Hi all,
Im not sure what to get from posting this, maybe just needing a whinge, but I will give you some background information first.
I currently have 4 beautiful kidlets, and all through their pregnacies and labour everything was perfect. No morning sickness, no complaints, easy QUICK no drugs natural births and fine recoveries.
However now I am currently 34 weeks pregnant with baby number 5. So far this has been the pregnancy from hell. I seriously hate it!!
From the get go I had morning sickness. Well no not morning sickness, after lunch and all night sickness. Ugh!! If I had this with any of my others they would have been the last!! How do ladies do it time and time again?? YUK!! Anyway, I felt horrid for the first 16 weeks with this sickness then it went away. Yay! But days after the sickness went I was struck down with debilitating fatigue and headaches of the worst kind. Every day, up until about 26 weeks. Docs wouldnt do anything as they claim it was all part of pregnancy. Yea ok so it is but geesh!! Then at 26 weeks I thought I pulled a muscle in my groin. Ohhhh OUCH!! When the pain only got worse and not better my midwife decided I had SPD. Woo Hoo, just what I always wanted. - But wait theres more....
The pain was so bad it radiated into my hips, lower back, inner thighs and knees. Around that same time I also found out bubs was in the breach position. (What?? Me?? Have a breach??) I went to the physio who did some poking and prodding only to find out that this SPD had also cause major muscular issues in those same areas. Ahh huh, so this explained why I would lie there for hours on end trying to get comfortable and it was only sheer exhaustion that made me fall asleep for around 20 mins to an hour before I was awake again and had to go through the same process. So this goes on for a while pain gets worse, no its starting to get better!! Yay .... nope I was wrong its getting worse again.
Anyways needless to say every midwife appointment has confirmed that bubs is still breach, and Im not having any major movements that suggests he is rolling let alone turning. Now at 34 weeks, about 4 weeks ago I started waking up with my hands feeling numb. Eww it felt gross! However that pain grew very quickly to include my arms and shoulders too. And guess what?? Now they are saying I have pregnancy induced carple tunnel syndrome. ARE YOU SERIOUS?? What else could I bloody get?? 3 weeks ago they suggested wearing wrist braces especially of a night time. OH. MY. GOD. How good was sleep? (aside from he getting up every hour to trickle in the loo) Sleep was bliss. Why oh why did I get excited by this? I should have known by now that this pregnancy wasnt going to give me a break for a hour let alone a second. A week was all I got before even the braces werent adequate enough to keep the carple tunnel at bay. So now Im surviving on maybe 3 hours sleep a night, I am absolutely and utterly exhausted all the time, have numb arms and hands most of the day and night and hobble around the place (which even sometimes hobbling is out of the question). Now add that to all the other minor ailments of pregnancy, like heartburn, sore rib, inflamed hemi's (lol sorry TMI) toileting every couple of seconds and getting no relief, plus the demands of running a house looking after 4 kids tending to a husband, and trying to find time for me.
Now I sit here and all I can think about is the Labour. Seriously I am so over it Im not sure if I want to go through the pain of a natural birth as well, (thats if its still an option for me) and Im seriously considering electing for a c - section. But then I get the guilts up and think - dont be such a sook!! But Im seriously not coping too well anymore and really dont know if the pain from labour will push me over the edge. Im just really stuck as to what to do.
Any advice???
Sorry its so long.
Thanks all