Hello ladies! I've been gone a week from here! I didn't have internet for several days because we didn't have a living room anymore because of the new flooring DH was doing and that is where our internet connection is, so all I had was my phone and this thread moves so fast. I also have been having horrible back and hip pain and just having awful days emotionally. The whole flooring installation was so stressful and we had no place to even sit in the house but the bedroom and DH had to start the floor over again twice and it was just a rough few days.
Sooo I did catch up but sorry I can't reply to all of it.
Bean, I just feel so awful for you, I wish I could just come hug you! We are here if you need us and we certainly aren't judging you about not just leaving him. He is the father of your children and relationships are complicated!
Rebecca, glad the flight went well and all is well with DH's cousin's girlfriend?? did I get that right lol?
Perplexed I am glad all is okay and you got something for the itching, how awful that must've been.
So updates on me, sorry if this gets long, it's been a long week. My 1hr glucose test came back and it's irritating. The normal threshold for normal is under 140, but my OB's office uses the lower one at 130 and I was 133. Now they want me to do the 3 hour and I don't want to, the 1 hour made me so sick, and I've still randomly checked my sugars and they are normal. Due to my normal insulin resistance I rarely eat much sugar without pairing it with protein and I feel like that test is just not an accurate picture of how my body processes sugar. I think I'm going to wait till I see the midwife next week and see if I can just monitor for 2 weeks and if I get a bad number I'll take the 3 hour. I doubt they will let me though.
Also, My carpal tunnel turns out to be something called double crush syndrome that actually starts in my neck, so the chiro thinks she can fix it, and the hip pain and numbness I'm having is probably from piriformis syndrome which I likely had prior to pregnancy but got worse of course with the pregnancy. She found several spasming locked up muscles along the left side of my back and neck and "unlocked" them and did some adjustments so the pain was intense for about 2 days. Only thing I could do was ice it. Today it's much better so hopefully it will improve my function and pain over the next few treatments. My SI joint was our of place as well and she fixed that. She said I was a "hot mess" but I can blame my job for most of it. I go back Feb. 5th to see her again. I really hope she can fix the carpal tunnel because I literally don't sleep more than an hour at a time now and have to get up and walk around to get feeling back and the pain goes all the way up to my shoulder on the left.
I took two days off of work this week because of the back pain and I'm so upset I had to do that. It takes nearly a week away from my maternity leave and I was figuring I'd only get 6 weeks at 60% of my pay then 3 weeks paid with my vacation, but now I'll only get 2 weeks with my vacation and I can't afford to take more than one week off without pay for varying reasons I won't bore you all with. I really wanted at least 10 weeks
Unless we can save an extra $1000 on top of everything else we have to have money for I will only get 9 weeks and that is if I don't miss a single other day of work in the next 3 months and work till the last minute and with as much pain as I've been in I doubt that.
Sorry to bore you all, I guess I'm just frustrated these days. Good news is I'll be 29 weeks tomorrow!
As far as I know, things are going fine with her. She is still breastfeeding. I get all of my information through my MIL, and she doesn't say much about it. So, I guess it's good.
