This new baby is out to get me, and its taking my ribcage with it.

About a week and a half ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a horrible pain right below my ribcage on the right side. It felt like the baby’s foot may have somehow gotten stuck between my ribs and its leg, and the baby was using every ounce of force he/she has to get the darn thing unstuck. I figured that once the little one extracted its appendage from my ribs, the pain would slowly diminish.

I was wrong.

Here it is, 10 days later, and the pain is even worse. It feels like someone stabbed me. Tom made the mistake of rolling over in bed the other night to kiss me and hit the “sweet spot” which almost sent me into hysterics because it hurt so much. The kids are always trying to love on me and LTN4, but whenever they get their little paws near the ribs, I want to scream in pain. It hurts! It hurts like HELL!

The real problem is that it hurts worse when I sit down. So, I have a little Catch-22. At 34 weeks with your fourth bundle of love and kisses, your belly feels like it weighs 60 pounds and has a magnet that is attracting it to the floor. If you stand for too long, it feels like your insides will come spilling out. So you have to sit down every so often. For me, though, sitting down is torture. If I can find a position where my back is inclined at a 20 degree angle, I can sit somewhat comfortably for 10 or 15 minutes. If I am stuck in a straight back chair, however, it’s less than 5 minutes before I want to rip out my ribcage.

I’m headed to the dear doctor on Wednesday, so I will be interested in what he has to say. My mother thinks I might have a hernia. I think I may have cracked a rib. Tom thinks I have hypochondria. If you have a theory, I would love to hear it. Send me an email at webmistress@thetierneys.com, and I will post the results.