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January 9, 2003
25 wks 1 day
On the baby front things are going well. This little guy is still nice and secure in my belly where he should be. And the contractions have not been really at all. This past week I have tried to kind of take it easy. Well, as easy as I could with working and taking care of 3 children on my own, with my husband being gone on his business trip. I was a little scared a few nights ago though.I had gotten home from work and was fixing the kids something to eat. As I was standing at the stove I all of a sudden started getting these horrible pains in my belly. It wasn't contractions, it was more like someone was cutting the underside of my belly over and over. I could hardly stand up. The only way I could get it to stop was to sit down and kind of scrunch up, not letting my belly be stretched at all. I kept sitting down every few minutes in between trying to get the kids taken care of, before I would have to sit back down because it was hurting so bad. After doing this through getting dinner sitting down was no longer working so quickly, and I still had a little girls bath to get done. I got the boys to get their baths and sat for a while while they did. Then it was time to get Brianna in, I slowly did so, never totally unbending as I walked to the bathroom and washed her hair and helped her get scrubbed. By this time I had painfully tucked the boys in bed and went and sat on my bed while Brianna soaked her fingers for a little while. They had painted w/ blue paint at daycare, so she had some blue fingernails that needed to soak clean. When she had soaked for a few minutes I had her get out, which she disagreed with and thought she should stay in longer. She came in my room with her pick and conditioner so I could get her hair untangled without having to get up. She is pretty good about doing that when she knows I'm trying to rest a bit, and that night I didn't even have to ask her to bring it because she knew mommy was hurting.
Finally after everyone was in bed I went back to my room and just kind of lounged there for a while hoping the pain would just go away and I could quit worrying. After about 20 minutes of resting and rubbing my belly, just as I was about to call the doctor, the pain started to go away. After all of that I think it was just how this little guy was laying, pushed out in the front of my belly, that was causing all of the pain. He, most of the time, prefers to lay out or down there, whichever, anyway out in front. But, never has it felt like that. I think he must have been pushing on my spine or something and really getting some leverage to have that much force. But, after I rubbed and rubbed I got him to move some and things felt so much better. About an hr after the pain began I started to worry that something was tearing loose and when it didn't stop I really began to think something was really wrong because the baby wasn't moving around and it hurt so bad, I almost was waiting for worse to happen, for me to start bleeding or something.
I know I shouldn't have gotten so worried about such things, but with my past pg bleeding history I just didn't know what to think since I had never had anything like that before.
Actually the baby was a little less active the begining of the week, but has made up for it once again yesterday and today. If I recall he did that not too long ago. It must be that he is doing growing or maturing for a couple of days, or that he is so active for so many days staright, that he just wears himself out.
Last night I was laying there in bed and just talked to him and watched my belly moving and changing all different shapes. I tell ya, even though this is #4, it still amazes me how all this occurs. How something so very, very tiney, can turn into a little human being growing inside of my body. Life and pregnancy is just such an awesome thing.
The family
As the tagline says, things are pretty much so back to normal. Or at least as normal as they can be getting back into our routine with my husband being gone still. At least our morning synchronization has started back up. In a way it was nice to have the kids off school. It was much simpler in the mornings for me and not such a coordinating act. I would get up and get ready and fix my & my oldests lunch and then get everyone else up and moving while I finished up. We all left at the same time, the younger two went with me and I dropped them off at daycare on the way to work, and the oldest walked across the street to the neighbors( which were so wonderful to keep an eye on him the 4 days after I went back to work and when school started back yesterday). Another good thing about not having school was that the younger two didn't have to worry about eating before heading out the door. They just got out of bed and got ready, then ate breakfast at daycare.
Now, its back to getting up a little earlier for me, and making sure I get each son up at the necessary time and out the door to catch their respective bus. While, getting myself ready, packing lunches and fighting with a little girl to get out of bed and dressed before going back to sleep, so when I'am ready she is ready for me to do her hair.
Morning is pretty much so the same routine as before, except I have to remember to get Joshua up right after Tyler gets on the bus, instead of waiting a while like I used to do. That is because over break he got contacts. The doctor thought he was a little young to get them, but said that he would see. I personally had mixed feeling about it, and so did my husband. I never got contacts until I was a Junior or Senior in High School. But, he has wanted them for about a year, there were girls in his class last year in 5th grade that had them, so it made him want them also. I kept telling him he wasn't old enough, and I didn't think he was mature enough or responsible enough. That was kind of the Dr's thing, plus he didn't think Joshua would be able to put them in and take them out. The Dr. had suggested to him to wait until after he was 12 and then consider them. Although Joshua is only 11, he forgot that he is in Middle School, and glasses aren't always cool. In remembering that he was in Middle School he asked me if I would agree to let them try to put a lens in his eye and see if he could take it out and then reinsert it. To the Dr and Tech suprise Joshua took it right out and put it right back in. They were just amazed and so was I. The Dr said he did it so good, and was even handicapped by having his eyes dialated and not able to see well. The tech said he did it better than alot of adults, it was amazing she said again.
So, he is trying them out for a week then we go back and order them after the Doc makes sure they fit well.
Now we just have to get my husband back home to get the evening routine back on track!
Well I have rambled on and on so I had better get going.
If you have stuck in there, thanks for reading!
Jimmy will be home this weekend, hopefully anway, they have to get all the training in which they were delayed doing because of the Marines have other meetings. So, hopefully his flight plans stay as planned.
When he gets back I have told him we really need to get serious about the name issue. I would like the be refering to this little guy by name instead of baby boy!!
Hope you are all doing well and having a good year so far. Prayers to all of you mommies out there and all you TTC.
God bless,
Bridgett and baby boy
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