Pasketti!

[bronwynrh]

Jeff made a delicious spaghetti sauce on Sunday, and Samuel had his first Pasketti Experience. He enjoyed it on Sunday and did pretty well with the spaghetti noodles, but he had an absolute ball on Monday, when we had the leftover sauce over rotini.

The kid went nuts.


(Click through the pic to see the gallery and the tomato sauce-plosion.)

And, a video from 5 days ago. He's a Walkin' Man! He refuses to speak, but this kid loves to walk!

In other news, I saw a surgeon today to see what he would say about my "hernia". Turns out, it's not a hernia, but (get this for wastebin terminology) "round ligament pain". And he said he'd not do anything about it anyway since I'm pregnant. Ok, so I'll accept that it's not a hernia. What I have a problem with is being told that I just have to deal with this "round ligament pain" which is an awfully benign term for something that hurt more than anything I've ever felt.

This from someone who's had migraines for 20 years and several kidney stones - one of which was 7 mm and required surgery. I know from pain, people, and this "round ligament pain" was ri-damn-diculous.

I know I'm an artard for not seeing someone about it between pregnancies, but what would they have done about it?

So now I'm stuck knowing it'll get worse as the baby grows, knowing that I'll likely be unable to handle labor without medication, and thus knowing that I'm going to have the host of adverse responses I always have with anaesthesias and narcotics and the possibility that the baby will be affected, as well.

I'm definitely going to hook up with a yoga instructor, maybe they can help... if I want any hope of doing this drug-free, I'm going to need some serious help. Self-hypnosis, maybe? Lordy, this sucks.

Comments

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

*hugs and mojo*

I'll check with some of my doula friends to see if they have any suggestions.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Cool, thank you. My doctor refuses to work with doulas, but if I could get advice from one, I'd be eversograteful.

My mom and Jeff are prepared to help, they just need to know how :)

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

That's unfortunate - though not unheard of. There seem to be some doctors who act as though doulas are trying to compete with them, or something... when really we're there to help out the mother.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

I would have been happy enough to replace the nurse with a professional who knew me. Man, was that woman annoying!

Blasted shift change took me from Great Nurse to Obnoxious Nurse just when things started to get interesting :-/

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

Ugh! d:

I hope this time around, you get some decent folks.


OK, here are some of the suggestions I've heard, already:
using a belly belt (when it gets big enough), swimming, changing positions (sleeping on the opposite side) and finding a massage therapist with sports and prenatal training.

All the links I dug up on Google seem to back these up, as well.

*hugs!*

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

I suggest drinking heavily.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

I wish! Somehow I think the Jesus-lovin' nurses at Baptist would object, though...

[travellight.livejournal.com]

Not do anything about it? What the hell is that? Have you moved to Inner Outer Mongolia or something?

[bramey.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I mean, seriously. Give me some frickin' lidocaine, cut a little opening there, and fix the damn ligament.

It seems that it should be simple, but noooooo. "You're pregnant" seems to equate with "not touchin' that with a 10-foot laporascopic pole."

I may agitate some more, but it's incredibly frustrating to have people look at you and you know they're thinking, "hysterical."

Acupuncture

[(Anonymous)]

I'm definitely going to hook up with a yoga instructor, maybe they can help... if I want any hope of doing this drug-free, I'm going to need some serious help. Self-hypnosis, maybe? Lordy, this sucks.

Try acupuncture for pain management now and during labor. HTH and good luck.

http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/aama_marf/journal/vol12_1/anesthesia.html

http://www.webmd.com/news/19991201/mri-shows-accupuncture-reduce-pain

[curlicue.livejournal.com]

Try all the shit I don't believe in...chiropractors, accupuncture, accupressure. And try massage therapy...that I DO believe in. Of course, no herbal remedies.

Since the good doctor really had no suggestions, make sure you get a second opinion. Good luck, sweets, and let us know what's going on.