Thanks Meegs for the comment asking if everything is okay! :S So badly behind on my blogs, and somewhat fed up that I've let this one go when I like to keep everything recorded during my pregnancies! Also I haven't been taking belly pics :( I will try to get one for 24 weeks, but who knows. I am just utterly foggy of brain lately, this pregnancy more than any other (though they seem incrementally worse each time!) and also starting out with a new academic year of homeschooling THIS WEEK. So I'm completely consumed with that for now, and will be for a while.
So this is just quick! :)
I had my 20 week scan and confirmed that Elijah is definitely a boy! :) Also my placenta has moved RIGHT out of the way, praise God!!! The sonographer was surprised they'd even considered it low a few weeks before, as it was almost fundal (up over the top!). This is exactly what happened with Nathan's placenta - they could not believe it had been low to start with (it was completely covering my cervix 4 weeks before this scan with Elijah!). So much prayer has gone into this (both pregnancies) and all I can say is, God is good to me! :) So so relieved because now I don't have to worry about bleeding and delivery options, etc.
I'm also VERY relieved to be 24 weeks pregnant tomorrow - I always like this "viability" milestone! It means that if Elijah was born, he would have a chance of survival outside my womb, whereas before tomorrow they would not even try to save him.
My womb is still on the small side for me, height-wise. It's a continous growth pattern, but always the same amount "behind". Maybe it will measure normally, but as far as fingerwidths to my tummy button, it's always about 3 weeks behind where it normally is for any given week. But at least it's consistent throughout the pregnancy, and thus IS growing, and Elijah has measured right on track every time I've had a scan. At the 20 (almost 21) week scan, he measured spot on for his legs (not an Arthur or Benjamin then, who have my short leggies!), a week under for his abdomen (don't know who has done that yet!) and a week ahead for his head circumference (Arthur and Benjamin after all then, lol!). It's so much fun to see new combinations of our genes every time - they are ALL different, no matter how many we have! I don't think we've yet had a combination of Arthur and Benjamin's little round heads and Matthew and Nathan's more proportionate legs!
I just. can't. WAIT. to meet him!!!! Seriously! I am so excited, and just want to squeal with glee every time I feel him move and lay my hand on my bump and remember he's COMING and I'll get to hold a new snuffly baby in my arms soooooon!!! I can not get over how blessed I am. I get to do it again, I get to do it again!! I keep saying this (in high-pitched child tones, lol!) to Neil and Heather, just randomly as it occurs to me! :) I think this feeling is stronger this time than the last, and that it is getting stronger each pregnancy, each time I have a baby. I feel more excited, and more blessed, and more wonderful about having a new baby every pregnancy. I didn't think that was possible since I already felt SO over the moon about the first and second, and so on, but it's WAY more now, which is such a precious feeling to have!
I wonder if he'll have dark hair like most of his brothers, or fairer hair like Matthew, or even be blonde like Samuel has managed to be! I feel like we're due a red-head though! :) Neil and I both have red hair in our families, and copper tones to our own hair (well, Neil's beard more than anything else). I would love a red-haired boy! :) But anything is exciting to me. Will he have blue eyes, and will they be soft blue like Samuel's, or dark blue like Nathan's? Will he have grey eyes with some hazel like mine and Benjamin's. Or greenish eyes like Matthew's? Or BROWN eyes like Arthur?! We have a proper mixed bag to choose from, as far as the gene pool goes, lol! SO MUCH FUN every time to find out! :)
He kicks and wiggles much more strongly now, and quite often. He is gentler than some of my other babies, not very vigorous, although he's kicking strongly. I love feeling him move about in there! I can now feel his kicks very clearly with my hands, and can also see my tummy blip when he kicks. Matthew is (so far) the only other person to feel Elijah kick, as he laid his hand on my tummy when he was active (he isn't often active for very long at a time, and prefers late at night or even the small hours of the morning to really thump about in there), and felt some little blips to his hand. He seemed awed, but not as excited as I'd expected! ;) I can't wait until the movements are bigger and more predictable, and all the boys can feel him kick as the opportunity arises.
