What The Hell Was That!?

I don't know what on earth happened to me last night, but it was confusing and weird. I woke up at around midnight with some lower back pain, only on my right side though. It felt like I had strained a muscle or something, but nothing I did would make it go away. I got up to go the bathroom and started shivering like I was freezing cold, and I felt a little nauseous. But surprisingly, I was able to fall back asleep. I woke up about an hour later to the same symptoms, but wasn't able to sleep any longer, so I got on the Internet and tried to figure out what was wrong with me. Most things I read mentioned early labor and back labor, and advised me to time the pain to see if they were contractions, but my pain was constant and untimeable. But during my research it finally went away, so I got back in bed only to realize that I was hungry. And so at 3:30 in the morning I ate two bowls of cereal before going to lie back down. I only got about a half hour of rest (not sleep) before it was time for me to make TJ's lunch for work, and thankfully after that my symptoms seemed to be gone for good and I was finally able to get a few hours of sleep. But now this morning my side is sore like I pulled a muscle, and to top it all off I noticed my first stretch mark above my belly button (I didn't get any while I was pregnant with Kash so this was completely unexpected). Also, it is almost impossible for me to wipe myself after using the bathroom all of sudden, so I really think it's time for Liam to get out of there!

And Now We Wait...

Not much is going on this week, except for a whole lot of waiting. Now that the weekend is over and I have pretty much everything done and taken of for the baby to arrive, I'm just waiting for him to evacuate. He really should be coming any day now, he's much too big to stay in there any longer.

Everything I do is so exhausting. I dread taking a shower because it takes so much energy; By the time I'm clean and dressed, I'm too tired to even go wherever it was that I was getting clean for in the first place. I'm surprised I was even able to push through all the cooking I did this weekend. I made 6 meals that I could freeze to have ready to eat after the baby comes, and even though I saved a lot of time and energy by doing them at the same time, It was ridiculously draining. I plan on going for some long walks this week in hopes of putting myself into labor, but I'm not sure where I'll get the energy.

My heartburn has turned from annoying to massively painful. It shows up more at night time, and then stays all night long, I have to sleep with the bottle of Tums next to the bed.

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