And I thought I had managed to avoid the flu when everyone else had it a few weeks ago. Apparently not! I started feeling a bit crummy on Thursday and was full on fever, cough from hell, runny nose, misery, insomnia (worse than the normal 38 weeks pregnant insomnia) by Friday. This is pretty much exactly what George and my Mom (and half the other people I know) had and it seems to hang on for a good five days before improving.

Last week I was so hoping to go into labor soon. Now I’m really glad that I’m not in labor and haven’t been having any consistent contractions. Ha! Actually, the first night, Thursday night I slept terribly and spent half the night downstairs on the recliner before heartburn cleared up enough to go back upstairs to bed. The next morning George said it didn’t seem like I’d gotten much sleep (!) and wanted to know if it was from the contractions.

“What contractions? I didn’t have contractions last night,” I told him. He told me that I’d been breathing heavily and moaning every four or five minutes all night. What?? I had contractions off and on the rest of Friday (but nothing serious since then), so he was probably right. Weird!

Anyway, I’ve finally resorted to drugs so I can get some sleep (Friday night was a whole four hours). Hurray for Nyquil! I slept for a solid seven or eight hours last night and then took some Dayquil and leftover bronchitis meds a couple times during the day which let me get in two solid, two hour naps. Drugs are good! At this point the baby is close enough to due that he’s fully developed, and he’s been banging around in there all weekend. Glad he’s feeling okay anyway. Actually, they don’t really like it when you run a 102 degree fever when you’re pregnant and tell you to take a fever reducer anyway.

George has been a champ and taken care of everything while I’ve been a vegetable. He’s such a great guy! Georgie came in to check on me upstairs a couple times too.  He brought me the fan so I could sleep through all their racket downstairs and then he brought me a big glass of water when I ran out. Such a sweetie!

This whole drugs thing is kind of nice. I feel normal-er at the moment, which I’m pretty sure is directly related to the Dayquil. Guess it’s hard to tell whether the feeling better is drug-related or actually recovery-related until after the meds wear off. I hope this clears up soon. Sick + pregnant is really not too great.

Rachel

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that you’re sick. It’s so miserable to add a nasty cold to very pregnant! Your symptoms sound almost exactly like poor Ezra. He’s normally my healthy one, but right now he’s miserably sick!