Temperatures

[ailbhe]

My temperature is back to normal. Although the house was kept at the same temperature throughout, while there was snow on the ground I was always cold - between 35.1C and 35.3C. That's cold. But I was thinking, it's far preferable to the same time in 2007, when both children and I spent over 24 hours at 40C, with me intermittently slightly higher. That was just so much of no fun at all.

I'd love to know what made my temperature drop, though; I had a Sinus And Ears Ick so I'd have thought it would be higher, not lower, than usual.

In other health news, I have found and started using my bump support belt, and although it's a bit too big (my waist is smaller than it was when I was building Linnea) it's helping a lot, especially when I bend or sneeze. However, it has drawn my attention to the fact that I am having Braxton-Hicks contractions ALREADY, which is all kinds of crazy.

Still. We have a huge exciting new thing, which will be the basis of another post, later.

Comments

[clarahippy.livejournal.com]

Yay for exciting news! Do you mind if I ask where you got your bump support belt and does it help with backache? Working 12 hour shifts is all sorts of rubbish and my back will likely need all the help it can get in the next few months!

[ailbhe]

This one is a simple Carriwell belt; I would advise you to ask your midwife for a referral to a physio and to buy a proper back-supporting maternity belt. I think I got mine from the NCT website.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Do you swaddle your babies, and if so, do you use a shaped swaddling-blanket? There seem to be two on the market - Miracle Blanket and Grobags, and I don't know which one to get for my grandchild when he or she finally appears.

[ailbhe]

Grobags aren't swaddling, they allow fairly free movement while preventing the baby form kicking the covers off or getting stuck underneath them. We used those. Swaddling was...

... unpopular...

... around here. I've never touched a Miracle Blanket.