Uni tries laying horizontally

This weekend Jered and I headed to Washington D.C. I attended a conference for work/school on Friday and we spent the rest of the weekend with Preston, Rob and Anna in Maryland. On Friday after I finished up with the daily conference activities I headed out on the Metro to meet Jered at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. While on my way there I had to stand on the metro and hold onto a bar above my head to keep my balance. The metro had a few fairly hard stops and I think somehow the baby got shifted around. Upon meeting up with Jered I had to take a little break because my stomach muscles felt like I had done about 500 situps.

At this point both Jered and I were a little worried- I hadn’t felt anything like this up until this point and it was a little alarming to feel tightening and abdominal-like cramping (especially considering I’m now in the 3rd trimester and cramping can be a sign of preterm labor!!). We decided to walk around the museum slowly and luckily the tightness eventually subsided.

Fast forward to later Friday evening. We had a lovely lasagna dinner at Preston and Rob’s house to celebrate Preston’s graduation. We got to meet a colleague of Preston’s and his family and had a great time celebrating with the family. Hours later (we stayed up quite late!) Jered and I head up for bed. We had both been up since 5 am Friday morning for our drive up to the D.C. area and were ready to crash. As I was changing I noticed that my stomach looked very strange. Rather than a round belly I had an oddly lumpy looking stomach with two distinct bulges, one to the right of my belly button and one to the left. Apparently the abdominal cramping I felt earlier in the day was the baby moving from a more “normal” vertical up/down position to laying side to side horizontally! No wonder I was uncomfortable!! Jered was even able to tell that my stomach looked rather odd.

Saturday morning I woke up and things were back to normal- apparently laying sideways is not as comfortable for little Uni! We had a great weekend with Preston, Rob and Anna and are looking forward to the next time we can all get together again. It’s hard to believe that the next time we all get together Uni will no longer be residing in my stomach!

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