Two really cool things happened over the weekend. First of all, on Saturday, I was sitting on the couch, watching TV and all of a sudden someone's leg started making a break for it. It felt like Kaelynn thrust her whole leg out of my stomach. It was crazy! It's so hard to describe. I burst out laughing and tried to explain it to Corey & my mom. That was the first kick, kick that I have felt. It didn't hurt, but it felt so weird.
Speaking of kicking, she has been doing it a lot. It feels like .. you know when a fish skims the top of the water and a little bit of their fins come out? That's like the visual that comes up for me to describe kicking. She's using her legs and her arms to gently push, push. It happens on the right and left side of my belly button. It's a lot higher than where I used to feel the flutters. She was moving all over the place over the weekend. Every time she moved, I would tell Corey to come over to feel her, but of course she would stop. Then on Sunday, while she was very active, I motioned for him to come over and he got to feel her from the outside! It was so cool to be able to share that with him. We tricked her! LOL
Then, the bad parts... on Saturday night, I was woken up at 11:45 p.m. with this achy constant pain in my right side. It spread to my left side but was the most intense on my right side. It was right in my ribcage. I tried rolling over and finding a new position to ease the pain, but nothing helped. Finally, I got up to get a bag of ice (I found that ice helps indigestion, which feels like STABBING pain in my ribcage). The ice wasn't helping. I started to feel panicky. I was so hot and I couldn't breathe. Finally, I woke up Corey because I didn't know what else to do. He was worried, but I tried to explain why I didn't think it was Braxton Hicks contractions and something else. He helped SO MUCH! He helped me with my breathing, to distract me from the pain (I was feeling so helpless). Finally, after like 10+ minutes, the pain went away. It was really scary.
Late, we looked it up on the internet and it seems like the culprit of the pain is my growing uterus (which is now like 4 inches ABOVE my bellybutton) and it's pushing against my ribs and spreading them apart. Awesome. That is totally lame. And apparently, it's pretty common. Alas, there isn't much you can do for it. Stand with your arms above your head, change positions, or move around. But luckily, for the most part, the ice helps.
Of course, I am always nervous that it's going to happen again, especially at school! So, naturally, today, I started feeling the pains in my right side. It definitely didn't feel as intense as it did on Saturday, but at least I had that experience so now I am able to have a better idea of what to do. So I told Kaye that I had to go to the health room. Luckily, the nurse had some ice packs ready and I was able to pack on the ice and the pain went away. The nurse told me that I could keep the ice pack in my room for as long as I need it, so that's better because I will feel even less panicky about it.
It was just so unexpected! Yah, some other super fun things to look forward to during pregnancy. ;) The other things that they don't tell you. I mean, I really can't complain seeing how I've had a pretty smooth sailing up until now.
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