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Dec. 20th, 2005 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juthwaraThe weekend, she was good. We went over to Champaign, ate fondue, exchanged presents. I got seasons 6 and 7 of Buffy on dvd, and K received Sandra Boynton's three books that come with cds. So we've been listening to songs like "Oh Lonely Peas" and "Thus Quacked Zarathustra." And I'm spending a lot of time singing under my breath,
"Oh what do you do with a dinosaur,
Who eats your lunch and asks for more,
MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE!
Never own a dinosaur."
It's probably a good thing that we like children's books and records - we won't go quite as crazy listening to these things over and over again if we liked them initially.
Meanwhile, I had finally decided that Christmas cards just weren't going to happen this year. And once I let go of that and let myself relax, I found myself writing out Christmas cards last night. Not a lot, but enough to cover the closest relatives and a few friends that we're mostly on a Christmas card-level of contact with these days. So I'm feeling the glow of unexpected accomplishment.
So I got my iud yesterday. In short, ouch. But not too bad overall. It was actually very reminiscent of early labor - not constant pain, just periodic bursts of pain and cramping from an angry uterus. And also very reminiscent of labor in that I felt most of the pain in my lower back, which has me wondering.
When I was in labor, it was back labor. I didn't think much about it at the time, because back labor often happens when the baby isn't in a normal position, and since K was transverse breech with the small of her back resting on my cervix, that's pretty darn abnormal (and apparently why four medical professionals checking over six weeks never discovered this until my water broke and the doctor could reach in my cervix to feel around - apparently the curve of the coccyx can feel a lot like a head). But the pain I felt with the iud insertion was also in my lower back. And I always feel menstrual cramps in my lower back. So now I find myself wondering, am I probably going to have back labor the next time I have a baby even if it's positioned correctly? Something to think about when I'm deciding how I give birth next time.*
In the meantime, I'm set for five years, although I'll probably have it taken out in two to try for the next baby. It seems a little absurd to go to such lengths for birth control considering it took drugs to get the first baby, but my ovaries are lot like slot machines - every once in a while, they do decide to pay off and shoot out an egg. It would be stupid to be cavalier about birth control because I thought I couldn't get pregnant without help.
*No, I don't consider back labor a reason to have a repeat c-section. But if it does happen again, I suspect I won't go in with the wait and see attitude towards pain relief I had the last time. Because while the pain was manageable, I never got past two centimeters. And if that's what two centimeters was like (darn near excruciating), I can't imagine what it would have been like when I got to transition.
"Oh what do you do with a dinosaur,
Who eats your lunch and asks for more,
MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE!
Never own a dinosaur."
It's probably a good thing that we like children's books and records - we won't go quite as crazy listening to these things over and over again if we liked them initially.
Meanwhile, I had finally decided that Christmas cards just weren't going to happen this year. And once I let go of that and let myself relax, I found myself writing out Christmas cards last night. Not a lot, but enough to cover the closest relatives and a few friends that we're mostly on a Christmas card-level of contact with these days. So I'm feeling the glow of unexpected accomplishment.
So I got my iud yesterday. In short, ouch. But not too bad overall. It was actually very reminiscent of early labor - not constant pain, just periodic bursts of pain and cramping from an angry uterus. And also very reminiscent of labor in that I felt most of the pain in my lower back, which has me wondering.
When I was in labor, it was back labor. I didn't think much about it at the time, because back labor often happens when the baby isn't in a normal position, and since K was transverse breech with the small of her back resting on my cervix, that's pretty darn abnormal (and apparently why four medical professionals checking over six weeks never discovered this until my water broke and the doctor could reach in my cervix to feel around - apparently the curve of the coccyx can feel a lot like a head). But the pain I felt with the iud insertion was also in my lower back. And I always feel menstrual cramps in my lower back. So now I find myself wondering, am I probably going to have back labor the next time I have a baby even if it's positioned correctly? Something to think about when I'm deciding how I give birth next time.*
In the meantime, I'm set for five years, although I'll probably have it taken out in two to try for the next baby. It seems a little absurd to go to such lengths for birth control considering it took drugs to get the first baby, but my ovaries are lot like slot machines - every once in a while, they do decide to pay off and shoot out an egg. It would be stupid to be cavalier about birth control because I thought I couldn't get pregnant without help.
*No, I don't consider back labor a reason to have a repeat c-section. But if it does happen again, I suspect I won't go in with the wait and see attitude towards pain relief I had the last time. Because while the pain was manageable, I never got past two centimeters. And if that's what two centimeters was like (darn near excruciating), I can't imagine what it would have been like when I got to transition.
