20 Weeks

Half way there... well technically we are over half way, but 20 weeks is a pretty exciting milestone! I'm still feeling pretty good. Something exciting that happened this week was that I saw and felt Max's little kicks on the outside of my stomach! They were followed by some horrible pain, but it was still pretty cool. Apparently the babies are big enough to start pushing on organs and ligaments on the inside of my stomach now.

This week we got our cribs, but unfortunately we need to exchange one of them because it was damaged. Billy got one of them put together though! I think he was pretty excited about that little daddy project! The room is slowly coming together. I am anxious for my chevron crib skirts and curtains to get here. They should be arriving any day! 

Daddy putting the cribs together!

This weekend we went to Omaha to visit my grandpa before he moves to North Carolina. We drove down and back in one day so it was a short visit, but it was a nice one. My uncle, aunt and cousins came from Lincoln too. It was a really nice afternoon visiting with everyone. I don't know why we don't see each other more often when we only like 3 hours apart. 

My sister Jessie, my grandpa and I

It was a good thing we came home on Saturday night, because I woke up around 3:45AM and had the worst pain I have ever had in my life on the left side of my stomach that wrapped around to my back. I had gotten so bad that I started throwing up and we ended up in the ER. They tested me for everything, gave me an ultrasound and pumped me with morphine (which did nothing for me). They found nothing. They called my doctor and he said the pain was from my round ligaments and that my stomach was just growing faster than my body could keep up. He gave me instructions to lay on my left side and I should get some pain relief. Well, I tried this and it didn't work. I went home and tried to get as comfortable as I could and the pain finally started to go away around 4:00PM. I went to my chiropractor later that week and told her about everything. She didn't seem to think that the pain I had been describing was round ligament pain. She felt around and said my ligaments were not that tight. She checked my broad ligament (a ligament that wraps around your stomach and attaches to the spine). It was tight and when she pushed on it it sent pain around to my back. Not the severe pain I was in, but I could tell it was where the pain was coming from! It is crazy to me that the team of doctors in the ER and at my OB's office couldn't figure out where my pain was coming from and my chiropractor could by just listening to my symptoms and feeling around my stomach. She is AMAZING! Every time I leave I am so impressed with how knowledgeable she is. I really don't know how I would be getting through this pregnancy without her.