I haven't had an appointment since the scan, although I've had a urology follow up for my kidney stone (that I had in July) this past week. I am having side pain quite a lot, but they scanned my kidney and there aren't any particular changes, still just this small pocket of accumulated fluid which isn't concerning them, so they are putting it down to pregnancy. I AM getting a lot more ligament pain on that side than usual this pregnancy, and now that my womb is bigger and the ligament pain is higher therefore, I REALLY know about it when I tweak that ligament getting up too suddenly at the same time as twisting, for example. And that's when I realise that the ligament pain is a sharp nasty version of the dull pain I have fairly constantly. So maybe my ligament on that side is just kind of tired and stretched and unhappy this time around? Or being pressured by this pregnancy in a different way? I don't know.
The other thing that's different this pregnancy is that I STILL have morning sickness! Never had anything like it before! My other pregnancies have had morning sickness up until varying stages, but the very latest (by a couple of weeks) was Samuel's at 20 weeks. It was gone by then and didn't return. This time it hung around until 18/19 weeks ish, and then seemed to clear up, but I noticed it again by 20 weeks, though I presumed it was just tired/queasy feeling - it was sooooo mild, barely noticable. It has gradually got worse though, and this week has been quite yucky. I did wonder if it was just tiredness exacerbating something I otherwise wouldn't notice (I'm really tired and sleep deprived just now), but it's definitely proper morning sickness. After I eat, I get the usual few minutes (up to 5, no more) and then my mouth starts to taste a bit yucky and metallic and I start to feel nauseous. Then it stays. Always after lunch and dinner, not always after breakfast, but sometimes it is. The nausea isn't dreadful, like earlier in pregnancy, but it's bothersome now, and the yucky queasiness is dragging me down a bit in the evenings. Bleurgh! Oh well. I'm just glad it's totally manageable, and that I'm only 4 weeks away from my THIRD trimester (gasp!), so the end of the pregnancy seems pretty close all of a sudden, if it ends up continuing to the very end.
I have a nice little baby bump now, which I am extremely proud and fond of! :) I am really enjoying my maternity clothes, and looking pregnant! My bump has had a growth spurt two weeks running now (with a brief breather in the middle), and in that time I have really started to FEEL pregnant. I'm hurting in my pelvis and getting shooting pains to one side of my pubic bone now and again. My hips basically hurt most of the time, but it's not bad yet. I have had some sharp pain when putting weight on my right leg, in the back of my pelvis somewhere, but not all the time. Things are definitely loosening and under more pressure these days! I am also having to shift my balance now, and getting up from the floor is juuust beginning to become more difficult than before. I can't bend tightly over my bump without it being in the way (and hurting from the pressure!), but I'm otherwise able to do all the usual non-pregnant things still.
I am getting spots more often these past couple of weeks, and have had some crazy emotional moments recently! I can go from nothing to majorly over-reacting and tearfulness in a matter of seconds, lol! Absolutely anything slightly sweet or sappy can make me cry, and I want to watch my Anne of Green Gables DVD that I got for Christmas, but NO WAY am I opening that can of worms, lol! I don't think I can deal with the emotional onslaught! It will have to wait until my postnatal hormones have calmed down! ;)
I have scan pics to post from both the 17 week and 20 week scans, which I must/will get around to posting! But I just wanted to get an entry posted for now, otherwise it just won't happen. And now I need to change a few nappies, put Samuel to bed for his nap, and start school for the morning. I NEVER update my blogs in the mornings, but they're playing nicely and I was just sitting down with my necessary cup of tea (didn't sleep until nearly 2am AGAIN - having trouble with insomnia on and off this pregnancy - and then Samuel was up for the day AGAIN at 5am!!!) and thought I might just type a short entry to keep up, while it was all going well in the other room! ;) Now I've managed a pretty solid entry, so that's good! And right on cue, the boys are beginning to bicker about a combine harvester, so I must go! Back asap though, and thanks for being patient! :)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
20 weeks - halfway there! :)
I can't BELIEVE I am 20 weeks pregnant today! :)
I also didn't realise it had been quite so long since I updated last! Oops! I meant to come back with a belly picture for 18 weeks and the pictures from the scan of Elijah's measurements, BUT I still haven't scanned the pics onto the computer, and I never did get around to an 18 week belly pic :( MUST take one for 20 weeks. I usually do one dressed in the same clothes each time I'm pregnant at 20 weeks, but I didn't get one done for Samuel :(
Anyway, it's day time so the boys are about, therefore I really shouldn't spend long on a blog post (they're busily occupied at the moment, but that's not the point!). I just realised how long it has been and wanted to get started so at least I'd have done SOMETHING by the time I get a chance to finish it off in the evening sometime.
