Last Days of Being Pregnant

Here is a pregnancy update. The last and final one. Ever! These past few weeks have been really rough. The bigger and bigger I get the more uncomfortable I am (of course). I hate walking up the stairs, bending over, walking and I have no energy to do anything. I miss having energy! A couple Friday's ago (11 days) I woke up with my neck hurting. It's not uncommon for me to wake up with a stiff neck. I think its the area that I hold my stress so I get neck aches at least once every couple months.  This neck ache was different. It hurt worse and it didn't go away. The pain actually traveled down my arm to my hand. It was one of the worst feelings I have ever felt in my whole life. I suffered through the weekend. Each day it got more painful, even having to leave church after 40 minutes of sitting there in complete and total pain. I was miserable. On Monday, Cirdan called around and got a massage appointment for me hoping that would help. The pain went from a 9 to a 9. Didn't help. I read a bunch online and a lot of people said that it wasn't uncommon because when you are pregnant you have a lot of fluid which would cause a pinched nerve. They also said that going to the chiropractor helped. I have never been to a chiropractor and the last thing I wanted to do was go for the first time while being pregnant. But if that is what was going to help...it would be worth a try.  I had a doctor appointment on Tuesday and I wanted to ask her what she thought about a 9 month prego going to the chiro.

On Tuesday Cirdan left and flew out to Spokane early in the morning. He got a new car and would be driving back. I was on the verge of losing my mind with all the pain and I was happy when he walked through the doors at home. I told my doctor about my problem and said I thought I had a pinched nerve. She gave me a prescription for a muscle relaxer and said she wanted me to go to my family doctor for them to check out my heart to make sure something else wasn't going on. The doctor's office had no appointments open that day (Wednesday was the 4th of July) and the muscle relaxers made me feel really drowsy and dumb. I made an executive decision and scheduled an appointment with the Chiropractor (even though my doc didn't give the go ahead). That Tuesday was the first time going. I went in that Thursday and Friday. It hurt like heck to have them adjust me but I was hopeful.

Long story short....I am still in pain but it is getting better. I spend a lot of my day laying on the couch and icing my shoulder. Standing up for more than 20 minutes kills me. I am at a pain level at about a 5 now.

What else is going on? The baby is breech. He refuses to turn and put his head where it should go. My doctor talked about me getting a c-section this Monday or Tuesday but I asked her to at least try and turn the baby. I really didn't want a c-section. The thought of it makes me want to cry. She was at the hospital on Saturday so she scheduled for me to come in at 7:30am for the version. I can truly say it was one of the craziest experiences I have been through. They first had an ultrasound tech come and see where the baby was sitting. My little guys head was up in my ribs with his butt on the left hand side. My doctor then came in with another doctor to do the procedure. This is where the craziness happened. They put a bunch of Vaseline on my belly. My doctor then felt and placed one hand on the top of his head and the other around his butt. The doctor assisting held the ultrasound tool on my belly so they could see where the baby was moving. The first time they tried it seemed to be successful, until the other doctor was turned to talk to the nurse about putting more gel on the ultrasound tool and the baby got away and went right back up to my ribs. They then had to try again. People said it hurts a lot...which it hurt but not as much as I had thought. It was more just really uncomfortable. I tried to close my eyes and think about getting a deep tissue massage. The whole procedure didn't seem to take that long. Once he was in place they laid me on my side for an hour to monitor the baby and make sure his vitals were good. Everything looked good so they sent me home.

Fast forward to today....I didn't have a doctor appointment scheduled for this week so I called the office first thing this morning. My doctor is only in on Tuesday this week and is on vacation the rest of the week. They scheduled me for an appointment with one of the nurse practitioners. When she felt around for the baby she wasn't convinced that he was still down. She then listened to his heart which wasn't in a place it should be for a head down baby. They wanted me to go downstairs to get an ultrasound to see where he was. I was nervous and inside kind of felt like he had turned back around. My hopes were not up. Come to find out...the baby head was back in my ribs and his feet are where his head should be. Troublemaker! Ha ha. He had moved back around. I walked back up to the doc office kind of bummed. Now what???!! The nurse called my doctor who said that she wanted me back into the office Tuesday morning and to not eat or drink anything that morning in case they decided to do a c-section. At this point I was expecting the fact that I would be having a c-section and I need to put on my big girl panties and suck it up. Maybe this was for the best? I also realized this would be the last day I was pregnant. Crazy!

A few hours after being home the nurse called and said I am scheduled for a c-section tomorrow. They want me in the office at 9:00....at the hospital at 10:00 and the surgery would take place at noon. Wow wow wow!! It was becoming more real. I hung up the phone and wanted to throw up. I was really scared.

I have been resting today, spending time with Ella and Jett. My little Jetty won't be the baby in the family anymore and it kind of makes me sad. I have given him lots of hugs and kisses today and hope that he will love the baby when we come home. Kaiya is at nationals for dance in Oregon with her Dad. I am kind of bummed she will miss coming to the hospital but she will be able to meet the baby on Thursday night. We are also planning on face timing from the hospital. Ella is super excited to hold 'her baby'. She has been anxiously waiting to meet him for a while now and talks about it a lot.