Pre-Labor Update

My nausea is back. I'm assuming this (un)pleasant recurrence is all about the end of pregnancy. LB is going to come out the same way he started...with me SICK. I'm trying to eat smaller meals more often and upping my protein but the nausea just won't go away.

Ugh.

I'm starting to get stronger contractions that are going around my back as well as my belly, but only when I'm out walking. They seem to come about every two or three minutes and they're increasingly painful. I come home, sit down on the couch, and they subside. They are also mostly in the afternoons and evening with some overnight. Still irregular. Still ramping up.

Anything else...just that I'm really, really achey and LB has started to do the cervix pinch regularly. Oh, and my bowels are moving quite well. Same hip and pelvic floor pain but a massage and chiropractor appt. actually helped.

Whoo boy!

I've scheduled the acupunture induction for Monday. It's a full moon and I'm going with the urban myth that babies like to be born on the full moon. Monday is good 'cause M. has some unemployment job fair to go to in the a.m. Monday is GOOD.

So we wait. Tomorrow is another NST, another doc appointment, and if the weather holds, another walk. Then Friday I'm going to try to get into my old swim suit and we're going to the POOL. That sounds SO NICE.

Oh, and tomorrow is also 39 weeks...39 WEEKS...39 WEEKS....