and so on...

Well, I guess each day now will be different from the next, and I'm not sure what comes next.

After reflexology yesterday, I was experiencing a slew of Braxton Hicks. Throughout the night, I was feeling some strong menstrual-like cramps and did get out of bed for an hour to recline on the living room recliner but was thankfully able to go back to bed and sleep.

This morning, I was feeling Overactive Pelvis Syndrome - things stirring, contracting, twinging, pressing, tingling - a whole smorgasbord of sensations. Last night, before going to sleep, I said to G. "I really want Denny's breakfast tomorrow - I want bacon and sausage with my eggs."

As soon as I got up to pee in the morning, G. immediately said something about going to Denny's. I am now having a lot of difficulty walking but keep trying to limp and hobble through it. So even though my right hip was crooked with shooting pains across my lower back, we went to get some breakfast.

Once home, I laid down for a 2 hour nap. I just could not help myself - it was an imperitive that I sleep, and I just heard my body telling me to "Sleep Now" and obeyed.

Then it was time for my Reiki session. I had told the Reiki Master that I wanted the treatment to be a bonding experience for Noa Grace and me, to harmonize our energies and unblock any blockages. The whole session was incredibly relaxing, and I alternated between imagining myself in the womb with her, playing and laughing, and then explaining to her what was ahead for both of us.

I was using phrases like "push down with your head so everything opens up" and "go through the pathway to the flower which will open for you." I told her I would take her hand (figuratively) and guide her to where she had to go and then when she got to the end of the pathway, I would touch her head so she would know the way out.

I also suggested positioning for her - face toward my spine, not away from it - and how to tilt her head back and then tuck her chin to make her way down.

After the session, I asked the Reiki Master if she had observed or felt anything in particular or had any thoughts or suggestions for me. She said that she felt a lot of energy at my feet so she worked to ground me to the Earth. She also felt a lot of energy in my head - a lot of thinking going on - so she worked to connect me to the Universe. She said in Native culture, for childbirth, this grounding and connection is important.

She also said during labor I should imagine a flower opening - that as the baby passes down and through, the petals unfold. I told her I was already thinking in terms of a flower, that I had visualized it and even told NG about it.

Once home, we got ready for lunch (i.e. Mom was making it). G. asked if I wanted to go to the Renaissance Fair before or after he mowed the lawn after lunch. I was totally and utterly unable to say. Finally I said, "I don't think I can plan things anymore. I have to take things in the moment. I won't know until after we eat."

After lunch, he said he was going to mow. "I want to go to the fair now," I announced. The moment was there, and I knew if I waited at all, I'd be unable or unwilling to go later.

We went and walked around in a light drizzle. Walking was even more slow and painful, but I just took it step by step and knew the walk itself was very important for me.

Back home, I took another 2 hour nap. Again, it was something so urgent, something I could not resist and just went with it.

Since then, NG has been in a super active mode - she feels like she is positioning herself in just the way I had suggested. I keep telling her that other things have to happen before she can actually travel down the pathway - like a hormone exchange, the cervix opening, the contractions - but she seems to think if she just pushes and prods, kicks and punches her way around, that things will get going.

It doesn't hurt exactly to have her moving so forcefully - maybe a little at the top of the uterus - but she hasn't let up for several hours so it is getting uncomfortable. Of course, when I tell G. or my Mom to feel her move, she stops moving like she is playing a game ("Who me? Moving? Not me!")

Wiggle, tingle, punch, kick, press, push, slide, flip. It is making me have to pee several times an hour.

And so on, and so on, and so on....

P.S. Full moon tonight...

Comments

[plucky punk]

Yeah, this is exactly how I've felt the past few days (except for instead of the ren faire, it was the gay pride parade). And today I was sooo sick all day, seems like the hormones are gushing anew.

I wonder which one of us will go first...race ya!

[aliza at babyfruit]

You're on! haha! I'm just so not in a hurry but not hesitating either. Today, I'm just feeling pretty darn normal - as normal as you can with a hip out of whack, a belly the size of Texas and a cervix that keeps whining!

[Rebekah]

Thinking of you, praying for you and hoping that NG makes her appearance soon. I know it's rough, especially with her moving so much, but you sound like you are in such a good space mentally and physically. You're doing such an awesome job at resting when you can and taking wonderful care of yourself. I know you are going to bring your baby into the world in such a positive, powerful way.

[breathetime]

exciting to read about maternity reflexology in practice.
jo

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