lots to report this week.
first off, we had our twenty-eight week check-up this week along with an ultrasound. they wanted to see how baby boy is growing since he was a little on the small side {19th %-tile} when we had the gender scan at eighteen weeks. good news: he's in the 50th %-tile now! he was moving around & kicking & also good news? still a boy. we never had an ultrasound this late in the game with parker so it was interesting to see how much bigger he is now & how cramped it is in there for him. he's just gonna get more & more smooshed as the weeks go on though!
secondly, i described all my pelvic/back pain issues to the doctor & told her i'd self-diagnosed myself with symphysis pubis dysfunction. she agreed! i has it. unfortunately, the only good this does is give all the pain i feel a name. the only thing you can really do is wear a maternity pelvic support belt & wait for your baby to be born... so that sucks.
basically what happens is your ligaments relax too much & your pelvis separates way too much causing lots of instability in your hips, back & pelvis. this causes horrible pain when rolling in bed, getting up from sitting down, trying to stand on one leg & getting dressed. all things i experience. and apparently 1 in 4 pregnant girls get it too. do you have it? misery loves company!
the good news is that with parker it went away pretty much as soon as he was born when my body quit producing relaxin & the ligaments tightened back up. so that means only t minus twelve weeks of living with SPD!
lastly, the other night i stumbled upon a post i wrote when i was twenty-eight weeks pregnant with parker. it was all about how afraid i was to change & lose my identity once i became a mom. i was worried about the change from career-woman to mommy-woman & if i would hate who i'd become. this week i will be writing a follow up to this post as an answer to myself about how i've changed... but basically? i would change NOTHING about how i've changed.
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