My bump is really (reeeeally) growing now! The top of my uterus is still small, to me. It's still 2 or 3 fingerwidths below my tummy button, and at 20 weeks it should be right at my tummy button. A fingerwidth is roughly a week. So at 21 weeks it should ideally be a fingerwidth (a centimetre) above my tummy button, and so on. But it is really filling out forwards and sideways. Sometimes I can feel that Elijah is lying across me - his head as a little hard round ball in my side. And then a few minutes later the little hard round ball will be up at the top, right under my tummy button! :) Having no placenta over the top of my uterus (which it usually is, for me), I can feel soooo much more, baby-shape wise, at the top.
I am wearing maternity clothes all the time now - I think I started that at 18 weeks, though I didn't show much in them yet, at least they just about fit me. They were kind of loose at the waist though, and now they're not. Elijah kicks and moves and wiggles a LOT, and his kicks are a lot stronger just these last few days. I LOVE feeling them! :) I can feel them easily with my hand, even his smaller wiggles, as it's really clear through my tummy now. I can just about see my tummy move if he does a big movement or clear kick to the front - it blips a bit :) LOVE this stage!!
I haven't been feeling too well lately. It took ages to get over that coldy/cough virus that we had before Christmas, and we're still coughing just a little bit now. I gave it to my sweet doula! :( I feel sooooooo bad. She must have caught it from me the day she went to the scan with me. Thankfully she didn't give it to any of her family, and was well in time for Christmas, but still I feel awful because she was so lovely to be with me, and it was SUCH a horrid bug!
Anyway over New Year's weekend I felt really unwell. I had no energy whatsoever and my arms felt heavy like lead, I couldn't even hold a book or they ached and ached, and my hands shook with the effort. I felt just wiped out physically, but not particularly the type of tired that comes from being sleep deprived. Just physical. I didn't have much of an appetite at all, and as the day when on I got exhausted enough even lying down to start to feel nauseated. Yuck. It reminded me so much of M.E. and I really hate reminders of that horrible time! The weird thing was that it could not have been anything viral at all. We had had literally no exposure to people or places since Christmas Day, and my family were all healthy. I had a bit of a tummy ache to one side, but that was it really. I was somewhat encouraged later in the day on the Sunday when I read an entry in my pregnancy blog from Samuel's pregnancy at 19 weeks and 3 days, where I said that I had been feeling utterly physically wiped out for the past few days, although I didn't feel unwell with it at all. I put it down to a growth spurt on Samuel's part at the time, because I'd read that the baby more than doubles its weight and addes 3cm to its length between 17 and 20 weeks. I was 19 weeks and 4 days pregnant on Sunday when I read that, so it was very reassuring at the time!
The only thing that really bothered me that I couldn't explain was the tummy ache. It was "boring" and continually bothersome, and it felt to me like it was in my kidney area (the same one which had trouble with a kidney stone in July), but if I lay down and actually palpated my kidney then there was no tenderness. Weird. I wondered if it was IBS, because I get that a LOT and it can cause my whole bowel to feel "punched" and bloated, so maybe it's that? I didn't like how it was so one-sided though. As the days went by it became more bothersome and more defined, although I do have some of the same discomfort on the other side as well, and another patch of it lower down on the other side. It's weird. IBS? I don't know. Maybe (hopefully!) just my womb growing and putting pressure on stuff that gets annoyed easily and is trying to adjust? I would have thought it would be familiar from other pregnancies though, if that's the case?
