Heartburn!

Well, here I am, at 3am with a bucket of ice cream in front of me. Praying that this might work. Losing sleep again because of heartburn. I've gotten pretty used to the heartburn, but sometimes its just worse than others. Like tonight. I've taken more than my day's worth of Tums just this evening. When that doesn't work, usually a glass of milk or some ice cream will. I've already tried the milk. So now I'm trying the ice cream. It's really my last resort. If this doesn't work, I don't know what I'll do.

I sleep all propped up, which has helped. But I think I made my mistake by eating when I got home from work tonight. I had a small dinner earlier tonight, so by the time I got home from work, I was pretty hungry again. I know better than to eat late. But I did it anyway. So now I'm paying for it. I should have just went to bed hungry.

My other discomforts are starting to add up now too. I guess I had to start being uncomfortable at some point, I've been so lucky so far. My back hurts pretty much all the time. Sometimes its mid-back, sometimes lower back, now that he's dropped. The most interesting pain of all is the cervical pain. I read that it is caused by his head hitting the cervix but the cervix not giving way. Sometimes I can actually feel him turn his head...and WHOA, that is a weird feeling. At first I described it as a tickle and a little hurt at the same time. Now it just hurts, its definately gotten more forceful.

I also get some cramps from time to time. Mostly when I'm walking around, and it is in my butt (left cheek usually) and runs down my thigh. I read that this is because he's sitting on the sciatic nerve...which can cause all manner of strange cramps.

Then I alternate between bursts of energy (nesting probably) and being absolutely wiped out.

I think yesterday I had some Braxton Hicks contractions. I keep wondering if I am going to be completely oblivious of early labor. Especially if its back labor, since my back hurts all the time anyway. Everything I read says it feels like menstrual cramps. But I never got cramps, so I don't know what that feels like! You'd think it would be common sense, and of course when they are getting stronger I will recognize it, but the early ones...who knows? I could miss those all together, I fear.

I'm starting to get kinda anxious about labor. Both in the sense that I'm nervous about it and that I'm ready to be done. I love being pregnant actually, don't get me wrong. It's been amazing. And its not just because I'm starting to be uncomfortable. I'm just ready to hold him, to see what he's like, to play with him...all of that.

I'm sure that time will come soon enough...let's just hope it's not another 3 weeks...