36 weeks

Well 36 weeks has brought some excitement to this household. I've had a cough and stuffed up nose/drainge for the last week or two. Which is miserable when you aren't pregnant- add pregnancy to it and it beyond sucks. It ended up turning into a sinus infection and I got put on a zpack. About a week into the cough, I coughed and felt like I broke a rib. I survived through it without taking any medicine- didn't even really mention it to much to the doctor bc there was nothing they could do.

But yesterday while I was getting ready for my doctor appointment I coughed in the shower and heard a pop (same area my rib was hurting before but instead of being in the front it was in the back). It hurt to bend down and pick my phone up off the coffee table. It hurt to sit in the car, to turn my head. It hurt. Since my appointment was that day I mentioned it to Dr. H and she said that I may have pulled a muscle or moved a rib out of place but that there wasn't anything I could do. Just take it easy. Hold that spot when I cough. And I could take Tylenol. I took it easy the rest of the day which helped but as soon as I moved it would hurt again.

Well fell asleep Thursday night, turned from my left side to my right side, or maybe it was my right to my left (doesn't really matter). But that turn did me in. I couldn't breath. I couldn't move. I had to have Matt help me sit up in bed. Sitting was helping so I thought I would get up. I was hot, and in a lot more pain than before. It took a lot of effort to walk to the bathroom and had to stop half way because I thought I was going to pass out. We ended up going to the ER (I was afraid that with the breathing issue that I had punctured a lung or something)

Looking back now I guess I should have just stayed at home- because they didn't do anything. The ER doctor listened to my lungs and said I sounded good, felt my ribs and said he couldn't feel a distinct break but that that it didn't mean I didn't have one. We got some pain meds and went home. I was hesitant to take medicine while being pregnant but I needed it the first day or so. I would only take it before bed to help me sleep instead of taking it every 4 hours. And would take tylenol to help at other times.

In other news- Dr. H doesn't think that the baby is breech anymore so that's good news. We also went over my birth plan- she was on board with most of it. There were a few items that we discussed in depth that she said she wasn't comfortable doing or not doing. I was ok with it. YI plan to discuss it more with her at a later appointment as well.