Physical Therapy

PT is totally worth it. Went this AM for the consult and got a whole host of exercises I can do to help.

Apparently, my right hip is tilted forward and my sacrum is tilted back thanks to the loosening of ligaments that is normal at this point in pregnancy. The easiest thing that she told me to do that I can remember without referring to my handouts is to stand up from a sitting position with one's knees in alignment, pretending there is a pillow between them. This simple thing helped so much with the multiple times a day I have to get in and out of a chair. Also, when I get out of bed, I need to do a lunge on the right to help realign my hip, then do a Kegel and butt squeeze to "keep things in place." My muscles are all tense because they are trying to hold things in place as they shift, so she did a diagnostic massage to see which specific ones were problematic. Am looking forward to my appointment next week. She said a lot of women just put up with back pain when there really are quite a number of things/exercises that can be done to help with discomfort. Pain shouldn't have to be a norm.

Have been unable to get the DVD of Ben to read on my or my husband's computer. Rats.

My sister is so excited that things are getting so close that I think she will pee her pants when I actually call her and tell her I am in labor. She says she just can't wait to see him, smell him, hold him, etc. Which reminds me. I haven't given too much thought to who I want visiting us. I just know that I don't want a big circus of a labor, or even a postpartum. Is it wrong that I don't want anyone with little kids visiting us (including our youngest nephew or my sister's older kids?) Little kids are full of germs, it is now flu season and I don't want to risk getting our kid sick. Literally everyone I work with has the sniffles right now, and I just don't want to spend the night in the ER ruling out infection in my precious newborn. This stresses me out just thinking about it.