on my mind

There's 39 days until I hit 35 weeks pregnant. It's so bizarre after having my goal date be March 3rd to all of the sudden hoping we can make it to January 27th, and even better February 3rd. After yesterday, that seems like an eternity. I contracted fairly strong last night for quite a while but was able to fall asleep and then they calmed down. 

I used to be worried about bringing a teeny month old baby to my brother's wedding in April. Now I'm praying that he'll be only a month old. 

Justin put me on bedrest today... He said no getting up unless I need to eat or pee and my mom agreed with him. They don't care that I've read articles and studies that show bedrest doesn't necessarily work for prevention of preterm labor. Not going to lie, my contraction strength triples when I'm on my feet. 

Lady was cut out for bedrest. She's sleeping next to my knees [after a hearty attempt to share my pregnancy pillow]

And finally, I've been reading on how to avoid preterm labor naturally, so these are the steps I'm taking to try and help:

-Upping my protein intake

-drinking a crap ton of water. I think I had 108 oz yesterday. 

-continuing on my magnesium supplementation. I take 800-1200 mg daily anyways. 

-continuing with Epsom salt baths, since Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate and that's what they were threatening to give me at the hospital. 

-adding more vitamin C to my diet. Thank goodness it's citrus fruit season!

-taking 1000mg of calcium daily which I read can lessen contractions. 

-drinking kefir to improve my bacterial flora overall. This goes along with my daily probiotic. I read an article that said people with celiac disease have less probiotics in them so I'm trying to ramp that up. It's also been found that not having the proper vaginal flora can cause preterm labor so I'm not taking any risks. 

-upping my fish oil intake to 2 caps per day. Ew. But I read it can help prevent preterm labor. 

-and finally, relaxing. Trying not to stress or be anxious because that automatically makes the contractions worse. 

Hopefully this does the trick and I carry my little guy to March 10th if that's how long he feels like cooking!