Changes

No baby yet.

But I have a feeling it will be sometime soon. I've been experiencing some changes recently that I wanted to share with you. Now, let me preface this post by saying that I completely overanalyze everything when it comes to this pregnancy. So these changes I'm going to tell you about can either be little clues that labor will start within the next few days OR they could mean absolutely nothing!

SO....normally, when I was working, I would experience Braxton-Hicks throughout the day. BUT when I was at home and resting, I wouldn't have them at all. Ever since Saturday, I've been having them like crazy...and I've been doing nothing but resting!

This morning (around 2-3am) I woke up and had a sharp pain shoot from the bottom of my belly to the top of my belly on the right side. The pain was so strong, I couldn't get up and had to just lay there and breathe through the pain until it subsided about 20 seconds later. I was too freaked out and concentrating on breathing to touch my belly to see if it was contracting or not. But I really thought "This is it!!" Then today, I've had two more occurances of this strange sharp pain and both times, it's caught me so off guard that I just concentrated on breathing through it and haven't felt to see if I'm contracting or not.

I also have been peeing like CRAZY. Ask my husband! Last week, I would get up 2-3 times a night to pee, but lately I've been having to get up 5-7 times a night! And allllll throughout the day. And I'm not really drinking any more than I used to so I'm hoping this means that Noah has finally decided to drop!

And finally, all afternoon today I have been having some painful contractions. These are different than any of the other contractions I've had before. These have a sharper pain rather than a dull tugging that I'm used to having. BUT I'm still not convinced they are real contractions. My stomach has been a little out of whack (because I have been eating a lot of spicy food lately) so I think I may be having gas/IBS issues that would normally hurt anyway and it's just making me contract as well.

So there you go. I really feel like it's going to be soon. April originally guessed February 4th for Noah's birthday.....that's also the day I go to the doctor! So we'll see!