Today was Thanksgiving and I am 19 weeks along. I started feeling you kick two nights ago from the outside. You are already so very strong. Your brother loves to give you hugs and talk about all the things he wants to teach you as you get bigger and older. We are all very excited to meet you and will get to see you again on Dec 7th, so that makes me happy. I’m still getting winded really easily which makes my relatively useless for the most part. I also can’t stand for very long which also doesn’t help. Unfortunately tonight, (I’m assuming because of all the Thanksgiving carbs and fatty foods) I learned that I am not out of the woods this pregnancy regarding the thoracic endometriosis. Tonight was the worst in a long time and unfortunately I can’t even take anything for the pain with you inside me. I had to wake up daddy to put stuff on my back and ribs and have been laying on a heating pad for hours. I tried taking Tylenol, which doesn’t ever do anything for this but figured I’d try anyway, and instead the pain got so bad, I immediately threw them up. I’m still in a lot of pain right now at 3:22am but at at least not crying uncontrollably still. Really praying this goes away soon so that I can sleep but if it’s anything like the other times, I’ve got another three hours to go. I contemplated making daddy take me to the hospital but that would require waking up Ms. Nancy and freaking out all of the kids, especially for them to maybe not be able to do a trying either and then charge me a bunch on top of it for an ER visit. :( just know that I love you kid and that once you’re here, it’ll all be worth it.
Edit: make that twice I threw up :( it’s now 5:11am and am finally starting to feel a little bit better. I made some echinacea and raspberry leaf tea to see if that’ll help any too, and to try and rehydrate me a little bit. Needless to say, I’ll need to do some serious sleeping in tomorrow, but I’m praying everything will feel normal and that maybe we can get the outside Christmas lights out up.
