While preparing to host several friends for a Murder Mystery Dinner party, I was in the living room, Hubby in the kitchen. I bent down to plug my iPad into a speaker and Hubby said "It sounds like you're leaning down." Apparently, I have developed a habit of groaning whenever I have to reach below knee level. It's true. Getting up and down from the floor takes just a little bit more effort than before and that audible "hhhhuu" seems to make it easier. It's not like I'm fat either. At 22 weeks, I've put on a mere 7-8lbs but boy, marching up to our third floor condo, I can feel it.
The left hip/sacro-iliac joint pain became much worse last week until I found myself taking baby steps across the hospital parking lot, unable to walk our dog, and totally out of my zumba routine. I sought the help of a chiropractor, with little improvement. Then, a Facebook friend referred me to a website that I had visited before but never thinking of myself. Spinningbabies.com The website is run by PTs, midwives, and some chiropractors with the goal of sharing techniques to turn breech, op or other malpositioned babies. My friend, whose baby was breech, said that while she wasn't sure if her baby would turn from the techniques (the baby did turn), but the terrible hip pain she experienced with all 3 of her pregnancies went away. So now twice a day, I suspend myself upside down from the couch, butt in the air, arms on the ground. I stretch out those hip joints with various exercises. It seems to be helping. That, or I'm at the point where everything is loosening up.
Finally, brief answers to the questions I get asked daily:
Do I have any cravings? No.
Can I feel the baby moving? Yes.
How am I feeling? Fine.
Can I touch your stomach? (Well, most people don't ask, they just go right in) Unless you are a close friend, please no, it's creepy.
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