(Week 18) It’s all about the back… and beer

Lets start with Lara, she has been suffering a lot this last week. She’s obviously done something at some point in her life to upset her back, because he is certainly giving her some pain at the moment. She went to the doctors about it at the start of the week, because it’s just been getting worse and worse, and she just doesn’t want to deal with it, and wants someone to fix it. Sounds so easy doesn’t it?!

The doctor’s appointment unfortunately didn’t offer as much hope as she had wanted. She was basically told she has SPD (Symphisis Pubis Dysfunction (which sounds just lovely)), which basically means that all the bones in her pelvic area have spread apart which is what causes the pain, and going by what Lara has said to me, it is extremely painful and not much fun at all, especially in this heat. The doctor told her that to see a physio would mean going on a waiting list of about 9 months, which is kind of pointless now. The doctor also said that any exercise they would give you, would be stuff you can do with a DVD anyway, so that she is better of getting a Pilate’s Pregnancy DVD (yes, they do exist). The doctor also suggested that she see an Osteopath, we’re really hoping my medical insurance will cover it.

he best advice regarding Lara’s back has come from her best friend Amy though, who has just recently been through the whole pregnancy thing. She recommends the beer can massage, which pretty much means I have to roll a chilled beer can up and down Lara’s back. Everyone wins in this situation because Lara gets her massage and I get a can of beer. This has genuinely been working as well, so thanks for the tip Amy.

In other news Lara’s mood swings are back, and they are REALLY back! I won’t go in to it too much, as I don’t want to upset, anger or make Lara laugh too much.

Lara also felt more fluttering on Friday, I think she was getting worried as she hadn’t felt any since it first happened, but Baby gave her a little wave to let her know he/she is doing fine.

I’ve been trying to talk to the baby as much as I can through the bump this last week, as it can now hear things and will remember the voices that it here’s a lot of. I think singing may be on the cards for the baby next week, the lucky thing!

Sorry it’s short this week, but we’re off to a BBQ soon and I have to get ready. I also have to go and buy more beer cans, for Lara of course.

P.S. The bump is getting big! I’ll post some pictures next week.

(Week 16) The good, the bad and the fluttering

So last week was a pretty quiet one, this week was not. I guess baby was just holding back for a week.

This weeks has seen Lara have her first ‘fluttering’ sensation in her stomach. Which means the baby is moving about in there, and is now big enough for Lara to feel it. If baby takes after his/her Dad, and can’t keep still for much more than 10 minutes at a time, then Lara is in for plenty of fluttering.

When Lara sent me the message telling me about the fluttering, I got a bit of fluttering in my stomach too. The kind you get when you’re really excited. It’s just the thought of our little guy/gal in Lara’s stomach, making a little home for him/herself and getting all comfortable, makes me really excited.

It’s so amazing that Lara is carrying another little human in her own body. Impressive.

Lara also suffered a bit of a low point of pregnancy last week too. Unfortunately when we get the train to work in the morning, it is usually packed and only standing room available, and not much of it. So we were both standing up on Tuesday morning and it was pretty warm on the train. After about 15-20 mins of standing Lara didn’t feel too good. She started to feel very faint and eventually had to kneel down and sit on the floor, it was a pretty scary moment and horrible to see my Lara feeling like this. I tried my best to reassure her, but she was not feeling good at all. Eventually, after about 5 minutes someone decided to offer Lara her seat, something that people should of done straight away! Nobody tried to help! In fact the guy right next to us, instanty put his head down and pretended to be asleep. If I wasn’t so worried about Lara, I would of personally picked him up off the seat myself.

It wasn’t pleasant, but she seems fine now. I think she just needs to take it a bit easier. She knows this though, and is doing a really good job of looking after herself and our litle one.

Also in more baby news, Laras best friend Amy and her Husband Matt had their first child last week. A little boy called Levi, and from the pictures I’ve seen, he is extremely cute (good work guys). So congratulations to them! Tell Levi his friend will be here soon.