numby

I have been dealing with severe swelling in my legs since I was 30 weeks pregnant - that is 8 weeks ago. It is so bad that I can only sit on a chair with feet down for about 5 min or stand up for about the same amount of time. My legs start to hurt bad if I try to sit or stand longer. I can walk - sort of - but ever since the swelling reached the top of my thighs that is pretty hard too.

Now the last days I have noticed that my inner thighs and my 'private' has gone numbed. I wonder what that is all about. Hubby is worried and want to take me to the hospital today. I do wanna go and I want the little one out but I also worried that they will say no or that the little one will get more problems if he is born now.

The ideal will be that he is born by c-section later this afternoon/evening now how do I go about to convince a very conservative hospital to do that...

just keep swimming..

Hubby took me to the pool today. We seem to have picked a bad day though because the pool was full of bratty kids, but I still got about 30 min of feeling light again. I love the feeling as soon as I step into the water and my legs moves easy again and I cant feel the weight of my tummy. The time in the pool did nothing for my swelling, but at least I felt good for a little while. The little one seem to like it too, he was squirming around in my tummy.

There was a couple of odd guys at the pool though. On older guy seem to be asleep in the sauna. I got a bit worried about him actually and asked the lifeguard to check on him. He was alright apparently just tired or something. When we left he was staring at all the kids, seemed a bit creepy actually - or maybe I'm just to paranoid..

Then there was Mr Snorkel. Another older guy was wearing a snorkel mask and just layed in the pool with his face down in the water. Can't imagine there is much to look at, at the pools bottom. He was doing weird things with his arms and legs too and hubby commented that he was probably exercising.

Hubby tried to do a few laps, but realized he was not in very good shape anymore.I guess getting all of your wife's pregnancy cravings can do that to you.