I remember those first 6 months (before lack of sleeps really started to get to me) as some of the most joyful moments in my life.
Even as I write this my heart is calmed by the faithfulness God has shown me through childbirth.
Most often, I'm just tired of the kind of tired that comes from being pregnant. I have to say no to alot of activities with my 2 year old right now and that is SO hard...probably a sign of the things to come and probably not entirely a bad thing for my 2 year old...but it's still hard.
At this point in my last pregnancy, I was entering the hospital to be induced. The process of induction was 4 days long. This is not the path I want to take this time around. I am unconvinced that all the interventions I had last time did much good. But on Tuesday, if I still haven't had this baby, there will be some options we can try that don't require me to go to the hospital.
Pray for me!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Coming Out of The Fog
Sorry about the blank-ness of this post. I was composing on my Blackberry and then I got distracted and somehow the title got posted but not any of the text.
As the title states, it seems that I'm emerging from the morning sickness fog. I haven't thrown up for almost 2 weeks (Praise be to God!). I'm still experiencing some intense nausea and I'm definately still running at a lower energy level, but I can see the light.
As the title states, it seems that I'm emerging from the morning sickness fog. I haven't thrown up for almost 2 weeks (Praise be to God!). I'm still experiencing some intense nausea and I'm definately still running at a lower energy level, but I can see the light.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
The Nagging Question
Lately, one of the biggest questions in my life has been, ' Will I get pregnant again?'
I know I want more kids, I'm just not sure if I can or even should get pregnant again. Pregnancy was hard for me. I was not one of those glowing pregnant women. I got fat and dealt with my changing body very poorly.
My delivery experience was also pretty intense. I was 10 days overdue when I was induced and my induction was filled with stopping and starting contractions and just about every pain killer used in delivery - most of which didn't seem to do much at all. I did end up delivering without a c-section after 4 hours of pushing. The baby was 10 lbs 7 oz at birth and totally healthy. The pediatric nurse called him "Brutus". Those 4 days (a total of 6 in the hospital) seemed very short compared to the preceding 9 months of raging hormones and intense hunger cravings. I fully admit that I'm a wimp because so many women have had harder pregnancies than I did. I didn't have to work during my pregnancy and I never really had bad morning sickness. I did gain a lot of weight which depresses me even now as I look at the minimum of 10 lbs I need to lose still (ideally I should lose another 35). Let me mention here for the record that my husband was a ROCK STAR when I was pregnant - he was the picture of patient understanding that we all hope our husbands would be in this situation.
Yesterday for the first time since I got pregnant, I thought to myself, 'I think I could do that again.' So, I guess what I need to do is ask God what he thinks about all this and then do what he says. A large part of me still hopes we need to adopt, but I think I could deal if the answer is that we need to get pregnant again.
I know I want more kids, I'm just not sure if I can or even should get pregnant again. Pregnancy was hard for me. I was not one of those glowing pregnant women. I got fat and dealt with my changing body very poorly.
My delivery experience was also pretty intense. I was 10 days overdue when I was induced and my induction was filled with stopping and starting contractions and just about every pain killer used in delivery - most of which didn't seem to do much at all. I did end up delivering without a c-section after 4 hours of pushing. The baby was 10 lbs 7 oz at birth and totally healthy. The pediatric nurse called him "Brutus". Those 4 days (a total of 6 in the hospital) seemed very short compared to the preceding 9 months of raging hormones and intense hunger cravings. I fully admit that I'm a wimp because so many women have had harder pregnancies than I did. I didn't have to work during my pregnancy and I never really had bad morning sickness. I did gain a lot of weight which depresses me even now as I look at the minimum of 10 lbs I need to lose still (ideally I should lose another 35). Let me mention here for the record that my husband was a ROCK STAR when I was pregnant - he was the picture of patient understanding that we all hope our husbands would be in this situation.
Yesterday for the first time since I got pregnant, I thought to myself, 'I think I could do that again.' So, I guess what I need to do is ask God what he thinks about all this and then do what he says. A large part of me still hopes we need to adopt, but I think I could deal if the answer is that we need to get pregnant again.
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