Wow need to catch up!
Big congrats on team pink krissi, or provisional team pink maybe!
Really sorry to hear you're still feeling rotten Angie. I have now come down with yet another cold... I'm not sleeping well and I'm getting really fed up. And so hormonal, the past few days I've been crying at everything. Yesterday I got up and went to the gym (as I normally do on a Saturday morning) and was crying in the gym because I hadn't slept more than 3 hours. No word of a lie. My mum thought I was hiding something, she couldn't believe I was that emotional just because I hadn't slept!
Good to hear from you bernie, gorgeous potential names!
Well I had a manic day yesterday (and on 3 hours sleep). After my spinning and training I went to see a cranial osteopath for my first appointment - think I mentioned it a while back. It was fascinating! I told her all about my backache, the crick in my neck I keep getting and my heartburn. After examining me she came up with a number of conclusions which were really interesting. Firstly, my posture is slightly off, I stand tilted which means my neck is compensating by pulling in the other direction.
But the most interesting stuff is what she told me about my body. She said that during pregnancy, the hormones relax the muscles and ligaments (which we all know) and get the pelvis to pull apart for the baby to sit in. For me this isn't happening because my muscles are too strong. So my pelvis is remaining tightly 'wound' and bubs can't sit down there. As a result he's pushing up, but because my stomach muscles are equally strong they're not giving him any room either. So his only option is to push up against my diaphragm, which is giving me the heartburn.
All of this is giving me the backache (which is a normal part of it anyway but it's making it worse) and the pressure on the nerve endings is also contributing to my neck. So she manipulated my bones and joints and she said that it should start to loosen me up. She wants to see me in a week to check on my progress and then look at appointments every 3 or 4 weeks. She said it is good that I'm very active and it is obviously keeping me strong, but I need to maybe lower the intensity when spinning. She thinks as well that my bad sleeping should benefit from it as well because her theory is that my body is again not properly relaxing or switching off.
I found all of this so interesting! I also thought that might be why my bump started off quite high, I found it very odd when it first came in and thought maybe it's just bloat, but was positive it was bubs. My poor little man with no room in there!
Bless him!
I'll let you ladies know how it goes and whether it benefits me, but I'm pleased so far
So after my appointment with her I went straight off to see Take That at Wembley... oh my God it was incredible, such a good show! It was a nightmare getting out of there afterwards though, we only got home at about 2 in the morning. And needless to say I didn't sleep well!
Hope everyone is well
I can't imagine the pain you must be going through. I really hope you take all the time you need to heal. Fly high little Nathaniel.
