Down to one hand's worth of counting the weeks... eeeeeeeek! Maybe less, if she decides she doesn't want to wait that long! Of the 36 mamas in my due-in-July Facebook group, 9 have popped already so we have 10 babies! It's been crazy and though I don't have any of the symptoms/issues that the others have had, it still freaks me out that it could realistically happen any time now!
I'm trying to bump up my productivity now that I'm feeling better. It took all last week for the ear infection to clear up, and the whole time I was taking the antibiotics I felt pretty crappy even though I was avoiding dairy and taking them with food and all that. I'm sure they also caused the raging yeast infection I'm dealing with now. I was uncomfortable enough from that and leftover ear pain that I had a lot of trouble sleeping last week. Now that I'm off the antibiotics and on yeast infection cream I'm feeling tons better. It must have been causing more discomfort than I expected because I slept like a rock the first night for the first time in weeks!
On Monday I saw Sue and everything looked okay, except my blood pressure was creeping up, so with that and the incessant foot swelling she decided to test me for pre-eclampsia. The prospect of that scared me to death, since that's the reason several of my July girls were induced this early, but luckily the labs looked okay and Amelia's non stress test was perfect. Still waiting to hear back on the 24-hour urine test since they wanted me to start it Tuesday morning, so it got dropped off this morning. I see Sue again tomorrow to follow up, probably to check blood pressure again and do another non stress test. I'm suspecting my blood pressure was more from the lack of sleep and the general feeling of unwell-ness over the last couple of weeks than from anything else, so we'll see how it looks after a few good nights of sleep. Then next Tuesday I go back and see Dr. B, and she'll check for dilation and stuff and we'll figure out a plan for appointments so I can still save some gas and see Sue a few more times before the main event. I'm far more comfortable with Sue than I am with Dr. B.
My feet are ridiculous. I'm afraid to take a picture but I probably should at some point. I've been avoiding salt (which is hard enough, but to do that while also avoiding dairy made for some interesting half-meals the last couple of weeks), drinking a crap ton of water (evidenced in my 24-hour urine test, which I had to sacrifice a Tupperware for because I filled up the jug they gave me even though I attempted to drink less... TMI, I know, sorry!), keeping them up when I can (noticed that the computer chair is the worst possible chair for me to sit in for my feet, but my back loves it), and trying both ice baths and warm baths. I think I've narrowed it down to a circulation issue since the ice baths did nothing, avoiding salt did nothing, and drowning myself in jugs upon jugs of water didn't seem to help much either. Sue thinks that possibly Amelia is compressing some veins so that the extra fluid can't really get pumped back up my legs. Possibly compounded by my heart murmur, which everyone keeps telling me not to worry about. A warm bath before bed does help the swelling go down a bit more in the night, so I'll stick to doing that since that's the only thing that helps.
I've gotten some decent cleaning done today plus swimming with Mom and didn't feel the overwhelming need to nap, but it's creeping up on me now so I should probably give in for a little while. ;) I've been typing up a template contract for composing music for a web series, which is taking a lot longer than I anticipated but once it's done I won't have to do it all again. Then, maybe I can start working on some episodes soon! I should have something else coming up too, helping a friend's dad write his second book (typing, research, probably some editing), so we'll see how that goes once we get started. At least he'll pay me a little bit for it and it's definitely something I can do from home on the couch :)
Work is still going well for B. His ankle is bothering him some, but mostly he's doing fine. :) He should get his first full paycheck tomorrow or Friday, which is good because bills are due and I'm all kinds of antsy about that! We should be able to take care of the end-of-the-month bills and the beginning-of-the-month bills, then we'll be on a regular schedule for stuff, but this extra week waiting for a paycheck has about driven me insane. I need to work in some other bills that have been taken care of by our parents, but I can't really do that until I see what a typical paycheck is like. Then we'll work on a new mattress and getting him a little pickup. Naptime, even though Amelia's going crazy at the moment!
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