Pregnancy Update

7-17-12
Wow, I almost dated that with an eight instead of a seven!  If only it was August already!  No such luck :).  Actually though, the reason I decided to update today was because I am actually having a good day!!  I woke up with a lot less pelvic bone pain!!  For the past week or so, and mainly on the camping trip, I've been experiencing the weirdest pain in my pelvic bone.  Feels like it's coming apart and when I move, I feel like I'm squishing my baby's head or something.  I can just see him coming out with a black and blue head from being crammed in there so hard and long!  It's incredibly painful as well.  At the campout it was almost unbearable, and walking up and down our little pathway to the car was almost impossible.  I would have to stop walking for a minute and wait for the burning sensation to end.  It's intense!!! (yes, Nate, like camping :) ha. ha.)  So anyway, it's felt a little better since the blessing I had last Thursday, but not until today have I felt it subside completely.  I think it MIGHT be because of the crazy stretches and contortions I put myself through last night.  Hanging myself upsidedown, hoping to move Mr. Wigglepants (that's Wormie's new name, even though we know he doesn't have any pants on) back up a little.  I THINK it worked!  Or at least my head has made it work :).  I did have to do it a few times, and I expect to have to do it again at the end of each day as I can feel him slowly making his way back down there.  I'm pretty sure he's turned down already.  But hey, I'll take what I can get!  I've felt a MILLION times better today and I NEED to mention it and be grateful for it!
Ever since I sat and talked with pregnant Julie Buckner at the ward party the other night, I've been feeling really guilty about complaining about this pregnancy.  Julie's been having problems with her Gallbladder, so she has super bad heartburn mixed with a pain that goes from her back to just above her uterus.  She looked awful.  And sounded so uncomfortable.  I'm not going to say that I don't feel like crap, I do, but to think about a different kind of pain, like that one, and realize at least I'm not experiencing that, made a difference for me.  I had to thank my Heavenly Father for all the things he has done for me with this pregnancy.  I think I've mentioned it before, but it's a good thing, so I will again, but I haven't had NEAR the back pain that I experienced with Erika's pregnancy.  I feel like that is a result of the working out I did for the almost year leading up to when I got pregnant.  And I am SO grateful that Heavenly Father helped me to do that.  I really felt him dragging me out of bed every morning, and with the hopes that I would lose weight to make this pregnancy better.  But Heavenly Father had a different plan, and I think it was more for strengthening my back than anything.  I'm SO glad he knows what's going on and can prepare things that I have no idea need preparation!  He made it so my back pain is not so unbearable.  It's really fairly normal back pain and I couldn't even complain about it.  ALSO, my allergies!  I have had almost NO trouble with my allergies during this pregnancy!  Not near as much as I had expected knowing I would be pregnant all summer.  It's really miraculous!  In the past I've struggled a lot with allergies during pregnancy, so this is just heavenly to not have to worry about that.  So with all the strange new symptoms have come some strange new reliefs from others :).  I should really be more grateful.  Even heartburn too, hasn't been near as bad.  I was worried I would have that intense heart-attack kind again, like I was having a few months before I got pregnant, but nope!  Another miracle.  It's nice to notice all that Heavenly Father has done.  He's really helped me.  I've been blessed with lots of naptime as well.  And that's mostly because I have the best husband in the world, with such a strange schedule that it really just works out.  He's been amazing to let me relax and sleep so much.  I can't take that for granted.
So as you can see, things are not ALL bad.  I have my complaints still, but it's time to put them away.  It's time to realize that this is just how it is, it will be done soon enough. I enjoyed telling Lori Archuletta at Costco the other day, that we'll make it!  We only have a little more time left, and we will survive.  Feels much better than whining about every little ailment.  I need to remember that.  Practice it.  Be happier and have a better attitude.  I will survive.  Things will be fine.  We will have this baby before we know it and all will be worth it and surprisingly forgotten!  As we know from past experience.  So suck it up and move on, Christa, you've been a big baby!! :).
I know that this may not last, even past tomorrow, and I will have other bad days, but I sure would feel ungrateful if I didn't recognize the good days and make sure to point them out to myself :).  I hope someone else asks me how I'm doing today because I actually feel good!