The Saldana Zoo

32 weeks and the discomfort has begun! I'm still enjoying my pregnancy but things have started to hurt a little. Aside from sciatica, my hips and back have started to hurt. My hips hurt in the morning from laying on my sides so it's getting a bit harder to get comfortable throughout the night. I fully expected my lower back to hurt as the pregnancy progressed but surprisingly that hasn't been an issue. A couple of days ago I was sitting at my desk at work and all of a sudden it felt like my ribs were being spread open and I felt a little nauseous. I went to lay down to relieve some of the pressure on my back and it felt like that for about 45 minutes. Since then my mid-back has been hurting. It turns out that he's really high up right now and his back is right under my ribs. He's sideways in what's called the "transverse presentation". His back is up against my ribs, his head is on my left side, and his bottom and feet are on my right side up against my ribs. Hopefully he won't have any trouble turning and dropping down into my pelvis for delivery.

This is the position he's supposed to be in for delivery:



This is kind of the position he's in now, but with his back against my ribs and he's actually facing down instead of up:



The doctor isn't too concerned about it. I had an appointment this morning and I was told that what will probably happen is that as he turns his feet will be up in my ribs and I'll probably continue to feel discomfort there. Everything looks good, though.

We toured the hospital on Monday and even though some of the people we went on the tour with were somewhat... interesting... I liked the hospital. There is an entire building dedicated to just labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum as well as a NICU unit. A friend of mind delivered there and I've heard good things about it.

Our first baby shower is this weekend and I'm excited to see everyone. There are some people coming that I haven't seen in months. We also have another baby shower in two weeks. Well, here are a couple pictures of the belly for this week. I took them one right after the other but I look bigger in one than I do in the other. I figured I'd include both because I don't get to see this angle very often so I'm not sure which is more accurate =).