Well, here i am at 38 weeks and 5 days pregnant.. I am really tired.. that could be because this is the second night in a row that I have been awake at 430 am.. Of course, last night, i was going back to bed at this time.
So, night before last, Tuesday, i stayed home from work to get stuff done and i did really good throughout the day.. I wasn't even lazy, i actually worked from home. But, about 7pm, we were out in the car and i got a contraction (nothing new here, i've been having these forever!) but this one was a little different and made my back twinge really bad. So, then we started eating dinner and i could hardly eat because my back hurt so much. So, Tuesday night i ended up having contractions with a horrible back ache about every 10-15 minutes until 11pm. The back ache did not let up between contractions, but just hurt. I finally got out of bed at 230 and stayed up til 430 trying to get comfortable before i went back to bed.
So, Wednesday morning, i woke up and was a little uncomfortable, and i went to work for about an hour. The back ache came back with a vengeance. I went home and tried to sleep. I started having contractions every 8-10 minutes and was so miserable that i was sure this was "it". I finally fell asleep for 2 hours and felt much better, back ache sort of went away. Then Wednesday night, we went out to dinner and while sitting at Red Lobster, I all of a sudden got the back ache again and started having contractions (once again around 7 pm). By the time we got home from dinner ( i was miserable), the contractions were every 5 min timeable but were not intense. I would call them a 2 on a scale of 0-10, but the back ache was like someone had stepped on my back with a pair of cleats on. These contractions have lasted until now, 4-5 min apart and it is now 440 am on Thursday.
I got very close to calling the dr yesterday, but they went away, so i decided to wait because i have a dr appt in about 6 hours. I don't know if i am in very early labor, apparently some women have labor on and off for three days and then all of a sudden, BAM, they are in serious labor. I'm hoping that this is that and not nothing. I'm hoping to at least be dilated more or effaced more or something, anything, that lets me know that this has all been doing something. I'm absolutely exhausted, one from losing sleep (Sean is so asleep that he acts like I'm horribly annoying for flopping all over the bed) or two because i am having a really large muscle contract constantly.. i liken it to running for two days straight.
I am wondering if this "slow labor" is because the baby is posterior. IF the baby's face is facing up and not towards the back, it can cause the bony part of the baby's skull to rub the back of my pelvis which can create horrible back pain and slow labor because the baby just doesn't fit as well. I am trying to change positions to get baby Peters to rotate, but nothing yet. I guess i will have more information soon. I think i'm going to go make a cup of tea and read some reviews and watch horrible morning TV.
Oh, as far as names, we have settled on 3 that we really like. Once baby Peters pops out, we will see what he looks like and he will either end up as Cooper, Wesley, or Lachlan. I'm becoming very fond of Lachlan (Land of Lakes in Scottish) because it is different, Scottish, but manly and strong. It is also not SUPER different, it is in the top 1000 names..so, yeah. We have made some progress.
Tired of being pregnant and in pain,
Kristen
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