23 Day to Go!

days to go until we're Noob Mum & Noob Dad! :D

Dunno where the time went, this pregnancy went soooo fast.  Aidan's hiccuping everyday now.  My belly is also feeling quite weighty when I lay on my side, so I've started putting a small pillow under my belly and it's more comfy now because it doesn't feel like it's "pulling" down anymore.  And the acid reflux hasn't improved yet but I don't expect it to during these last few weeks I suppose - boo - can't wait to be rid of that!  Otherwise no other new discomforts. :)

We had what I think was a little false alarm on Friday when I went for a normal check up - he had to check the cervix and of course I hate those exams haha. But before he did the exam he checked my blood pressure and it was about 160 / 110 and I told him it could be because of the exam he's about to do, but he wasn't convinced (just for safety's sake) that that's all it was, so he ended up admitting me to hospital immediately after the exam and said he's going to give me cortisone injections to develop baby's lungs just in case I had to have an emergency c-section done.

So I ended up staying in hospital over night where they monitored my blood pressure - which had already dropped by then and was close to normal the whole time I was admitted - and they monitored baby's heart beat a few times and gave me cortisone and put me on a low dose blood pressure pill for a few days.  The doc was satisfied that it did seem to be a false alarm so I was released the next morning. :)  The tests didn't show anything wrong and I didn't have pre-eclampsia or anything else and baby was doing perfectly too.  So that was the end of that. :)

While they were monitoring baby's heart beat, the machine also picked up that I was having braxton hicks contractions, and I was like HUH?  I had no idea I'd been having them.  Sometimes I'd feel my belly go hard, but I always assumed it was just because of baby moving around putting pressure around there, but the nurse said nope, it's BH, so it turns out I've been having them for a few weeks already but I didn't realize it - I thought I'd feel muscles contracting or something, but it's nothing like that at all.  Oh well, it's all normal for BH to begin long before baby's due, it's just the body "practicing" for labour.

The baby shower was also held the afternoon I was released, so I'm glad I was released earlier so that we didn't have to cancel the party! :)  Aidan got soooo many things that we have just about nothing left that we need to get for him, so that helped out a lot. :D  Will post some pics next time after I've got the photos ready. :D

Well I still have lots of baby clothes and blankies and stuff to wash, so let me get back to that!