I absolutely love my chiropractor and get my babies adjusted too. My daughter had horrible colic and wouldn't eat, and after 1 treatment was almost 100% better. 2 more and she was a happy, hungry, nursing baby and sleeping well. Finding the right chiropractor is important, but I have faith in mine and he treats his own kids as well.

Just need to vent a little...

I'm 37 weeks as of today, and these last few days have been really trying. I've had a horrible time sleeping. Can't seem to sleep more than a few hours at a time and only at the strangest hours. Midwife thinks I have SPD so my pelvis has been in horrible pain for about a week now, and it's only getting worse. The pain radiates all around my lower spine and into my tailbone. I pee all the time. I poop all the time, and it hurts when I have to "go" anymore, because I get horrible bowel cramps. I can't even walk after 3pm from the discomfort and instability in my hips. I seem to do better in the morning with that. To top it all off, I just got sick with a cold and can't take any decongestants.

I feel like all this is wearing on my willpower and nerves a lot. I'm trying to distract myself with work and other things and trying to remember that it's only temporary, but it's getting really stressful and exhausting mentally and physically.

My midwife told me to get a maternity belt, so that should be here on Tuesday, but I'm just really getting tired of all this.

I could use some encouragement and maybe some voices of reason...

I get back and hip pain the last few weeks as well. Mine is worse when standing, but I get great relief sitting on one of those exercise balls that you inflate. I pretty much live on mine instead of a chair or the couch for the last 2-3 weeks and even sit on it during labor if one is available. The counter pressure on my pelvis really seems to help. Check it out if you don't already have one.

LOL. Well you are not alone. i was folding clothes yesterday and after shirt # 5, my arms were killing me. lol.

Lovely pic Pregosaurusrex! Are congratulations in order?!

OMG congrats! I didn't even notice!!!!

I just noticed as well! Congrats! Hope you and baby are doing well!

Am I the only one who is super disappointed to realize that the 1st trimester is, in fact, NOT the hardest. I feel so much more tired this trimester (I guess it's the extra 40 lbs I'm toting around) and my blood pressure is all over the place.

When my first and second trimester were relatively easy (aside from a few complications) I thought "oh this pregnancy thing isn't too bad" I still don't think it's THAT bad (my sis has REALLY hard pregnancies) but I kinda was hoping to be super pregnant lady and that just isn't happening. I guess I need to stop comparing myself to other people. I still feel great most days but I certainly need a lot more sleep than before and the whole standing for hours on end cooking or cleaning, yeah that's a no go.....sigh* sorry, guess I just needed to complain a little

I think third trimester is hard (not just for the obvious physical reason) because it will give us the motivation to get ourselves through laboring and delivery. Like I've been telling myself this whole pregnancy that I'm perfectly content to go 2 weeks overdue if need be. Now that I'm at 32 weeks, I'm realizing/remembering that I'm NOT going to be perfectly content to wait longer than need be. lol. However, I'm still going to wait, content or not.

Lovely pic Pregosaurusrex! Are congratulations in order?!

Glad you pointed it out......we are not friends off the forum, so hadn't seen it. Congratulations pregosaurusrex! Impatiently waiting to change my picture too!

39 weeks today. Off to a massage and a doctor appointment, and then hopefully doing a maternity photo shoot with a friend of mine who is building her portfolio. Hoping the doctor has good news that things are close!

Sounds like a great day! I was looking at the website of the midwife I'm thinking of switching too and was really excited to see that one of the services they offer is massage heck yes!

39 weeks today. Off to a massage and a doctor appointment, and then hopefully doing a maternity photo shoot with a friend of mine who is building her portfolio. Hoping the doctor has good news that things are close!

Sounds like a great day! I was looking at the website of the midwife I'm thinking of switching too and was really excited to see that one of the services they offer is massage heck yes!

It was a great day and the doctor news was good too! Already at 2-3cm dilated, baby is down and fully engaged and he expects me to go in the next 4-5 days :-) Had a great photo shoot with my friend and looking forward to seeing pictures soon!