Well on Bank Holiday Monday, Neil took the boys out for the day to his brother's, and they all went out for a walk and stayed for tea, and came home at bedtime. They were gone about 6 hours and it was REALLY weird after 4 hours without them. I really did not like it! It was so quiet, nice at first. And then after about the 4 hour mark, the house was too quiet, and it wasn't nice. Just appliances humming, and I couldn't help but think of life before the boys were born, and how BLAND it is without children. I had no idea, even since they've arrived, because I guess I haven't stopped to compare. I'm so thankful that they're here, making our house noisy and causing me strife, lol! I would not ever rather be without them, or EVER look forward to the days when we "get our lives back" (what sort of selfish phrase is that to say anyway?! I have my life in all its fullness, right here and now!) This is life, and life to the full. How bland and lonely it would be without children in the house! I was so glad to have them home again!
I expected to feel unwell and need to lie down most of the day, because that's how the previous day had been. I was not happy about it, because a combination of New Year and nesting kicking in means that I am DESPERATE to organise, clean, declutter, etc! So maddening when I can't do a thing, even hold a book!!!
I rested for a bit and then started to feel a bit better. I was drinking TONS of water, because I started to worry that the one-sided discomfort might mean a UTI of some sort, and I wanted to flush it out. I have urinalysis test sticks at home, and I had a little protein and some leukocytes in my urine - although that can be normal for me. So just in case, I drank a LOT of water. I did a few sitting-down organising activities and then felt well enough to get up and do some gentle sorting and organising, yay! I felt better that evening than I'd felt for days, so I was encouraged, but at the same time the pain in my side/tummy/back was getting gradually worse. I did notice similar pain on the other side again, but only if I pressed gently. The one-sided pain is there all the time now, no matter what I'm doing. It makes me anxious :(
Tuesday morning Neil went back to work and thankfully my energy was completely back to normal and I felt fine in myself, hooray! Just the pain remained, which was nagging and uncomfortable. I tested my urine through the day and it seemed okay actually - less protein, just a trace or maybe one + of leukocytes at most. So I felt better about it (and in all honestly, probably drank less fluids therefore!).
Today is Wednesday and the pain is STILL bothersome. I don't know what to make of it, but one thing that really disturbs me is the fact that it's right in my side and sometimes feels awfully similar to the pain I was having before the terrible pain of the kidney stone I had in the summer :S I'm so anxious about it today, having realised it could be a possibility. It's so excruciatingly painful (worse than labour, or probably on a level with the worst transition contractions, for me) and utterly unmanageable. I would HAVE to have pain-relief, and anti-nausea medication, and I am not sure I can have anything other than paracetamol because I am pregnant.
I am praying and praying that it's NOT a kidney stone. The one thing that encourages me is that even with a test stick I haven't got a trace of blood in my urine - I know that doesn't rule it out, but it's very common to have blood in the urine, even if it's just a trace amount. Last time I had a lot. At one point I had FRANK blood (just blood, no discernable urine). That was SCARY. Anyway. I also can't have an X-ray at any point to diagnose a kidney stone, even if my symptoms become severe (which I think is the only way to really diagnose a kidney stone?), because I am pregnant.
