Moving

So last week D and I are laying in bed and Cashew is being extra compliant. Moving all over the place and actually feeling like he is doing 2 somersaults that actually hurt quite a bit. But, seeing as Pnut never let her dad feel her move too much in utero it was nice for D to feel. Over the next few days I notice that Cashew's patterns change. Mornings and evenings used to be heavy moving times for him. That had changed to where I was only feeling slight shifts or jabs every once in a while. My doctor had been pushing me for kick counts and honestly who has time to lay down for 1-2 hours to do it, but I did try.

Which brings us to yesterday's doctor's appt. I arrive five minutes early, my appt is at 9:50. I do not get put into a room until 10:35 and the doctor doesn't come in until 11:15. I was seriously pissed. I can't even be nice on the blog and say annoyed. I was definitely pissed. So he begins his normal questions and I say everything seems fine. He then asks about kick counts and I'm honest. He is moving, just not as strongly as before. I figure, the kid is running out of room so this should be fine. My doctor has that look on his face like, oh no this is terrible. I had also threw in my jab that in the hour and a half I had been at the office the baby had moved/kicked at least 8 times that I felt. I was SO pissed. So then he asks me if I have any plans for the rest of the day. Uh, yes. I have to work because it is the one time in the summer that I work, and it is the most important day of the contracted work that I do.

Doctor of course doesn't care and really wants me to go for a non-stress test. I am just deeply annoyed with the whole situation, beginning to freak myself out, etc. What makes me even more aggravated is that the baby's heartrate is 135, Dr. did a brief ultrasound and could see baby moving, head down, and heartbeat. Plus I had said that the baby moved at least 8 times in 1 1/2 hours. Grr. Ok fine, he managed to get me into test right away so I have to walk across Kaiser campus from doctor office to hospital. Call D while I'm walking to update him, text friends I'm working with to let them know what is going on. Get to testing, lay down and do what you probably shouldn't do during a non-stress test: start to ball!

Nurses checked on me and had to calm me down, they told me baby was moving fine and just to relax, but when you are ticked off, upset and then trying to calm yourself down, doesn't always work. Finally relaxed.

Now here is my questions about movement. According to the monitors the baby was moving a lot. But in my 20 minutes of monitoring I really only felt 4 movements. How then are kick counts effective if you can't feel what they count as movement!? GRR.

So, Cashew is fine. I had a craptastic morning, made it to work only about 5-10 minutes late and was completely disjointed from the whole class. Which made me irritated, because I wanted to be all there, and wasn't.

Right now, it is almost 6am. I have been awake since 5 when D left for work because my hips are just in agony. Yesterday and today have been the worst, and this morning I decided it wasn't even worth trying to find a position that works because when you are pregnant there are really only two positions you can lay in in bed, left side and right side. I have the pillow between my legs, I have the pillow that is in front of me supporting Cashew and me. Hips are still on fire constantly. 24 days can't fly fast enough.

I will still maintain that I enjoy pregnancy. I will never complain about the pregnancy part. I will however complain this time about the joint pain because it really hurts.

Let's all hope that my next appt in two weeks is a cakewalk, because I really need it to be :)