Pregnancy Updates:
-I am officially out of non-maternity pants, a true testament to how high I have been carrying her. I had so many pants to borrow from friends that I was excited about, but when I tried them on I realized pregnant or not, I am still taller than my friends. So I packed away the high waters and caved to buying my own. I bought one pair of jeans and a pair of jean capris a couple weeks ago and that is what I have been wearing every time I leave the house. Luckily the weather has been nice so I have been dragging out some skirts to wear too. I will most likely have to buy a pair of shorts here soon. I can still fit into quite a few non-maternity shirts I have that were longer to begin with but most things are starting to ride up on her and show my belly out the bottom. I am finding maternity shirts are more fun to wear anyway because loose/non maternity shirts I have awkwardly hide her enough that you can't really tell what is going on under there. And she is looking cute as of late so why hide her away. :) I can also still fit into a select few scrubs that I have. My grandma makes all my scrub tops so the size of each varies slightly. The bigger ones I own I can still pull off but each week that pile grows smaller and smaller. Soon it will just be T-shirts to work for me. My other work attire that had altered is my support hose. Instead of my thigh high ones I normally wear, I am now wearing the maternity style, full coverage, toe to sternum hose....so sexy. I actually haven't minded them too much, they do lift her slightly off my pelvic region and offer some relief. One downfall to them is I can't feel my pants falling down. My drawstring scrubs like to slide around on the nylon surface and slip down showing off my undies, unbeknownst to me of course because I don't feel a draft anymore. A few times co-workers have called me out of this. Luckily I work nights and parents are not around for most of my shift but it is only a matter of time I suppose until they might catch a glimpse too. My feet have not grown at all, which I hear is a side effect of pregnancy some people have. So I am thankful to not have to worry about shoes fitting as of yet.
-I am starting to get the "dreaded" black line. Matt said that was the one pregnancy sign that weirded him out when we talked about all that could happen to me early on in pregnancy. Mine is extremely faint right now but you can see its shadow there. Now that it is happening he claims it's not so bad and that it doesn't look as weird as he thought. We will see if it gets any darker. Such a bizarre side effect of being pregnant.
-I went to the dermatologist a week ago because my skin was OUT OF CONTROL (I rarely use all caps, so you know I am for real here). I have had bad eczema since I was in high school. I use a high dose topical steroid cream to keep it in check and about once a year I go in for a steroid shot. Well, when I got pregnant I called my Derm Dr and he advised me not to use the topical cream because it was too potent for baby and instead gave me a low dose cream. A very, very, low dose. So low it was like putting water on my skin. Not effective. At all. So I just gave into the idea that I would have to deal with this for the next 9 months and try to make the best of it without meds. So since Oct I have been coating my face, neck, and arms with every thick moisturizer known to man. On my days off I would wake up and put aquaphor all over first thing and then reapply every time it dried....which was like every 45 min. I also used reg vaseline, eucerin cream, some mary kay night cream product that a co-worker sweared by, lubriderm ect. It was like my skin couldn't absorb enough to stay moisturized. So I have been a dry, peeling mess for the last few months. Not only that but it itches, so bad. I would wake up at night itching and bleeding and raw. After my last appt. Rachel told me to go back to the Derm Dr. So I made an appt. thinking it would probably lead to nothing since I am still pregnant. The Dr came into see me and did a full body exam. After a min or so he decided it was the worst he had ever seen on me and that my body was in crisis mode. He said because I am far enough along, he felt comfortable giving me a steroid shot. He preferred that to the cream because he still wanted to limit the amount of exposure. He would rather treat it all with one shot than have me start with topicals which could take two weeks of exposure to get it back under control. I almost started to cry for joy. So now a week out from my shot and my skin looks 100% better and I don't itch anymore. This has been one of the greatest gifts I have been given this pregnancy. Take that eczema!
- I am starting to get leg cramps/ charlie horses in the middle of the night. They wake me up from a dead sleep and I am up out of bed faster than you can say boo. Man they are painful but thankfully stretching them out usually does the trick and I can go back to bed.
-She is moving all the time now. Twice she has done what feel like huge somersaults in there and surprised me so much I have jumped. Mostly I feel her low in my groin and lower abdomen. I wonder if that means she is breech a lot of the time. No kicks upward towards my ribs yet. She can play in whatever direction she wants but I hope she migrates head down before she can't move anymore, although she still has plenty of time for that still. Lots of other people have got to feel her which has been fun to share. Matt likes to make sure he feels her everyday and he still gets excited by that. It is fun too to just watch my belly twitch and jump around. Last night my mom had her hand on me while we watched the KU game and she called her movements dances. She said they were so dainty and nice like she was shrugging her shoulders or shaking her hips. The thought of her dancing around in there made me laugh.
-I am noticing I feel more sore on days I am on my feet a lot. At work for 12 hrs or running errands all day on my days off def. cause me to be a little achy. This is more of what I expected to feel as she grows, not the ouchy cramps I had a month ago. I am so thankful those have gone away, I can deal with being sore. I am not noticing being short of breath yet, well unless I am excersising. But day to day activities don't wear me down yet. Why can't you feel this great from this point on? It's too bad because this past month or so has been overall wonderful. I wish I could encourage my 10 week self that 28 week self says it gets better, hang in there, you will like this experience soon!
That is about all I have in updates. The NCAA championship game was on last night and we were rooting for the jayhawks until 11. So when the game was over, we were too tired to take our 28 wk picture. So when Matt gets home tonight we'll take it and I will post tom.
Also if I could ask for prayers, my good friend miscarried this week. She was 13 weeks along and was about to share the news publicly that her and her husband were expecting. Her appt didn't go well yest though and I just ask you to remember them in your prayers. My heart is so sad and hurts for them. Being pregnant myself just makes that all too real. I just keep thinking of how much that worried me early on and how exciting the joy of sharing our news was. To have that ripped away so suddenly is painful. It reminds me to be thankful for what our family has been blessed with and to not take anything for granted. Thanks for your prayers.
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