So, about, oh...40 weeks into my pregnancy with Heidi Jean (during delivery) I found out that I have scoliosis. I made it to 25 years old without discovering that little fact. Mom says it was never brought up at any of my well-child visits, so we had no way of knowing. My theory is that pregnancy made it more pronounced. Now when I don't have clothes on there is a pretty noticeable difference between my hips. Anyway, with Heidi's pregnancy I had a ton of back pain throughout. Sitting at my desk at work was like Chinese water torture or something. It hurt so badly.
And now, at 5 weeks 4 days, my back is ALREADY hurting. Seriously, what could a baby the size of a sesame seed be doing to make my back hurt? I get it that things loosen up (ligaments and muscles and such) during pregnancy, but this is ridiculous. I'm thinking I'm going to need to modify my work chair with a pillow or something for the 8 months of pregnancy that I'll be working (not counting this first one). I'd really like to go to the chiropractor throughout the pregnancy, but I don't know if I can fit it in schedule-wise without taking off of work all the time, so it probably won't happen. I'm just going to try not feeling guilty for laying around for the remaining days of my summer break. And I'm going to try to remember that I thought it would be neat to be due during the school year (as opposed to during the summer like I was last time), so that the kids could see me right up to the end and know when I was gone that I'd had the baby.
In good news, only 15 days now until we get to see our baby!
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