4.18.2018
40 WEEK pregnancy update!!
Happy due date, baby!!
We are SO ready to meet you! And, well, because we've never done this before, we're actually ready to find out if we're ready. :P So much preparation and apprehension and worry can go into having a baby for the first time, we have been doing a mix of preparing for the worst and hoping for the best... and now we're really anxious to see how hard it actually will be.
And, as I have shared in all my pregnancy updates but now more than ever, I am so proud of my body and grateful that I've had a textbook experience so far and everything is going as it should.
But, I am getting a little uncomfortable and having some weird side effects... figured I should document them here!
I've been having Braxton Hicks contractions for 4+ weeks now and they are not comfortable, but not painful. Just feels like my belly now has an oversized bowling ball in it and I can't slouch, pick up something from the ground, move much at all. I understand real contractions will also feel like that, but with intense pain-like sensations too. Oh, boy.
My newest uncomfortable symptom is tingling and pain in my hands. I've had swollen feet/ankles since week 20-something but have been wearing compression socks a lot of the time, but now my hands are also swelling. It feels like when you fall asleep on your hand and then have sort-of "pins and needles" tingly pain. It's worst when I grab something (hairbrush, pen, knife, you know, normal things).
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We are SO ready to meet you! And, well, because we've never done this before, we're actually ready to find out if we're ready. :P So much preparation and apprehension and worry can go into having a baby for the first time, we have been doing a mix of preparing for the worst and hoping for the best... and now we're really anxious to see how hard it actually will be.
And, as I have shared in all my pregnancy updates but now more than ever, I am so proud of my body and grateful that I've had a textbook experience so far and everything is going as it should.
But, I am getting a little uncomfortable and having some weird side effects... figured I should document them here!
I've been having Braxton Hicks contractions for 4+ weeks now and they are not comfortable, but not painful. Just feels like my belly now has an oversized bowling ball in it and I can't slouch, pick up something from the ground, move much at all. I understand real contractions will also feel like that, but with intense pain-like sensations too. Oh, boy.
My newest uncomfortable symptom is tingling and pain in my hands. I've had swollen feet/ankles since week 20-something but have been wearing compression socks a lot of the time, but now my hands are also swelling. It feels like when you fall asleep on your hand and then have sort-of "pins and needles" tingly pain. It's worst when I grab something (hairbrush, pen, knife, you know, normal things).
