In November 2017, hubby and I decided that January 2018 we will start trying to expand our family of two, to three.
In the previous months of 2017, God showed me a vision (it feels like a memory or flashback).
The image I was given was of me walking into our spare room, while looking at myself from the back, holding a baby in a fluffy pink blanket.
I told my husband about this vision and we decided to accept God’s path for us.
I knew we were having a girl, and I knew her name was to be Joy (named after my grandmother). In March 2018, we found out that we were pregnant!
And later learned that it was in fact a girl.
Pregnancy was great in the beginning. But later on I went through what probably every mom-to-be goes through.
“Is my baby fine? I don’t feel her moving yet…” but being only 21 weeks pregnant it was normal, my doctor assured me.
During my 2nd trimester, my hip joints became unusually loose (its usually normal cause they are preparing to push a human through) but mine was quite bad.
I would walk down stairs and my knee would just give way under me
I also have arthritis in my coccyx, so I had a lot of pain in my hips and lower back.
I was at the physio every week for treatment to deal with the pain. I also had to get a horrible unflattering pregnancy belt, to keep my hips together. I barely wore this R400 piece of fashion, as I have a hourglass body shape and the darn belt kept sliding up🙄
Along with this excruciating pain, my wrists began to pain. It turned out that I had developed De Quervain Syndrome.
According to the Mayo Clinic website they give the following explanation:
“… a painful condition affecting the tendons on the thumb side of your wrist. If you have de Quervain’s tenosynovitis, it will probably hurt when you turn your wrist, grasp anything or make a fist.
Although the exact cause of de Quervain’s tenosynovitis isn’t known, any activity that relies on repetitive hand or wrist movement — such as working in the garden, playing golf or racket sports, or lifting your baby — can make it worse.”
[© 1998-2020 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER)]
It got so bad to the point where holding anything, wiping and even washing myself was impossible.
My husband had to help me with everything. I wore these horrible thumb and wrist splints to make sure I don’t use my hands. So after crying my eyes out on the toilet, not being able to wipe or pull up my leggings. Something had to be done!
I ended up seeing a hand specialist and he injected cortizone into the side of my wrists. And just like that I was pain free for about a month! I went back, when the pain returned and he said that if this were to happen again, he would need to operate and cut the tendons loose, and they will grow back the way they should.
So after Joy was born (birthstory for another post😉) in October 2018, I had my hands operated in February 2019. It was a minor operation, and I was told I’ll be able to use them immediately.
THIS WAS NOT TRUE! For 2 days I couldn’t pick Joy up or help with her. Nevertheless it was done, and the pain was gone for good.
The parts I enjoyed about being pregnant was, no. 1 Growing a human and no. 2, eating!
I never had weird cravings, like chalk or something I would never eat.
My first craving was grenadella cheesecake, and then……. Salty peanuts with sweet. I could not get enough of Damascus Nougat, and believe me…not the medium ones!
And then, Peanut Barones🤤 ahw… So good!!!
Something I just couldn’t deal with anymore was curry or any hot food. And believe me, a nice spicy lamb curry that burns your lips a bit…yum!
But unfortunately my tolerance for hot food, dropped to zero! Still today, my tolerance for hot food is very low.
It’s so amazing how the human body works. Some women are nauseous most of their pregnancies, others gain weight, others lose weight and some glow beautifully and other people’s physical appearance change!
God truly created us women to be strong and to handle any situation life throws at us, no matter how odd, something wonderful always await at the end of the our paths.
❤️
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