You Spin Me Right 'Round, Baby, Right 'Round
Saturday, March 24, 2007

It is almost 6 AM and I am wide awake. I have been since about 4 AM. Oh well.

So, you mommas are thinking girl, eh? That would be just fine with me.....I LOVE the girl name we have picked out. But, I also LOVE the boy name. I know it sounds silly, but no matter which gender we end up having, it'll be sort of sad that we didn't get to use the other name. Too bad it's not fraternal boy/girl twins! Just kidding, DH.

The swelling in my feet has almost gone away. Last night they were so bad that I wondered how the skin on my left foot would hold out. It felt so tight and uncomfortable. It sort of scared me. I should've called my midwife, but it was late and I didn't want to bother her.....although I'm positive she wouldn't have minded one bit. I should listen to my DH sometimes. He had been telling me to call for 2 days. My feet were a little less swollen when I got up this morning, but I called her to let her know about the swelling anyway. She told me to get some Epsom salts and soak my whole lower body in a tub of lukewarm water. It sure did help.

I was trying to think of a change in diet or salt intake that may have caused this when I realized that DH and I had Thai food Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday morning at my 36 week appointment, my feet were not swollen. By Tuesday night they were extremely puffy. My midwife thinks if there was MSG in the Thai food, that could've triggered the swelling. I don't doubt it. I wish I would've thought of that before eating the giant bowl of panang tofu curry.

Some other nuissance happened this week as well. Actually, I don't know for sure if it really happened or not. I was laying in our recliner one evening, when the baby felt like it was trying to crawl out through my bellybutton. The baby is usually very active, but this felt out of the norm even for my little acrobat. Not long after that crazy jolt, he or she got hiccups and the hiccups felt like they were up high instead of down low. Every other time I've felt hiccups, it has been VERY low, up against my pelvis. I started feeling around and realized that the heel that's usually lodged under my left rib was not there anymore. Things just felt different in there. I started getting paranoid that the baby had flipped.

I told my midwife about this and she didn't seem concerned at all. She just said it's still relatively early and if the baby did flip, he or she could just as easily flip right back around. She also reminded me that she knows a chiropractor's wife who is very successful at turning babies and we could use her as a last resort if need be. Until I see the midwife this Tuesday and she can assess the situation, I am to continue my pelvic tilts as often as I can.

I talk to the baby all the time and tell him/her to get its little head down by my cervix, with its back against my belly and its little feet jammed up in my ribs again. Who knows? Maybe the baby didn't flip at all and I am just crazy. At any rate, I'm not fretting about it. I know he or she will tuck its head under again and everything will be fantastic.

Oh yeah- P.S. No, I'm not joking about the hairy pits. I thoroughly enjoy them. Tre European! :) LOL

Labels: baby names, pregnancy whining, prenatal appointment

posted by Unkempt Mommy @ 5:41 AM,

1 Comments:

At Sat Mar 24, 03:17:00 PM CDT, Sorlil said...: You keep telling him/her to get the right way round! Noooo hairy pits, I may be European (though us Brits don't really think of ourselves as European, come to think about it I don't really think of myself British just plain old Scottish!) but hairy pitts are too far for me!!