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Wednesday night I started feeling not so good. My body temperature kept going from hot to cold, my whole body ached, I was shaky, and just plain dead tired. Rob thought it was exhaustion kicking in and I thought he was right so I headed to sleep thinking things would be better in the morning. I was half right.
The problems that I had the night before were gone on Thursday morning, but a new one had taken their place. I woke up with the worst migraine I had ever had in my life. Rob was running late to work because he spent a lot of time trying to calm Gabriel down and heard me whimpering. He thought I was having a nightmare and came over to wake me up. I was already awake and I told him about the migraine. He offered to stay home and I told him not to, that I'd be fine. Okay, yeah, that was pretty much a lie, but I didn't want to get him in trouble for skipping work. Granted, he's entitled to paternity leave which he's not taking, but when he took off for our anniversary last week his boss kind of got pissy about it. He knew I was bullshitting by saying I was fine and he ignored my protests and called in to work saying he wouldn't make it in. That was probably the best idea since I would have had a nearly impossible time taking care of Gabriel in the state I was in, but I still felt bad about him having to take another day off.
Once I knew he was staying I let him know the extent of the migraine. It was bad. I've had some bad migraines in the past, but this was by far the worst of them all. The light was off in the room, but the small amount of light that could come in through the closed blinds bothered me and made me nauseuous even with my eyes closed. So, I found something I could tie over my eyes to make everything pitch black. I also didn't move much at all because movement also made me feel worse and nauseous. Rob put a migraine ice on my head and I couldn't take my migraine pills because I'm still on pain meds for my incision, but I did take my incision pain meds (it was time for them anyway) hoping that they would also help with the migraine. This all happened around 7:30 to 8am.
Around 2pm I was able to get out of bed. The migraine was gone and instead I just had a really bad headache. That I can deal with. Rob has to be the most amazing husband and father ever. I am so grateful that he was willing to take off and help me yesterday. I'll now admit that I couldn't have done it on my own with the shape I was in. I still feel bad he took the day off, but I appreciate it more than I can ever tell him. He's wonderful.
The rest of the day we both took care of the baby and by bed time my headache was almost gone. Today it's gone completely. I do however have some other oddness going on. Just as a heads up, the next paragraph might be considered TMI and is going to deal with post-partum bleeding. Skip it if you want to.
I was told in the hospital that my lochia could last up to about six weeks after labor. I was also told that for those six weeks I couldn't have sex, use a tampon, or have anything at all put into my vagina because there's a risk of infection. My lochia went normally and tapered down like it should have. For the past few days I didn't even need a pad and wasn't even spotting anymore. Then, this morning, I was bleeding again. Not super heavy, but enough that I need a pad and it's bright red blood. I don't know if this is normal or not. A call has been put into my doctor, but it can take a day or two to hear back if she's busy and if it's not an emergency. Is this normal? Rob brought up the fact that as of tomorrow it will have been one month since I have given birth and it could be my period, but I doubt that. My period usually doesn't come on time and if my uterus us still shrinking back to pre-pregnancy size what buildup would there be to shed for a period? For those of you who have had babies is it normal to just start bleeding again?
Okay, if you skipped the last paragraph the TMI section is over. Anyway, Rob's back at work today and other than the usual (my incision still hurts on the inside and out) and what I mentioned in the above paragraph I'm doing all right. The baby is actually napping at the moment so I figured I'd shower and do what I could on the computer. I need to wake him up at 1pm for his next feeding and can't be guaranteed that he'll go back to sleep after it. Thank god the weekend is coming up. In about 5 hours, I'll have some help from Rob for the next few days. Woot!
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