freakshow.

so ive decided that the first three months, and the last two months of pregnancy are pretty much the most uncomfortable and the most disgusting. i basically traded vomitting and gagging daily for heartburn like lava in my throat and leaky nipples. awesome.

in the past, i dont know, maybe three weeks i have woken up a handful of times with grossness on my shirt because i have inadvertantly lactated on myself. how weird and gross is that? so not only do my massive boobies call attention to themselves because they are absolutley huge, they now also lay claim to an awesome fountain effect. i am a freakshow. its a good thing i really dont need to go out in public very often.

ok, now for a real update. the contractions are still coming on daily but nothing that has forced me to go to the hospital to get monitored again. although after telling my ob about an episode the other night, i think she wouldve preferred me going just to make sure everything was ok. but im pretty convinced that since the contractions are the worst at night, they are being brought on by dehydration, so once i drink gallons of water they slowly go away and then my sleeplessness is due to having to pee every 12.7 minutes instead of the cramps accompanied by what i can only describe as a charlie horse of my entire stomach.

in other news, we're in the new house! woohoo! and i am convinced that there is a ghost in the averys room. i keep seeing stelly (our bulldog) sneak in there after i think that ive shut the door. so i go to shut the door... again... taking extra care to make sure the handle has 'locked' into place and the second i turn my back i hear a 'click' and the door pops open again... maybe i just have an overactive imagination sitting around this house by myself.

oh pregnancy.

just got back from the ob a bit ago...

it was just a regular check up, but after telling the dr that i was cramping pretty much all day yesterday and i havent been feeling him move a whole lot the past couple days, they decided to hook me up to a fetal monitor for a non-stress test. i was thinking the lack of movement was just due to him having less room, but i guess they just wanted to make sure.

so i basically hung out with the monitors strapped on and i was supposed to click a button everytime i felt the baby move. it was kinda weird... and i decided during the test, which lasted about 15-20 minutes, that we are so lucky that we dont walk around hearing the baby's heartbeat constantly. at one point he dropped from the 150's all the way down to the 80's, and hearing the drop freaked me out. the dr said its normal that babies heartrates do go up and down and it wasnt anything to worry about.

after looking over the results, the dr determined that i am having mild contractions so i was lucky enough to get an internal exam! yay!.. total sarcasm for those of you that dont know the sarcasm that is krp. but i am all good, and my cervix is still closed, woohoo! i just need to monitor the number of contractions i have in an hour, and how often my little man moves.

now im real tired and ive decided that a non-stress test is in actuality a bit stressful. i was feeling like things were normal and then got hooked up to a machine. oh pregnancy.