Hayden is 6 weeks. I can’t even believe it. Yesterday I had my 6 week appointment. It was pretty uneventful apart from hearing that this insanely intense pain I’ve been feeling the past week MIGHT LAST FOREVER. When she told me that, I almost cried. What’s the pain I’m talking about?? LET ME TELL YOU. Last Wednesday, I got brave and went to Target with all three children on my own. Thursday my pain started. It occasionally felt like someone was pinching me, HARD, in one spot of my incision. I didn’t think too much of it, but it kept happening. Every hour or so I’d get this pain and while it didn’t last long, it got progressively more intense as the day went on. Friday I continued having the pain and instead of feeling like a pinch, it almost felt like a stab instead. I decided it was about time to call my doctor… even though I was rather worried about what would be said. “Superficial Nerve Interruption” was the diagnosis. I didn’t actually have a chance to talk to my doctor and since the nurse called back just an hour before the office closed she let me know that if I was able to wait until the office opened on Tuesday I could come in then, but that I should “probably go to the ER because the pain is just going to get worse.” And worse it got. It’s now an almost blinding pain, but thankfully it only lasts about 5 seconds, and doesn’t happen nearly as much as it was at first. I ended up not going to the ER and I also didn’t go in on Tuesday since i already had an appointment scheduled for Wednesday. After talking to my doctor, and having her double check that it wasn’t an infection or tear she informed me that 9 years after her twins were born, she still has a nerve that acts up. FUN.
Hayden is still her awesome self. She doesn’t so much like to sleep during the day anymore, and absolutely despises being out of arms, but she sleeps exceptionally well at night so I’ll take it. She must be growing like a weed because the past two days she has done NOTHING but eat the entire day. She thinks she can hold her head up like a big kid and surprisingly enough, she actually kinda can. She has started to smile at us – like real, intentional smiles – and it is SO COOL to see.
