Feeling good

I feel a lot better since my last post and that is due in no small part to your comments. Thank you! I even had family members quoting different comments to me, trying to make me feel better. So I really appreciate those of you who shared your low progesterone stories.

Today I was a little nervous for a different reason. Yesterday I started to have some pain on my right side by my hip bone, but after googling "round ligament pain" (and a little reassurance from my sister, who is due in just a few weeks, I might add), I realized that's what it was. After all, I am 18 weeks today and I'm sure things are really stretching and moving in there!

Speaking of movement, I definitely feel some! I wouldn't call it flutters, but rather pops and quick sensations here and there. Sometimes it happens a lot over a span of 30 minutes to an hour, and other times I don't feel it for a few hours. It's still hard to wrap my mind around the fact that it's a baby doing it!

My appointment with the endocrinologist the other day went really well. She guessed my symptoms right away (rapid heart beat and anxiety at night) and said it was due to my medication. So she's altered the dose and said I should feel better in about a week. I love finding out things like that can be fixed! I didn't expect that at all, or even think it had anything to do with my thyroid! Now I'm just hoping it works.

Clara did great too! Well, actually she was a bit fussy (of course, since I needed her not to be), but the office staff was amazing, which was so great to see because I've taken her with me to some appointments where I've gotten the feeling that the staff is less than amused that she's there. Everyone loved her and she even went with one of the women who worked there while I met with the doctor (apparently they watch babies for moms all the time). The woman had her right on her lap while she answered phones! At one point, I passed her and Clara in the hall and Clara looked right at me and didn't even care! And in case you're thinking maybe she was nervous and emotionless, oh no, a nurse walked up and talked baby talk to her and she lit right up with a huge smile. There's no seperation anxiety with that child!

I'm excited to be heading out of town tomorrow with the GIMH family! Our husbands planned a little weekend getaway (which GIMH and I find amusing) and it should be a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll find a way to post pictures of it next week. I've actually been posting from my iPhone lately (which isn't as hard as I thought it would be, once you get the hang of it. Although the finger I type with may beg to differ), but I still can't really post pictures or video.

And I'm really going to have to find an internet connection to post video soon because I have some great ones of Clara (who turned seven months yesterday, by the way!). Lately she has taken up back scooting as well as laughing, and I find both hysterical! Seriously, why didn't anyone tell me how absolutely amazing it is when your baby belly laughs? It's my current favorite thing in the world. It brings me indescribable joy.

Okay, time for bed and to give my typing finger a rest. Have a great holiday weekend!