I phoned Heather and she said I should go to see the doctor. I didn't want to bother with that because it's such a huge faff and honestly there's hardly any point. They can't know one way or the other if it's a kidney stone (even when it WAS one last time, I had several doctors appointments in the run-up to the acute pain over a couple of weeks and they could only guess based on symptoms). And last time when it DID look like it could be a kidney stone, they basically just said to wait it out and hopefully it would pass. They said if the pain gets too bad I would have to go to A&E. Which is what happened. So I can't imagine they'll have anything particularly useful to say, and I don't want to waste a morning or worry about the boys (no way am I taking them with me, with the viruses we've suffered from, courtesy of the doctor's waiting room this past year!). But Heather says I should go, because the difference this time is that I'm pregnant and they may have something different to say or do. Also she is happy to watch the boys at home for me while I go to an appointment tomorrow morning, so I will phone as soon as the lines open in the morning and hopefully get an appointment with the one REALLY good doctor there. Heather also said to take some paracetamol to try and minimise the pain/discomfort so that I'm not dwelling on it and getting anxious so much, and drink plenty still. If it's a kidney stone, drinking plenty to flush it is a good idea anyway. Oh how desperately I'm hoping it's NOT one! It's a horrible prospect, to me, but worse than last time because the pain may not be able to be fixed with drugs. I can't fathom managing that, and being away from my boys again - and what if it somehow affects the pregnancy, in that being in tons of pain for a prolonged time can't be good for the baby, never mind me. And I know the uterus can get irritable and contract-y if there are nearby systems in turmoil. And I have full placenta previa! :S So much to worry about. But now that I've written it all down, I am going to TRY not to. It's not my natural way! But I'll try.
I had better post this for now, and hopefully get chance very soon to post the scan pictures from 17 weeks and get a belly pic for 20 weeks for the gallery. Next week (already!!!) is my big scan, though we already know that he's an Elijah! :) But it'll be exciting to see him and check him out thoroughly all the same, and get a better idea on what's what with my placenta.
Oh, I THINK I am finished with morning sickness, although I have had some very familiar nausea and queasiness this past 5-ish days, with the other symptoms. Sometimes it really felt soooo like morning sickness, so I wondered if it was just re-surfacing a bit. It was gone before 18 weeks, I think - I would say it cleared up officially at 17 weeks this pregnancy, but at 19 weeks I was queasy/nauseous again every day to some degree. It could be whatever is going on with my body though. Today I feel fine so far, nausea-wise, so I'm not going to say it's morning sickness unless the other symptoms go and queasiness is still there. I'm eating fine and my appetite is now good again, so that's good! :)
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I also didn't realise it had been quite so long since I updated last! Oops! I meant to come back with a belly picture for 18 weeks and the pictures from the scan of Elijah's measurements, BUT I still haven't scanned the pics onto the computer, and I never did get around to an 18 week belly pic :( MUST take one for 20 weeks. I usually do one dressed in the same clothes each time I'm pregnant at 20 weeks, but I didn't get one done for Samuel :(
Anyway, it's day time so the boys are about, therefore I really shouldn't spend long on a blog post (they're busily occupied at the moment, but that's not the point!). I just realised how long it has been and wanted to get started so at least I'd have done SOMETHING by the time I get a chance to finish it off in the evening sometime.
My bump is really (reeeeally) growing now! The top of my uterus is still small, to me. It's still 2 or 3 fingerwidths below my tummy button, and at 20 weeks it should be right at my tummy button. A fingerwidth is roughly a week. So at 21 weeks it should ideally be a fingerwidth (a centimetre) above my tummy button, and so on. But it is really filling out forwards and sideways. Sometimes I can feel that Elijah is lying across me - his head as a little hard round ball in my side. And then a few minutes later the little hard round ball will be up at the top, right under my tummy button! :) Having no placenta over the top of my uterus (which it usually is, for me), I can feel soooo much more, baby-shape wise, at the top.
I am wearing maternity clothes all the time now - I think I started that at 18 weeks, though I didn't show much in them yet, at least they just about fit me. They were kind of loose at the waist though, and now they're not. Elijah kicks and moves and wiggles a LOT, and his kicks are a lot stronger just these last few days. I LOVE feeling them! :) I can feel them easily with my hand, even his smaller wiggles, as it's really clear through my tummy now. I can just about see my tummy move if he does a big movement or clear kick to the front - it blips a bit :) LOVE this stage!!
