It’s been a difficult week.
To say I’ve been struggling a lot this week is an understatement . My blood pressure is so low and my heart rate keeps spiking. It makes me feel so sick and fuzzy. My head feels weird I have headaches . I feel dizzy. I feel nauseated. If I move to fast , get up or sit down , lie down or roll over I get dizzy and black spots and super nauseated. I’m so over this. It makes me feel sick all day and hard to breathe. I’ll be walking or doing something and all of a sudden I’ll feel sick and woozy and find it hard to catch my breath and I’ll look at my watch and my heart rate will be high. Just walking around Walmart on friday it was 135. My blood pressure at last check was 90/ 60. Yesterday it was jumping from my resting heart rate of 69-72 to 150!
It is not a good feeling. It leaves me feeling weak and tired and I need to lay down and do some deep breathing to get it to come down. It was hard to be motivated this week to get much done so I feel like I am scrambling now.
Cole was sick for 5 days. and it rained a lot this week so that didn’t help with the motivation and fatigue.
On a good note, It was my birthday on Wednesday. I even got to have Chinese food for my birthday so that was pretty special. I had bought myself a cupcake but cole forgot it in the truck and it melted. Cole, Madelyn and I went to the mall on my birthday and he bought me a new phone, and we had some Davids ice tea, then I went for a massage and ran some errands. Came home for a quick lunch and to pick up the day care kids. They all got picked up early so we could go for dinner. Cole was sick but we still managed to go. We went to Oriental Gardens down town and it had Chinese food, Japanese food and sushi! I had mushroom chow mein. That very well be a once in a life time opportunity for me to say I had Chinese food in a real Chinese food restaurant on my birthday! They even brought me out some pound cake with raspberry puree and ice cream. However since I already had chow mein I did not want to push my luck so we split it between the 3 of us. After dinner we walked around down town and visited the library. We came home and picked up our dog and went for family walk to the river. It was low key but very nice.
My daycare is officially closed. The last kids left Thursday at 430 pm . I’m now on leave till January. It was bittersweet. I will miss our daycare family. We had a great crew. To say there was lots of tears and hugs is an understatement.
This baby is really growing! She feels so much longer and heavier to me than i remember Madelyn ever being. I can feel her everywhere. She feels long cause I can feel her legs up near my chest but her head and shoulders low ! Her back sits around my belly button. I can feel her push against me and push her back into my belly . My whole belly will move and stick out to that side when she does that and I feel her hard little bum with my hand. She is moving a lot and we can watch her from the outside to. Sometimes its pretty uncomfortable.
she feels like shes taking up a lot of space in there and she certainly is using up all my protein way faster! She is making good use of all my extra protein. The ultrasound tech said she was already over 4 lbs and since babies grow half a pound a week in the last 8 weeks she very well may be 8 lbs or over. Madelyn was 6 so that is kinda terrifying since Im aiming to try an un- medicated home birth.
My latest phe level was again 1.4 mg/dl so I have just been bumped up to 1800 mg phe ( 36 grams protein!!!) The highest I got with Madelyn was 2000 mg ( 40 grams protein) and I still have 7 weeks to go! Who knows what I will get to this time. Im finding food to be getting really challenging with being able to tolerate so much more protein and trying not to add to many new foods. All the foods im currently eating i keep increasing portions to reach protein but its becoming a lot of food and im having trouble eating it all . I feel so full and need to find some new meal ideas. Specialy since my calorie intake has been climbing with the bigger portions.
A part of me has the mentality that “last baby, last time to try new things” I have even made a list.
Things I want to try and eat with my new #PHE tolerance before this baby is born include:
A Cinnamon bun
A Oreo blizzard from Dairy Queen
A regular orange Julius smoothie
A regular bread sandwich
An ice cream Sunday
Berry Crepes
A Strudel
Muffins
Brown bread.
oatmeal cookies
English muffins
A wrap of some sort.
Then a few things I normally eat when not tracking my diet but would normally harm me . So since they wont i’m dying to get out for some sushi. Just my regular vegetable, or yam and avocado rolls and some veggie tempura.
Some different soups.
The higher phe Dayia cheese on a regular”white” bread grilled cheese sandwich.
Here is what baby center.ca has to say about week 33 !
Your baby now weighs about 4.2 pounds / 2 kilograms and measures approximately 17 inches/ 44 centimetres from head to toe. Your baby should already be getting ready for delivery by turning upside-down — her head should be pointing down.
Your doctor or midwife will be paying careful attention to your baby’s position in the coming weeks — some babies do decide toturn back round again.
Your baby’s skull is still quite pliable and not completely joined, in part so she can ease out of the relatively narrow birth canal. But the bones in the rest of her body are hardening. Your baby’s skin is also gradually becoming less red and wrinkled.
If you’re a first-time mother, your child’s head may move into the pelvis this week and press firmly against your cervix. (This happens for about half of all first-time mothers.) If you’re a second-time mum, you can expect this to happen a week before labour — and for some this won’t happen until the start of labour. Hoping to manage your labour naturally? Here’s all you need to know about natural pain relief.
You may notice that your feet and ankles are quite swollen by the end of the day. Water retention, also known as oedema, is often worse in warm weather and late in the day. Surprisingly, keeping hydrated helps reduce water retention. Your body — particularly your kidneys — and your baby need plenty of fluids, so drink up. If you suddenly feel swollen or puffy in your hands or face, however, call your doctor — it may be a sign of pre-eclampsia.
Today cole is working on moving all his office stuff down to the basement. I am washing all my home birth list stuff and putting it together in a rubber maid bin so it can be easily accessible. Will also be packing a hospital bag just in case and the diaper bag. I still need to sort through all the baby clothes and wash her bedding and blankets to. One thing at a time!
Check back next week for the next update. Thanks for following me on this journey.
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