I definitely thought with all this placenta drama that I wouldn't still be pregnant by now. Looks like I get my wish of being 25 when I give birth. Tomorrow I turn 25 - and now I feel bitter that I wanted my birthday to arrive before my baby, because I got my wish - and it sucks.
I will be 39 weeks tomorrow, and I've been suffering terrible sciatica for a week and a half now. Every morning when I wake up I feel insufferable pain in my ass region. That's right folks, my freaking butt (and tailbone and left quad). It sucks. I can't walk into work, through the mall or in the neighborhood without being stared at. Yesterday I even got a "Yo Gurl, you look like you gonna pop!" I was like "Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for." Why else would a hugely pregnant girl with a severe limp be walking around the neighborhood for an hour (not to mention walking at the rate of a disabled snail's pace)? I have luckily found some minor relief with extra strength tylenol, but I feel extremely guilty taking it - so I try to limit myself to when I'm in the most pain - like in the mornings, and afternoon and evenings. I just hope and pray that they are right when they say that I will feel immediate relief once the baby is born. I can't imagine having to take my little guy home while still having a hard time getting around the house.
Due to this pain, my house has been a disaster... well until today. I had this surge of energy today and felt the need to vacuum, sweep, dust, etc. most of the day! Thank goodness because the state of my house was really getting to me - and today I felt able to fix that. Granted it took 3 times as long to do it all - but it feels so much better.
I also took tomorrow off work. Last Thursday I was in such immense pain just walking around work that I told my boss I was taking Monday off - due to pain and my birthday. Will happens to have tomorrow off so we figured it would be a nice day to spend as just the two of us - which might be the last time for a while. Labor seems pretty imminent at this point, considering my constant contractions among other "symptoms" - so I better take any chance to hang out with my hubby that I can. We have a day of food and movies planned. I think we're going out for breakfast then hitting up a movie - and we have reservations at Texas de Brazil tomorrow night - and at some point I plan to get a pedicure, you know .... so I'm prepared for those stirrups. ; )
I am seriously just mentally done being pregnant. I know I'm supposed to "embrace" this time - but I can't. If I didn't have sciatica - I could probably last another 2 weeks, but with this stupid pain there is no way! I really really really hope relief will be instant like they keep saying.
And that was my complainer post, folks. Hopefully we can now return to our regularly scheduled programming .... well soon at least.