I haven't been feeling too well lately. It took ages to get over that coldy/cough virus that we had before Christmas, and we're still coughing just a little bit now. I gave it to my sweet doula! :( I feel sooooooo bad. She must have caught it from me the day she went to the scan with me. Thankfully she didn't give it to any of her family, and was well in time for Christmas, but still I feel awful because she was so lovely to be with me, and it was SUCH a horrid bug!
Anyway over New Year's weekend I felt really unwell. I had no energy whatsoever and my arms felt heavy like lead, I couldn't even hold a book or they ached and ached, and my hands shook with the effort. I felt just wiped out physically, but not particularly the type of tired that comes from being sleep deprived. Just physical. I didn't have much of an appetite at all, and as the day when on I got exhausted enough even lying down to start to feel nauseated. Yuck. It reminded me so much of M.E. and I really hate reminders of that horrible time! The weird thing was that it could not have been anything viral at all. We had had literally no exposure to people or places since Christmas Day, and my family were all healthy. I had a bit of a tummy ache to one side, but that was it really. I was somewhat encouraged later in the day on the Sunday when I read an entry in my pregnancy blog from Samuel's pregnancy at 19 weeks and 3 days, where I said that I had been feeling utterly physically wiped out for the past few days, although I didn't feel unwell with it at all. I put it down to a growth spurt on Samuel's part at the time, because I'd read that the baby more than doubles its weight and addes 3cm to its length between 17 and 20 weeks. I was 19 weeks and 4 days pregnant on Sunday when I read that, so it was very reassuring at the time!
The only thing that really bothered me that I couldn't explain was the tummy ache. It was "boring" and continually bothersome, and it felt to me like it was in my kidney area (the same one which had trouble with a kidney stone in July), but if I lay down and actually palpated my kidney then there was no tenderness. Weird. I wondered if it was IBS, because I get that a LOT and it can cause my whole bowel to feel "punched" and bloated, so maybe it's that? I didn't like how it was so one-sided though. As the days went by it became more bothersome and more defined, although I do have some of the same discomfort on the other side as well, and another patch of it lower down on the other side. It's weird. IBS? I don't know. Maybe (hopefully!) just my womb growing and putting pressure on stuff that gets annoyed easily and is trying to adjust? I would have thought it would be familiar from other pregnancies though, if that's the case?
Well on Bank Holiday Monday, Neil took the boys out for the day to his brother's, and they all went out for a walk and stayed for tea, and came home at bedtime. They were gone about 6 hours and it was REALLY weird after 4 hours without them. I really did not like it! It was so quiet, nice at first. And then after about the 4 hour mark, the house was too quiet, and it wasn't nice. Just appliances humming, and I couldn't help but think of life before the boys were born, and how BLAND it is without children. I had no idea, even since they've arrived, because I guess I haven't stopped to compare. I'm so thankful that they're here, making our house noisy and causing me strife, lol! I would not ever rather be without them, or EVER look forward to the days when we "get our lives back" (what sort of selfish phrase is that to say anyway?! I have my life in all its fullness, right here and now!) This is life, and life to the full. How bland and lonely it would be without children in the house! I was so glad to have them home again!
I expected to feel unwell and need to lie down most of the day, because that's how the previous day had been. I was not happy about it, because a combination of New Year and nesting kicking in means that I am DESPERATE to organise, clean, declutter, etc! So maddening when I can't do a thing, even hold a book!!!
I rested for a bit and then started to feel a bit better. I was drinking TONS of water, because I started to worry that the one-sided discomfort might mean a UTI of some sort, and I wanted to flush it out. I have urinalysis test sticks at home, and I had a little protein and some leukocytes in my urine - although that can be normal for me. So just in case, I drank a LOT of water. I did a few sitting-down organising activities and then felt well enough to get up and do some gentle sorting and organising, yay! I felt better that evening than I'd felt for days, so I was encouraged, but at the same time the pain in my side/tummy/back was getting gradually worse. I did notice similar pain on the other side again, but only if I pressed gently. The one-sided pain is there all the time now, no matter what I'm doing. It makes me anxious :(
Tuesday morning Neil went back to work and thankfully my energy was completely back to normal and I felt fine in myself, hooray! Just the pain remained, which was nagging and uncomfortable. I tested my urine through the day and it seemed okay actually - less protein, just a trace or maybe one + of leukocytes at most. So I felt better about it (and in all honestly, probably drank less fluids therefore!).
