Hey Mamas!!! :love I'm sorry I've been MIA ~ just so busy and haven't made it at all to the computer in two whole days! And that's my only internet access, my desk top (no phone or laptop or anything.)
I've been doing too much and it got me. I laid low Monday (birth day) and Tuesday and then Wednesday Peachy had her first CST appt. and we stopped at the store after. Thursday we laid low and then Friday I took the kiddos to the pool which really just meant sitting in a chair in the dappled shade nursing baby for me. Saturday was BIG. DH and I took the kids 1.5 hours away to our most favorite Amish farm day where it's all about farming talk, homesteading, anti-GMOs, etc. and the best
@Wild Rose, you'd be in heaven!!) is the FOOD!! TONS of delicious food all from the local organic farmers and omg is it delicious and so, so nutrient-dense!! And free!
I walked for a little over 3 hours, over uneven pasture and stopped to sit here and there and nurse The Peach and eat some yummy food but I carried her in my left arm a lot and my pelvic ligaments were pretty sore by the time we left. And then yesterday, Sunday, I took the kids to the pool again and again, sat and nursed The Peach.
I've had a headache now for two days and it's a weird one, real stabby. I was SOOOO looking forward to our chiro appt. scheduled for this morning as I figured I'm just all out of whack but I woke in the middle of the night FREEZING and shivering so badly that I got muscle cramps in my legs. I got up and grabbed the heavy down comforter and then I looked and saw it was 75F in the bedroom and it occurred to me that I likely had a fever... So I took my temp. and it was 101.4.
My right breast was REALLY hard and sore so I figured a touch of mastitis. I woke again at 5:30am and was SO hot and parched. I gave in and took a couple ibuprofen at that point because my head was still aching and man did I feel awful.
I wandered over to my mom's bedroom and just laid on her bed and asked her to get the baby for me. So I've been useless (except for my milk-making abilities) all day. By 11am I went to lay down with the baby and slept like the dead for 2 hours and woke just drenched in sweat. I guess the fever broke? My mom suggested that maybe this is that virus (the headache/fever virus) that's been making its rounds in this house since early July.... I don't know which I'd rather have! Mastitis isn't contagious and I'm terrified of the baby getting the headache/fever virus...
I'm all showered and feeling much better but still weak and I know I need to lay low. Man, I wish I'd been able to get adjusted this morning!
I've been thinking of ALL OF YOU these past days and missing you all and wondering who has had babies...
@BarefootBrooke, thank you for stepping up and starting the chat thread this week! You still have all week to go into labor! So exciting! And
@catladymeow, your pre-labor sounds like mine with all of that mucous plug and cramping! At least we know you just can't be pregnant forever, right? Baby has to come out sometime. :love
@Wild Rose! You're so close! Tomorrow is your due date, eh? Yippee! And
@americanjuly, sounds promising!!
@jtbuko ~ wow! Congratulations!! I can't wait to read more!
Off to check the rest of the threads!