I’ve been pretty MIA in social media this week, and I’m going to keep things short and sweet here as well. I came down with C’s cold over the weekend and I’m still feeling miserable. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed that this won’t turn into a sinus infection, because my sinuses are killing me.
Hubster is such a sweetheart, though. I woke up to find this yesterday morning along with a note wishing that I feel better soon. 
Beautiful daisies and some Dayquil & Nyquil
Hubster and I were planning on going to see Lion King 3D today while a babysitter stayed with C. We were so excited to spend some time together and relive our childhood! The Lion King was my favorite movie as a kid.
Instead…C got sick with a cold. Poor kid just isn’t himself. My nap-resistant child took a 3-hour nap yesterday! He’s normally very active, but he’s just laying around and looking at his toys. It’s so sad! I couldn’t bring myself to leave my sick little boy who just wants to sleep and cuddle.
C and I went for a brisk 3+ mile walk, including a HUGE nearby hill that I’ve wanted to tackle for quite some time. It’s a gorgeous autumn day and the leaves are starting to change colors. BEAUTIFUL!
Hope you all are having a fantastic weekend!
It is after 10:30pm and I just got done taking my shower for the day. Today was kind of crazy.
Between 8:10am and 8:25am, I woke up, made a pediatrician appointment for C, got myself ready and left for the doctor’s office for an 8:40 check-in time. (Thank you to my wonderful Hubster for getting C dressed, or I never would have made it out the door on time!) Naturally, after all that rushing we had to wait until 9:02 to get called in for the appointment. The good news is that C does not have an ear infection! His symptoms are just from his cold and other than that, he’s perfectly healthy. He’s also a svelt 12 pounds, 2 ounces now! ;)
C and I have been sick since we returned home from our vacation to visit family last Tuesday. It’s awful. C has a difficult time sleeping and wakes up a lot. He often screams and thrashes his body while we try to feed him, even though he’s hungry. It takes a while to feed him and he generally isn’t eating as much as usual. This screaming doesn’t help the splitting migraine that I’ve had since last Wednesday. I don’t feel like I’m getting any better, but I think it’s because I don’t get enough sleep. I’ve exiled myself to the couch since last Wednesday to avoid waking up C with my cough. Oh the perils of a 1-bedroom apartment. :-p Being on the couch, I wake up every time C needs to be fed at night, even if Hubster is doing the feeding. I also don’t have the advantage of the blackout curtain that we have in our bedroom, so the light wakes me up early in the morning.
Despite the good news that he received at the pediatrician’s office, C refused to nap for more than 30 minutes today unless he was lying in my arms. No naps for Mama. The screaming made my head want to explode. Then this afternoon, I felt like the air in our apartment was getting rather humid and warm. No joke – less than 2 minutes later, all the windows and glass in our apartment completely fogged over. Yep, the air conditioning went out. AGAIN. Only this time it was 96 degrees with a heat index of 112. It’s the kind of heat that suffocates you.
After notifying the appropriate staff and discovering this was a campus-wide issue (we currently reside on campus for Hubster’s live-in graduate assistantship), C and I returned to the apartment to discover that it was too sticky to be habitable. I called Hubster and the three of us headed to the mall to wait it out.
Two poopy diapers in two hours later (have I mentioned I hate changing diapers in public restrooms?!), we returned to mercifully find that the air conditioning had been restored. C was fed and went to bed rather easily. Hubster sweetly washed all of the bottles while I nursed my headache on the couch. Now I’m sharing this day with you fine people before I attempt to spend yet another night on the couch, while Hubster is simultaneously watching ESPN and playing XBox 360. Here’s to another day in the life…
After a few days of a cough, sore throat and sinus pain/pressure progressively getting worse, I trekked to Urgent Care today to see what was up. Turns out there’s an 80% chance it’s viral, but since I’m so close to labor and this is rendering me completely exhausted, the doctor prescribed an antibiotic to be safe. Now I have an antibiotic for a UTI and an antibiotic for whatever might be settling in my lungs. I can’t catch a break in the final few weeks of this pregnancy!
I can’t believe I didn’t get sick my entire pregnancy until now, when I could go into labor at any moment. At this point, I’m worried about having a higher chance for a C-section because I don’t have any energy to get through labor. Hoping I’ll get better really soon so that I’m ready for this little dude to make his arrival.
At the risk of sounding like I’m whining (because at this point, I’m too tired to care)…being 39 weeks pregnant is bad enough without throwing a nasty cold into the mix. :-/
I have to spend a couple minutes bragging up Hubster. He’s pretty much been awesome throughout my pregnancy, but the last couple days he has been extra awesome. Yesterday, he did all of our dishes AND gave me a reflexology foot massage to hopefully induce labor. He looked it up on Youtube and tried it out. So sweet.
Today, he went to the drugstore for me and picked up some Robitussin DM, the only cough medicine on the “safe list” from my OBGYN office. My cough and sore throat has turned into something reminiscent of a hacking smoker’s cough. It’s awful and makes my abs hurt terribly. I don’t want to be sick when we meet our baby!
So I had to share how awesome he is. Love him!
Yesterday and today I have been feeling quite sick. Even though a friend of ours graciously decided not to attend our Superbowl party because he was sick and didn’t want to pass it along to me, I somehow ended up getting sick anyway. Headache, body ache, chills, fever, nausea. Let me tell ya, it’s not fun – especially when you’re pregnant.
I was fortunate to be able to spend the majority of my day in bed yesterday. However, my growing bump is now preventing me from being able to turn over easily. I found out the hard way that if I turn too quickly, I can pull a muscle. Yes – pull a muscle from turning over in bed. Man, I can’t wait until I get even BIGGER. :-p
Needless to say, this is why you will not find a weekly update here this week. There is NO WAY I’m taking a picture of myself in such a condition 
To any of you who are also feeling under the weather – keep your fluids up, and hope you feel better soon!