Week 24 Recap

This week was fairly uneventful, unless you count the contractions. And I have been counting! Or at the very least feeling.

Here's what makes me have contractions:

• bending over
• walking too fast
• walking up/down the stairs
• carrying anything remotely heavy
• yelling
• talking loud
• getting angry/irritated/concerned over my kids and their behavior
• lying too flat
• lying on my right side
• not drinking enough water
• having to pee
• worrying
• stressing
• wearing too tight clothes around my lower abdomen

So at my appointment on Thursday, I got prescriptions for Terbutaline, my favorite drug ever (not), which helps stop the contractions, but also makes my heart race, and makes me dizzy and breathless (more than I already am, BTW), and then for the med which tries to counteract those side effects. Awesome. Last time, when I had to go on these meds, I was also put on bedrest. But we did another ultrasound and saw that even though I'm having many contractions, they aren't doing anything to my cervix (yet). So I'm not sidelined yet.

I really, really, really don't want to end up on bedrest again! And the timing would be just awesome - the holidays. So I'm trying to "stay hydrated", "take it easy", "not stress", and all sorts of other impossible stuff. Oh, and trying not to worry about possibly getting the nasty flu and dying. That's all.

Measurements:
Waist: 33.75"
Belly Button: 38"
3" Down: 38.5"
Hips: 41.5"
Weight: 153.6