Warning: This will be long. I'll start with the weekly update...
I'm 35 weeks (and 4 days)! 4ish weeks left!! Well, hopefully. It could be much less...
Pregnancy Highlights:
How Far Along: 35 Weeks
Size of baby: Lawson is the size of a honeydew!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 18 pounds
Maternity Clothes: I mostly wear dresses and skirts. Nothing else fits!
Gender: It's a BOY! Lawson Ryan Payne
Movement: All the time! He is folded up head down (thank goodness!), with his butt under the right side of my rib cage and his legs and hands on the left side of my belly. He also has the hiccups a LOT! :) I feel him in my ribs often! His hiccups wake me (and Chris) up every morning!
Sleep: Going back to work has helped me sleep so much better! Now that I am just so tired, I am sleeping 7-8 hours a night, which makes me feel much better during the days!
What I miss: Being able to bend over, ha! Being tan and being skinny too! Also, I miss not having something in my ribs. I can't remember the last time Lawson wasn't kicking me there, ha!
Cravings: Nothing really...I haven't been eating much. I guess fruit and sandwiches? Light stuff, because it's too HOT to eat heavy!
Symptoms: Back pain/being unable to lay on my back, growing belly, fatigue (sooooo tired all the time!), contractions, hard to breathe/rib pain, sciatic pain (again). Everything is an effort, and I have to decide if it's even worth it to get up or pick something up if I drop it, ha!
I'm 35 weeks (and 4 days)! 4ish weeks left!! Well, hopefully. It could be much less...
Pregnancy Highlights:
How Far Along: 35 Weeks
Size of baby: Lawson is the size of a honeydew!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 18 pounds
Maternity Clothes: I mostly wear dresses and skirts. Nothing else fits!
Gender: It's a BOY! Lawson Ryan Payne
Movement: All the time! He is folded up head down (thank goodness!), with his butt under the right side of my rib cage and his legs and hands on the left side of my belly. He also has the hiccups a LOT! :) I feel him in my ribs often! His hiccups wake me (and Chris) up every morning!
Sleep: Going back to work has helped me sleep so much better! Now that I am just so tired, I am sleeping 7-8 hours a night, which makes me feel much better during the days!
What I miss: Being able to bend over, ha! Being tan and being skinny too! Also, I miss not having something in my ribs. I can't remember the last time Lawson wasn't kicking me there, ha!
Cravings: Nothing really...I haven't been eating much. I guess fruit and sandwiches? Light stuff, because it's too HOT to eat heavy!
Symptoms: Back pain/being unable to lay on my back, growing belly, fatigue (sooooo tired all the time!), contractions, hard to breathe/rib pain, sciatic pain (again). Everything is an effort, and I have to decide if it's even worth it to get up or pick something up if I drop it, ha!
Best Moment this week: Hitting the 35/35 mark! That means I've been pregnant for 35 weeks, and I only have 35 DAYS to go! WOOHOO!!!!
Now for the update on Labor and Delivery....
Sunday night I was rear-ended in Chris' truck at a stop light. Ashley was with me, and we were hit pretty hard, but thankfully there was no damage to the truck. Chris has one of those big trucks and the other driver hit Chris' metal tow hitch. The other driver's car was pretty damaged. Anyway, the police came out, but they refused to write a report because the damage wasn't enough supposedly.
Monday I had an OB appointment (my regular weekly), and when I told her about the accident she checked and I was dilated 1 cm. She wanted me to go to the hospital to have an NST (non-stress test) to check on Lawson. For the NST they basically just monitor Lawson's heartrate and movement to make sure he is doing ok. The minimum test is 20 minutes, the maximum is 2 hours. Chris, my mom, and Julia (Chris' step mom) met me up there and we got started. When Lawson was first hooked up, the nurse seemed optimistic that we would be out of there in 20 minutes as he looked GREAT on the monitors. After about 15 minutes, a new nurse came in, and introduced herself as my nurse for the night (not a good sign...). She said Lawson looked awesome, but I was contracting every 2-3 minutes so I wasn't going anywhere! Boo. They called my OB and tried turbutaline (sp?) to stop the contractions. From what I understand, it is to relax the uterus to get false labor to stop. If the contractions don't stop, it's not false labor. I also had a bag of IV fluids. By the way, I've never had an IV before, and that was NOT fun! Ugh! At least I know what to expect for real labor day! The first shot slowed the contractions but didn't stop them, so my OB ordered another one and another bag of IV fluids. The second shot did not stop them either. They weren't as regular anymore, but the goal was still to stop them. My OB was determined to keep Lawson in for the night and to let me go home, so she gave me morphine to make me comfortable and relax me and after an hour I was discharged. I still contracted some through the night, but they weren't painful or regular, so hopefully that little ordeal is over and done with. I also never dilated any more, so my cervix was never laboring (a good sign!). We really need Lawson to stay in until September 2nd at the earliest, which is 37 weeks.
The good news is that the whole time this was all going on, Lawson was showing GREAT on the monitors. He was very active and his heart rate never dropped or spiked or anything. He is a little trooper!
My OB would have preferred to put me on bed rest, but I am a teacher and this is the first week of school, so pretty much that's not happening! She was agreeable to me going back to work as long as I rest and take it easy, drink lots of fluids, and follow pelvic rest orders.
So, that is my exciting week so far, and it's only Tuesday! I am home today and can return to work tomorrow on Wednesday. I am hoping little Lawson cooperates!
Now for some maternity pictures...these were all taken by my mom at 34 weeks, 2 days. I love how they turned out! :)
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