Week 32: Photo Journal/Weight

140 pounds and eating like a champ, honest. Reflux is awful. Just awful. Made worse by eating, drinking, or any strenuous activity.  

I have begun to feel swelling in my hands. They feel all tight and get pretty sweaty. They look like sausages. Petite little sausages, but sausages never the less. You might know that I'm pretty vain about my fingers. I think they look lovely, long and skinny, so it's a bit crushing to have sausage fingers, but that's the way it goes. I have stopped trying to put on my rings.

I also had a really severe stomach cramp this morning - does a Braxton-Hicks contraction feel anything like a stomach cramp? It definitely had a "wave-like" feeling to it, and after it passed, I felt completely fine and was able to keep eating. I don't know if my uterus got hard and moved forward as I've heard it described. But it hurt. Of course, it could have been a real stomach cramp brought on by the 4 slices of french toast covered in maple syrup and powdered sugar. :)

Lastly, I have had pretty unpleasant posterior pelvic pain after sitting. It's not sciatica. It's not in my butt. It is in my bones and joints, below the bony ridge of my pelvis. It feels like the two joints of my pelvis are not well connected, which is probably true, due to the higher levels of relaxin in my body.

Week32

 Socks for Cristin.