Today is Wednesday and the pain is STILL bothersome. I don't know what to make of it, but one thing that really disturbs me is the fact that it's right in my side and sometimes feels awfully similar to the pain I was having before the terrible pain of the kidney stone I had in the summer :S I'm so anxious about it today, having realised it could be a possibility. It's so excruciatingly painful (worse than labour, or probably on a level with the worst transition contractions, for me) and utterly unmanageable. I would HAVE to have pain-relief, and anti-nausea medication, and I am not sure I can have anything other than paracetamol because I am pregnant.
I am praying and praying that it's NOT a kidney stone. The one thing that encourages me is that even with a test stick I haven't got a trace of blood in my urine - I know that doesn't rule it out, but it's very common to have blood in the urine, even if it's just a trace amount. Last time I had a lot. At one point I had FRANK blood (just blood, no discernable urine). That was SCARY. Anyway. I also can't have an X-ray at any point to diagnose a kidney stone, even if my symptoms become severe (which I think is the only way to really diagnose a kidney stone?), because I am pregnant.
I phoned Heather and she said I should go to see the doctor. I didn't want to bother with that because it's such a huge faff and honestly there's hardly any point. They can't know one way or the other if it's a kidney stone (even when it WAS one last time, I had several doctors appointments in the run-up to the acute pain over a couple of weeks and they could only guess based on symptoms). And last time when it DID look like it could be a kidney stone, they basically just said to wait it out and hopefully it would pass. They said if the pain gets too bad I would have to go to A&E. Which is what happened. So I can't imagine they'll have anything particularly useful to say, and I don't want to waste a morning or worry about the boys (no way am I taking them with me, with the viruses we've suffered from, courtesy of the doctor's waiting room this past year!). But Heather says I should go, because the difference this time is that I'm pregnant and they may have something different to say or do. Also she is happy to watch the boys at home for me while I go to an appointment tomorrow morning, so I will phone as soon as the lines open in the morning and hopefully get an appointment with the one REALLY good doctor there. Heather also said to take some paracetamol to try and minimise the pain/discomfort so that I'm not dwelling on it and getting anxious so much, and drink plenty still. If it's a kidney stone, drinking plenty to flush it is a good idea anyway. Oh how desperately I'm hoping it's NOT one! It's a horrible prospect, to me, but worse than last time because the pain may not be able to be fixed with drugs. I can't fathom managing that, and being away from my boys again - and what if it somehow affects the pregnancy, in that being in tons of pain for a prolonged time can't be good for the baby, never mind me. And I know the uterus can get irritable and contract-y if there are nearby systems in turmoil. And I have full placenta previa! :S So much to worry about. But now that I've written it all down, I am going to TRY not to. It's not my natural way! But I'll try.
I had better post this for now, and hopefully get chance very soon to post the scan pictures from 17 weeks and get a belly pic for 20 weeks for the gallery. Next week (already!!!) is my big scan, though we already know that he's an Elijah! :) But it'll be exciting to see him and check him out thoroughly all the same, and get a better idea on what's what with my placenta.
Oh, I THINK I am finished with morning sickness, although I have had some very familiar nausea and queasiness this past 5-ish days, with the other symptoms. Sometimes it really felt soooo like morning sickness, so I wondered if it was just re-surfacing a bit. It was gone before 18 weeks, I think - I would say it cleared up officially at 17 weeks this pregnancy, but at 19 weeks I was queasy/nauseous again every day to some degree. It could be whatever is going on with my body though. Today I feel fine so far, nausea-wise, so I'm not going to say it's morning sickness unless the other symptoms go and queasiness is still there. I'm eating fine and my appetite is now good again, so that's good! :)
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