I look like a dork but at least I look like a pregnant dork.

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30w5d - Here's a picture taken this morning, as promised. Please ignore the fact that the ribbon that ties is flipped up. The other pictures we took had the ribbon right, but there was flash and you can see my undergarments in a startling fashion, so I won't be posting those.

I have an Easter lily in a champagne glass on my desk, because my husband is the most awesome person I know. He also made me ice cream, and didn't even comment when I requested that he add more butterscotch. Well, he laughed, but there were no words.

My lower belly has gotten significantly worse today, and as of this afternoon, I can barely walk. Yay. I think I have SPD. I'll ask about it next week. I kept trying to get people to agree that it was normal to have a sore belly in pregnancy, and everyone kept saying, "umm.. yeah, I think I was a little sore" or the equivalent. I have a very hard time doing anything that requires me to put my weight on one leg instead of both, such as walking, rolling over in bed, getting in and out of the car, putting on clothes, etc. Everything fits, from the weird back pain I had (that pretty much stopped the day I broke my rib. Not sure what to do with that info) to the clicking noise when I walk to the standing on one leg thing. I would like to stop having weird personal problems now. Because I'm still feeling like I'm having a good pregnancy, but GEEZ can I have a good pregnancy that doesn't HURT so darned much? I don't have time to cover this topic fully. Will revisit at a later date.

Does anyone actually use fresh parsley in every recipe that calls for it? Seems like most of my recipes say that you should add fresh parsley. I have done it before--I used to keep it in the fridge, cleaned and ready, but then I got bored with that. Mostly, I just throw in a few shakes of dried parsley for color (if I even do that) when I think something looks boring without it. I know that it has a flavor, but does anyone actually miss the presence of parsley in a dish? Or even notice that it's there? I can't taste it unless I chew on it separately. Maybe I'm missing the parsley tastebud. My dill tastebud is somewhat impaired, too--I don't think it has much of a taste either, unless perhaps in pickle form, but M assures me that dill is a very strong flavor. I think he's lying. Do you think parsley is an essential part of a recipe, or do people just add it (as I suspect) to be all fancy?

This is an important question that keeps me up much too late at night.

And I am still hungry. I had dinner twice and then ice cream. And I didn't tell the XM radio story. Let me just try something new and skip all the tangents. XM radio? Sucks, and they stole $150 from me, and me hates them. I might elaborate more tomorrow, but if not, remember that the key point is that they are a bunch of jävla skitapor. At the moment, I am so sleepy that I don't know what to do with myself. I am not drunk, I promise. Just tired. Very tired. Is it really just Thursday? Not Friday yet? Gah.

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I had PSD with Linnea. I just thought I was being a huge baby about it until I told my midwife that I just didn't feel like I could put up with the pain anymore. I saw a doctor who pushed on this spot on my pubic bone and I nearly kicked him in the crotch.

Tell tale signs: hard time sleeping because of hip/groin pain, walking hard (feels like your pelvis will separate), the clicking sounds which you have. . . If you do have it, find a chiropractor that works on pregnant women with this condition and it will help.

My LJ buddy Kimbis had it too and she warned me early on that I might have to break down and get crutches because it can get really bad by the end. I think the adjustments kept it from getting that bad.

Good news is that it has NOTHING to do with the labor and won't affect it in the slightest. Now your rib thing, I don't know. That just sounds awful in its own way. Hang in there preggo. ;-)

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I have been thinking that it was just normal pain, too, until I started being more and more unable to walk instead of just uncomfortable to walk. It hit a pretty rough spell at the end of this week, but today it hasn't bothered me too much. I have been trying to follow all of the suggestions about sleeping with a pillow between my knees and not standing on only one foot, getting in/out of the car with both feet, etc. I'm hoping all of that is helping, or maybe it's just that I've had some time to rest. Although I'm sorry to hear that you had it with Linnea, I AM kind of glad to hear a real person agree with my self-diagnosis. ;) I'll ask about it this week at my dr. appt but I don't expect them to do anything about it... that would be expecting just a little too much! ;)

The rib thing, by the way, is getting MUCH better. As I told Carrie in an above comment, I only have pain with it when I move a bit too suddenly, and at night when I am changing positions or getting out of bed, and even then, it's a tenth of the pain from a few weeks ago. I do have hopes that it will be completely healed soon. It's so much better right now that I have a hard time complaining about it too much. Let's just hope that it continues that way.