So I met with the midwife and I'm not switching. Sound like the OB in her practice is super fond on interventions and I'm more likely to get him than her. Another weird thing about the visit, when I looked around I thought "wow, this office is really cool." After leaving I realized that it is a very cool office....if it were a tattoo parlor! Most OBs have real beautiful pictures of pregnant women, sometimes they even have cool photos of pregnant women with tattoos, this doctor? Forget the pregnant women! Just give me paintings of naked women with tattoos. It was so odd! The office I was in had some real pretty maternity photos but the main office was all tatted up chicks with big boobs...creepy!

Maybe the office moonlights as a tattoo parlor! Or they could be doing experiments where they give women tattoos during labor to distract from the pain. Although I couldn't imagine that those tattoos would turn out very well....

So I met with the midwife and I'm not switching. Sound like the OB in her practice is super fond on interventions and I'm more likely to get him than her. Another weird thing about the visit, when I looked around I thought "wow, this office is really cool." After leaving I realized that it is a very cool office....if it were a tattoo parlor! Most OBs have real beautiful pictures of pregnant women, sometimes they even have cool photos of pregnant women with tattoos, this doctor? Forget the pregnant women! Just give me paintings of naked women with tattoos. It was so odd! The office I was in had some real pretty maternity photos but the main office was all tatted up chicks with big boobs...creepy!

Maybe the office moonlights as a tattoo parlor! Or they could be doing experiments where they give women tattoos during labor to distract from the pain. Although I couldn't imagine that those tattoos would turn out very well....

You know what, that would be amazing! If I could get tatted while in labor I so would! I don't even care if there's ink on the needles, when I'm in pain tattoos seriously do help! LOL

I'm SO overdue for another tattoo!

Hi ladies!

I just delivered my little man on Monday, and wanted to take a moment to share my birth story as the birth stories of the ladies who came before me were so informative and helpful!

12:30am on Sunday morning my water broke suddenly while I was walking around my house. I had no contractions, and thought I had just peed myself until I went into the bathroom and more and more fluid started coming out. Contractions started at about 1:45am Sunday and were about 15-20 mins apart. They got to about 5 mins apart by 6am, so I went to the maternity center. They kept coming at about 5-7 minutes apart for several hours. They started coming in clusters 3-4 on top of each other separated by 10 minutes around 2pm and kept doing that through 5pm-ish. I labored in a jacuzzi tub, which helped ease the pain of the cluster contractions, but then my labor completely stopped. By 6pm, we decided to go to the hospital. By the time I got there, my contractions were going again, but I had made no progress in dilation in many hours. By then, I was pretty exhausted, and was only 4 cm dilated. Since my water had been broken so long, the risk to the baby was going up the longer I labored, so a joint decision was made to do a c-section. I had to wait until about 6am the next morning for the c-section since I had eaten too close to coming to the hospital for the surgery to be done immediately. Had contractions about every 10 minutes up until then.

Benjamin Ryan was born at 5:57am and weighed exactly 7.0 lbs and was 19 inches long. He's beautiful, and while I hated having to have the c-section, I'm so thankful he is healthy and safe. He had to spend 3 day in NICU getting antibiotics since my water was broken and labor lasted so long. We are home safe and sound now and recovering nicely.

Thank you to everyone here for all your help and encouragement throughout my pregnancy! This group is so great!

He is so freakin cute! And looks a lot like his mommy! It's interesting that your water broke first because I was just working on the part of my birth plan that addresses that scenario. I'm so glad to hear everything worked out and he came into the world safely! Thanks for sharing your story lady!

Thank you! I'm 100% in love with him! He's been such a joy for us!

My birth plan was to deliver without drugs. I hung on for 30 hours, but having my water break before contractions started really threw a wrench into the plans as I only had about 24 hours after that to deliver without antibiotics or other medicines. I did feel like a huge failure after we decided to do the c-section. I think that came from me being so dead-set on delivering naturally and feeling confident that I could no matter what. Sometimes, our bodies just don't abide by those plans. Just try to realize that sometimes, things will be out of your control. Just do what you can to stay healthy for you and your baby, because no matter what happens, it'll be worth it in the end!

Wow Veloci Mama! I know how tired I was after labouring for 16 hours with my first, I can't imagine how tired you must have been after 30 hours. Don't be too hard on yourself, it sounds like the c section was the best option, and at least you got to have be there, a lot of ladies could expect an emergency c section after labouring that long. He does look lovely, enjoy him and enjoy being a mum!

He is adorable. Congratulations.