I wish I could say I was metaphorically speaking due to the fact that the next eight weeks are filled with either a gymnastics meet or a basketball tournament AND I only have about 10 weeks, give or take two, left before we welcome baby number 6 into our fold. But I'm actually speaking quite literally here. I hesitated to write about it at first since all of my pregnancies prior, with and without "professional" care have been nothing but smooth sailing and now here I sit without a care provider in sight wondering if I actually need one. But I figured if I don't dispel those myths that unassisted childbirthers are ignorant, uneducated, and all about pushing through to prove a point, who will? The fact of the matter is, when I do some deep soul searching I do feel I am in need of a change in my pregnancy but I do not feel that change is to bring an "expert" into my business. I also know that if it does reach that point, I, like most free birthers, will not hesitate for a moment to find the care they truly believe they need.
This has happened to me twice before in this pregnancy and the first two times it was such a short lived thing I honestly believed it to be a stomach bug I heard so much about from near by friends. I woke one morning in Oct. so dizzy I couldn't stand which was followed by vomiting twice. Even with my sickest of pregnancies I never threw up from them so I crawled back into bed excepting the fact I had the stomach flu. After sleeping a bit and feeling up to eating I made a full recovery by the end of the day and thought nothing of it, other than praising the powers that be that was the end of it.
Then about a week before Christmas (when it seemed like I had more friends than I could count struggling with the flu going through their home) I woke during the night to room spinning dizziness and nausea. I managed to get comfortable on the couch and fall back to sleep only to wake in the morning to feeling somewhat normal which turned into normal after eating. I suppose at this point I should have seen some similarities but it was right before Christmas and I was over joyed to not have to wait for vomiting to run through five children over the holidays.
Then yesterday morning I woke again to extreme dizziness. The alarm went off and as I sat up I felt like I was falling and immediately sunk back into my pillow. NOW I knew something wasn't right. I always have low blood pressure, pregnant or not but it usually doesn't give me too much trouble. In the past during my first trimester I will get a tad dizzy if I go too long between meals but that was always fixed by a quick snack and the dizziness was nothing compared to this. So it should be common knowledge that our bodies need to be balanced by what we put in them... what NATURAL things we put in them. But unfortunately most Dr. will not rely on balanced diets to help pregnant women with their aliments. They would much rather address to issue with drugs and procedures which snowball into more procedures and risks to both us and our babies. Research shows that most blood pressure issues can be helped with an increase of protein, increase of water and natural SEA salt, healthy fats such as omega 3s and support to the liver and kidneys for those that risk toxemia from it. I do not believe I am to the point of toxemia nor to I plan to be. Being pro-active with the knowledge I have thus far should be enough to get me and this babe back on track!
After a day of drinking so much water I had to pee every hour, taking some cranberry and consuming 100 grams of protein (which was not as easy as I thought it would be) I am feeling good as new. My to do list is picking up more fish oil, luckily my coconut oil just came in the mail and I will probably take a little apple cider vinegar to give my liver a little wash.
I do still find it a bit odd that I have never seemed to struggle with this in past pregnancies. Even before feeling dizzy I noticed I typically would wake at 4 in the morning simply STARVING but not wanting to get up to eat. We eat late dinners usually too so I wouldn't go to bed hungry. But I suppose every pregnancy is different and this would not be the first baby keeping me on my toes with their individuality. In other news with the baby, it is moving around a ton and has managed to remove it's head from my right hip which my now functioning again hip is oh so grateful about! It has a good string heartbeat which seems to be EVERYWHERE! I have located to placenta which also sounds good.
We have a couple of birthdays coming up next week and in Feb to distract me from nesting like crazy. However ordering my birth supplies is now at the TOP of my list with only 8-12 weeks to go!
Here is my 30 week belly picture, measuring my usual 3 cm ahead at 33.
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