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Baby Dropped
June 29, 2002 21:40
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I thought my water broke Wednesday night, but it didn’t. I won’t elaborate on what it was, but it wasn’t ruptured membranes.

Had another OB check on Thursday. Weight up another two pounds, blood pressure 130/74. I was a little worried about that, but the nurse didn’t seem to mind, and the doctor didn’t say a word about it. I had been using one arm to get Adam into my lap (with a little struggling), so that may have been it. I hope so, because if my blood pressure goes up again this time, even after I’ve been trying to do so well with lowering salt intake, I may give up, drive myself over to Pullman, and eat a large deep-dish meat-lover’s pizza from Pizza Hut. I mean, if nothing I do makes any difference, why not indulge? We’ll see what the reading says next week.

Baby dropped today! I had a few contractions that were pretty uncomfortable, so I went to take a bath. By the time I got out, it was noticeable how m...
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Mucus - yummy!
June 25, 2002 21:42
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More mucus yesterday, but still no sign of impending labor. A few contractions here and there, but nothing to get very excited about.
Lost My Plug?
June 24, 2002 21:43
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I think I lost my mucus plug yesterday. I have had no vaginal discharge for the past several days, then yesterday there was a big, stringy glop when I went to the bathroom (no bloody tinging, though), and then no mucus since then. I keep doubting myself, thinking maybe it was just an increase in regular vaginal discharge, but then I realize that if that were the case, I’d probably still be having it. I called my doctor today, and he was non-plussed. He said even if I did lose the mucus plug, it was ok, because I’m almost 36 weeks. His two comments were: “You can lose the plug and still be a long way from delivery” and “We can’t put it back!” Heh.

I’m still having contractions, though they aren’t very hard, for the most part. I have had a little burst of nesting activity – weeding the strawberries, washing some dishes and laundry, doing lots of filing, and then yesterday – a sudden urge to...
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Fetus Not Sleeping
June 20, 2002 21:51
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I’m beginning to wonder when, if ever, this kid is going to sleep for awhile. She seems to be awake for really looooong stretches of time – like, four hours or so. She moves and wiggles and turns, so of course she’s dreadfully healthy, but my goodness, that kinda stuff can exhaust you! Still having lots of contractions, too – another energy sapper. Luckily I don’t have any marathons scheduled or anything. I do whatever household work I plan to do first thing in the morning after breakfast and email check, when I still have some energy, then just veg the rest of the day.
Abdominal Pressure
June 19, 2002 21:45
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Another OB check today. For the most part everything was normal – weight’s up two pounds from the last visit, blood pressure’s at 112/66. Urine’s normal, fetal heartbeat is normal, and the doc says I “look good”. The only notable thing that happened was toward the end of the visit, when the doctor helped me up from lying down. He held out his hand, which I took, and as he pulled upward something not-good happened. I don’t really know how to explain it, except that I felt some very painful pressure on my abdomen, left of midline, on the southern hemisphere of the globe.. errr.. belly. It took my breath away, and I kind of fell backward. Mike says I “yelped”. It took me a few minutes to recover, and the doctor kept asking if I was ok. I couldn’t really explain the feeling, but as best I can tell some of her bones pushed against some of mine. I may have been contracting at the time, and pulling on my (now non-existent) stomach...
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Bags Not Packed Yet
June 05, 2002 21:46
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We had an OB check today, and another on the 22nd of May. Both were, not surprisingly, completely uneventful. In the last one, I had actually lost a half-pound, and this one I gained six-and-a-half. The doctor didn’t seem overly concerned about it, and just said we’d watch it. More importantly, my blood pressure this week was down to 112/56 from 122/82. That has me very pleased, since it was high blood pressure that caused me to be induced last time. It rather makes all the self-imposed salt-deprivation worthwhile, somehow. Not enjoyable, by any means, but worthwhile. We go back again for another visit in 2 weeks, then start going every week.

I still haven’t packed the hospital bags, though it’s on my to-do-in-the-near-future list. I have gotten around to updating the list (with the benefit of prior experience) and printing it out, now I just need to track down some bags and figure out what outfits to put in them. I still haven’t located a ...
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