32 wks- Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

I wanted to post this on March 1st, but had an exciting weekend. In my family we have a tradition of saying "rabbit rabbit rabbit" to each other on the first day of every month. It has become a competition to see who can say it first and a good luck charm to be the first to say it. I didn't win this month, but I did make it to 32 weeks today, so I must be lucky! I reflected on March 1st that I have been through 3 "rabbit rabbit rabbits" since my bed rest started and hopefully will have one more, but we are just getting so close to the end.



Last week I had an evening/overnight that was a little scary. I had back pains and shooting pains at the site of my stitches. It is normal to have pain at the stitches at this point because the baby and my uterus are getting bigger and that causes the stitches to shift and stretch. Wednesday the pains were much more frequent and much more severe, sometimes taking my breath away for a second. My back pain could have been from lying on the couch for 11 weeks, but it felt the same as the back contractions I had at 23 weeks, so I was nervous. I tried to go to bed and see if the relaxation would make these pains go away, but I was woken by the pains multiple times throughout the night. I called the doctor's office as soon as they opened in the morning even though the pains seemed to have subsided a bit and my back pain was gone. As the hours of the day passed on, the pains subsided back to normal and the doctor said I just need to head in to be assessed if they come back. Luckily, it's been almost a week without any recurrences at this point. Maybe baby was going through a growth spurt.

You can see the "growth spurt" exhibited in my girth here. 

This is a sneak peak from our awesome mustache-themed baby shower on Saturday.

Being at 32 weeks means we are beyond a lot of the scariest risk factors of prematurity, so it is with a HUGE sigh of relief that Sean and I woke this morning. My stitches will be removed at 36 weeks (unless baby has a different plan) and we will still hopefully stay pregnant for a week or two or THREE after that. I hear the NICU is very busy, so I will do my coworkers a favor and stay out of there!