Hi! I'm feeling great! I think my doctor got it wrong. I'd bet everything I was dehydrated but by the time I finally relented and went to L&D, I had drank 70oz, in an effort to not have to go in, and so I had all signs of being perfectly hydrated. I hope she was wrong. What she was describing sounded really bad.
I walked N down to the Y to his swim lesson at 9am. It's only .2 miles but it's down a pretty steep hill and his stroller was wet so I took his wagon which, of course, runs behind me so the whole walk to the Y, I was fighting to keep it behind me and by the time I got to the bottom of the hill, I was having pretty intense contractions. When I to got to the Y I was half unaware of what was going on and ended up blacking out in the locker room. On my hands and knees, my white ass wearing only a bathing suit, in the shower - trying to cool down. With a screaming little boy standing in front of me. Gah - embarrassing. It happened with N, but I had gone swimming and swam laps and did somersaults, etc. so walking down a hill seemed like an extreme reaction.
So I hydrated and ate and slept but it happened again, at 5pm in a store which made K insist I had to go in. I figured I would just get an IV (we had tickets to the Red Sox and I felt awful we were going to have to cancel) and be fine but then
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Silver lining - I got to go to Hensmum's little boys birthday party since I couldn't walk around Boston!
. She thinks the baby is large and since I'm so short, it's pushing on something like an artery and causing my blood pressure to drop suddenly. She said that some (very few and all short, that she's seen) pregnant women have it as a constant problem and there's nothing you can do. The baby moving off isn't really a hope since...well I don't know why... But she said usually it gets worse and not to work (which I am) and if I feel it coming on, put Noah down and get to the floor. Eventually I'd be on bed rest and no driving.