Aches and Pains

I woke up so sore this morning.  My back was hurting, my legs were hurting and I was having kind of painful uterine contractions.  The contractions didn’t last very long and the back and leg pain went away as soon as I started walking around the house.  I think I might be at the stage where I can no longer sleep on my back.  They say 20 weeks and I’ll be there on Tuesday.  Sleeping on my side is pretty uncomfortable.  I use a pillow between my legs to try and keep my knees more level but I still toss and turn from one side to the other.  It’s hard to get comfortable.  I’ve been trying not to sleep on my back for the past two weeks but I always seem to wake up there.  I also wake up at least once, but usually twice, during the night to urinate.  So I’m not getting uninterrupted sleep at all.

On top of that my stomach felt very unsettled today.  Joe made me breakfast so I had eggs and bacon.  For lunch I ate some leftover homemade eggplant parmesan but it didn’t settle my stomach.  I just had some ginger lemon tea hoping that’ll do the trick.  The baby has been moving around quite a bit today.  It’s a very active little tyke already.  I like feeling my baby move.  Today I felt much stronger movements than usual.  I usually feel it while I’m laying on the couch.  My monthly issue of Pregnancy Newborn Magazine came today and I was reading the articles.  It’s a really good magazine with a lot of useful information and there’s always an interesting birthing story in every issue.  I’d recommend it to any expecting mommy to be.