so, i couldnt fall asleep last night. mike and i didnt go to bed until about 1:30 or so and even then it took me a little while to fall asleep. and after that, i was up every hour or so because my stomach was hurting (not contractions, just muscle aches).
i woke up around seven to go to the bathroom (for the third time, surprise!) and when i laid back down, i finally felt ... mostly comfortable and i slept for two more hours.
around 10 mike and i decided to go get coffee. so we went to starbucks and he got a pumpkin spice chai, of course. and i got...decaf. we came back home and i .... laid on the couch. it was about 11 at this point and i was starting to realize that i wasn't going to "wake up" for the day - which should have been obvious from the start, considering i rarely sleep past 830 and once im up, im up and awake.
so i laid on the couch and watched tv with mike (season finale of dr. who that we had recorded on DVR!!) around 130 mike got up to take a shower and start getting ready for work and i ... WENT TO SLEEP. i woke up a little on and off between 130 and 245 when he left for work. i kissed him goodbye and went back to sleep for another 30 minutes or so, waking up at 330 - still tired.
after that i played around on the computer and read a lot of entries from not always right - a hilarious website mike 'stumbled on' last night. we read a few pages of it together before bed, and i wound up reading a bunch of it today while laying around, being lazy, and doing virtually nothing.
i went to pick up dinner and mike came home for 30 minutes to eat. when he was about to leave, i was ready to go back to bed. but i didn't...not yet, anyway. although, i could easily fall asleep right now if i let myself - oh the joys of pregnancy fatigue.
but, despite the slight inconvenience of feeling SO tired, it has been GLORIOUS to not have anywhere to go today, or really anything to do (i mean, im sure i could have found SOMETHING....but i was just TOO tired).
and speaking of all things pregnancy - here's the latest for those of you i havent had a chance to update yet.
for the last two weeks, every time i would work at starbucks i would get AWFUL contractions (one every few minutes) that at first were just annoying but escalated on sunday to being actually VERY painful and causing me to stop what i was doing. i was nervous because everything id read said that if you have more than 4 braxton hicks in an hour, or if they dont let up after you stop what youre doing and drink water, to call the doctor, which i had done a few days before....but these contractions were worse. i went home and laid down and did start feeling a bit better....and assumed i wasnt in labor because they didnt get worse or closer together. i had an appointment on monday anyway, so i went in and talked to the doctor about everything that had been going on.
she checked to see if i was dialated (which i wasn't, luckily) but told me that if every time i worked i was having constant contractions and cramps that the odds of me starting to dialate early were pretty good and that continuing to work on my feet could cause preterm labor.
so, she said no more starbucks for me. no more spending lots of hours on my feet at a time. i dont have to be on bedrest and i can still work at the studio editing but nothing that requires me to stand/walk around for very long...which is a huge relief for my body, but a strange sensation. i really had planned on working through the end of my pregnancy (as close as i could get) and its strange for me to be taking so much time off work (its looking like about 12 weeks now)...but i know its the right thing. for as ready as i feel to have this baby, i dont want bella to be at risk to come too early. i want her to be full term and healthy! so i did what the doctor said and worked my last four hour shift on tuesday. . . and now im officially done at starbucks until bella is at least 6 weeks old. weird. this is the longest i have ever gone not working at starbucks since i started, six years ago (happy 6 year anniversary to me this month!)
in the first two days after being pulled from work i had hardly any contractions, just the normal braxton hicks they describe in the books - not super frequent, irregular, not painful. such a change from the other contractions i had been having.
then, yesterday, mike and i were both off and had to go to target to finish up some baby prep shopping. we were out and about and i was on my feet for about three or four hours and started having contractions about an hour or so in to shopping that continued to get worse (not painful, just annoying) the more i stood up. finally i told mike we had to call it quits on the shopping and head home. i had pretty bad contractions most of the way home but the longer i was sitting, the more they tapered off. i went home, laid down, and took it easy the rest of the day and the contractions laid off.
then i went to britt's house for fondue dinner and dessert with her and anna and it was delicious!! and we had a ton of fun!
today, since ive been so incredibly lazy, i've had very few contractions, which is a relief. maybe this baby will make it to term, after all.
monday i'll be 35 weeks, or as anna told me - 35/35 - 35 weeks along, 35 days to go. WILD! i cant believe i only have 36 days until bella is due and that she might be here before then. crazy!! but i cant wait to meet her!
so, after writing this i fully intended to pick up a book and start reading, but i just used the book to kill a giant spider that was crawling across the living room floor....ick.
maybe ill just go back to sleep!
xo.
m.
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