Cramping
Yeah, the cramps are back. Supposedly from all that my doctors have said, this is fairly normal...unless it feels like labor cramps. For someone who never got to experience labor or labor cramps, that's a tough one to figure out. I know about the back pain, the "tightness" over my abdomen, etc., so I'm just thinking this is normal cramping. Whatever that means.
I joined some friends for dinner on Monday night at a Japanese place (and no I didn't have sashimi!) just about 10 minutes from home. As always, we spent the first hour or so just talking before we even placed our dinner order. Nice to just sit and have a civilized conversation with another adult without wiping faces, fixing food, or picking up food off the floor.
I made it through our meal, but all of a sudden started to sweat and have some cramping. I thought it would pass, but it just became more persistent. I excused myself from dinner, left my portion of the bill, and headed home (I was happy to hear that my friends did stay and talk for a while longer). I was drenched by the time I got home, and after visiting the bathroom, headed to the couch in my comfy pjs to lay down. The cramps continued all night long, but they were high up under my chest, not down where the baby is. I woke the next morning not crampy, but sore (like I had done about 8,000 sit ups). Maybe stuff is moving around in there. However, by the afternoon, the cramps were back with a vengeance...as they were after my nap yesterday afternoon. Maybe it's an end of the day thing.
I've been drinking quite a bit, but I'm also fighting yet another cold. I've been congested the past few days, and my son has been a little runny and coughing. Think we're clearing through the worst of it, but last night nearly took everything out of me. My son (who I think is working on his 2 year molars) fought us to go to sleep last night. Instead of the typical 8:15-8:30 bedtime, he probably didn't fall asleep until well after 9, only to be up crying around 10:30. When I went up to comfort him, I realized it might be the teething as his hands were jammed into his mouth and the drool was very evident, so we brought him downstairs to calm him down for a few minutes and get some Motrin in his system. I was ready for bed by that time, so at 11pm we all headed upstairs and tried to tuck the little guy into his crib. No luck. He joined us in bed for about 30 minutes until he had calmed down and seemed sleepy. My husband moved him into his crib, where he immediately began to cry, then scream, then wail. Spent the next few hours shuttling back and forth between my bed and rocking/singing/calming my son to sleep in his room. Each time I'd lay him back in his crib nearly asleep, he'd wake and start the screaming process all over. He finally cried himself to sleep just before 2 and then coughed for the next 20 minutes. I was shocked when he was up before 7 this morning...so here's to hoping for an early and long nap this afternoon! Functioning on under 5 hours isn't something I'm up for just yet.