我♥ の孕日记 - 第35个星期

2012年3月15日（星期四）

Week 35:It's getting cramped in here!

 

最近小Qoo Jillyna 的房子应该是越来越窄了～哈哈哈。。。因为他只要稍微动一动，我的肚子就会大幅动，如果他大动一番的话，我的肚子就好像打战一样了～哈哈。。有时候感觉他磨到我的骨，还会觉得有点电电痒痒的感觉～而且最近上厕所的次数越来越频繁，感觉膀胱被挤得越来越小了，哈哈哈。。尤其是晚上睡觉的时候，不得不马上爬起来冲进厕所，可是偏偏又觉得自己好像翻过来的乌龟一样，哈哈。。不是说要起就能马上弹起来的，还要顾虑到会不会上到背后和腰，所以起身的姿势还要对，还要做一大堆在上课学到的姿势～哈哈。。

还有这几个星期一直被咳嗽伤风困扰着～～～ 吃了 Dr Tan 给的药虽然已经好了很多，可是还是会咳到我不能睡觉，甚至有点呼吸困难～我决定到楼下的诊所去看医生，因为再不看的话，我怎么可以在生孩子的时候做那些呼吸法呢？鼻孔都被堵着了～哈哈。。。

所以这整个星期都处于在昏昏迷迷，一直睡觉的状态～整个人几乎什么事情都不太想做，也没有什么精神做。希望我的咳嗽能够快点康复起来吧！

Congratulations! You’re now carrying over 5 pounds of baby-goodness - not counting their amniotic fluid, the umbilical cord, or the placenta itself.

Developmentally, your wee womb-tenant has the fat-factory running at full tilt while their digestive system puts the finishing touches on critical organs in preparation for their first meal (remember - before birth, all of their nutrition was blood via the umbilical cord).

With their first meal in mind, it's time to look forward to one of the most important things you'll do for your infant - namely, keeping them alive with nothing more than your breasts.

If you're still unsure whether you want to breastfeed, just check out our "Ten Reasons to Breastfeed" in Week 28.

And how's mom doing?

Okay superwoman, it's time to talk about labor and how you plan to cope.basically, your muscles are going to be like, "YO - THIS IS HARD!" when they're talking to your nerves, who'll be delivering these messages to your brain afterward, which you will then experience as pain

Get this into your head right now -- LABOR PAIN IS GOOD PAIN -- it's good for you and it's good for your baby.

Yes, contractions hurt, but unlike the pain of injury, it hurts because your muscles are being used in a way they've never been used before (or only rarely).

If you've been living under a rock: contractions are literally the slow process of squeezing your baby - via uterine muscular waves of motion, down your uterus into the birth canal.

So - basically, your muscles are going to be like, "YO - THIS IS HARD!" when they're talking to your nerves, who'll be delivering these messages to your brain afterward, which you will then experience as pain.

The important part of this process isyour mental and emotional acceptance of this pain as good, rather than something upsetting that must be avoided.

LABOR PAIN IS GOOD PAIN because your body is working really hard to do something that's incredibly important.

As Captain Obvious would say, "That's why they call it labor."

It might not feel good, but let's be realistic here: how many times will your uterus do this job? All Duggar jokes aside, it's obviously a unique situation for your body.

Labor gets a bad rap because of the pain of contractions, but if you look at the big picture - beyond the pain, you'd see that your labor is an act of epic earth-shattering proportions.

Come on! It's the act of giving life, after all!

Even if you are a pain-pansy, you need to come to terms with two things: 1) labor will hurt and that's okay and 2) the more you accept the pain as good, the less it will hurt.

Regardless of whether you get an epidural and in spite of their popularity, every one of us would do well to remember that pain is a normal and important part of life.

Your brain's pain system usually warns you when something is wrong or broken, but this time - if you listen to your body and take the time to understand the epic nature of what's happening inside of you, you might begin to understand that a change of such amazing proportions is taking place inside of you that your entire body (pain signaling system included) cries out in its efforts to bear life.

One last time, just so you remember: LABOR PAIN IS GOOD PAIN.