Today marked my 23th week. The past week I have been up and down problem with heartburn. At night, it's hard to sleep even if trying to elevate my upper body to clear some passage. The pressure on my stomach was just hard to deal with but I still sleep through it no matter what. Sleep has not been good. Either I could get 7 hours of sleep or less. I should be sleeping more than that and taking naps too. But I worked full time so there's no way for me to get more of it. Weekends I gained more hours of sleep and I always feel rejuvenate when the weekend comes because I have longer hours of sleep.
Contraction has been the center of my attention for the week. I monitor it when it happen at work. I don't get it if I am at home relax and just do minimal things. At work is different. I give so much time dealing with people on the phone and I don't feel relax. It tightens my stomach and it's a little pain. There's no discharge or whatsoever. The relief I could get is changing my seating position and breathing in and out to help eases the contraction.
Eating food is enjoyable this week. I ate too much actually. Well, I am eating good. Whatever makes me happy I will just eat. But I don't just eat excessively because I know my limits. I have been eating more sweets than I normally do too. It's going to be bad I know but it's not always everyday. At times I can't help it. The reason why because the sour taste in my mouth comes back again. Sweets does help temporarily.
Baby is been punching, kicking and making responsive bubbles. His a delight. I am so glad his so active and make me feel his there all the time. I love my baby boy so much.
This afternoon past 4pm I saw Dr. W for my monthly check up. My weight today is 135.3 wow and 110/64! That's a big jump. Considering all the eating I have been doing no wonder I gained 7 pounds for a month. I hope that helps my bambino to grow more. Dr. W had shown to me the projectile of the growth of the normal, constitutional and show a path of problematic fetal growth. I am a bit on the edge right now whether I am on a constitutional side or problematic growth. The problematic growth comes from the placenta. If the baby don't get so much nutrients it will boil down to the growth problem of the baby. But there's already a remedy to help it. There's nothing a mother can do. So the 2nd ultrasound is needed to see how his growth will come along. She doesn't seem to be so concern and believe that the baby is just small. But she doesn't want to see the baby will fall into the bad projectile so I will be monitored then.
We also talked about my contraction the past days. Yesterday I hit my 5th mark in an hour span. She told me it's okay as long as it's not more than 6. She wanted me to monitor it for me which I am already doing since last week. I told her about what my boss plans are in the office and she told me that if I will be in preterm labor, there's nothing that my boss can do but to take care of myself first. Disability will take it's place. For now, as long as there's no bleeding and the contraction will not be constant I will still work normal. I hate the fact I could still work long hours. I just hope nothing could go wrong while I am at work.
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