I never posted this post a couple weeks ago, because I lost a bunch of it when typing late at night, and never went back to it to finish, but I decided might be a good story to go ahead a post…
Written on Aug. 30, 2011: Well, I don’t really know where to begin, but here we are 24 weeks! We are super excited to have made it this far with this little girl after all that we have been through. But, will be honest this is a scary week for me! I found out we had lost Lily for sure at 24 weeks on a Tuesday, so today brings back all those memories of that tough day in April of 2010. The great news is, I am sitting here at my computer today and I can feel this little girl kicking me like crazy alive and well! This seems to be a very active time for her, and it brings so much joy, as I was started to fill with worry earlier at work, wondering if I had felt her much today, but at work things are so busy, it is common not to be in tune with it as much. It is so great to be home and relaxing and feeling her kick the fire out of me again!
I have to share a little confession, that yesterday this week got even more scarier and dramatic than I ever imagined or needed. I am embarrassed to admit what I went through yesterday during this 24 week that I knew would be so full of nerves for me! Well, yesterday at 6:30Am I took my dogs for a short walk around the neighborhood as I do many mornings. We walk at a brisk pace, but nothing to speedy, and I am fine if we stop alot for them to smell all kinds of things along the way! It is definitely not a “power walk” and much different from my days of hard core triathlon training! Well, somehow, my dog Pancho pulled more inward towards me near a corner trying to get to the grass, and I stepped on his foot. I stepped on it so hard, he wasn’t able to move stopping him right in front of me. Needless to say, I tumbled right over him and fell down. Thankfully, I fell on my side and shoulder, not at all on my belly. But, I got so freaked out, my elbow was bleeding, and all I could think and pray about when I got up was that my baby would be ok. I tried to think back on what had happened, but it all happened so suddenly, I wasn’t quite sure how it had all ended up with me on the ground. I have run many many miles for 7 years with dogs and only had one other fall in the past 7 years when running with them, so I just couldn’t understand how I had lost my footing “just walking.”
I do hear that you lose a bit of balance and grace with pregnancy, but I was just “walking.”
Well, to make a long story short, I had to go in to labor and delivery and be monitored for a while. It was a bit traumatic being back there, but I survived. My favorite nurse and friend, who delivered Lily, greeted me, and that calmed me quite a bit. Once we both knew the baby was ok, she gave me a bit of a hard time, which was great for getting me to relax a bit. We decided that maybe 24 weeks is a good stopping point for me walking 2 dogs at the same time in the dark early mornings.
So, I definitely made this 24 weeks more eventful than planned, but so great that our little girl is doing well, and that we are all ok. And, this was a huge milestone for me mentally and emotionally just to make it this far and be past the 24 week, feels so great!!
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