This pregnancy is apparently supposed to keep me on my toes. The Monday before Christmas I started feeling like I might be getting a UTI. Odd pressure, constantly needing to pee, just odd feeling “down there”
Monday night I woke up during the early hours of the morning, desperately needing to pee, to the point that it was painful. When I tried to go NOTHING happened. I tried walking around, wiggling, squatting super deep, and some toilet gymnastics, and I was finally able to go almost 2 hours later. I was on the verge of waking Robert to take me to the hospital for a catheter when I was finally able to go.
A little reading in the morning told me I may have an incarcerated uterus. That is where the uterus gets trapped, somewhat upside down in the pelvis, with the bladder pushed up above it….which makes urinating pretty impossible. After talking to my midwife we decided that it was probably what was going on. She gave me some exercises to try before sending me in to try to have an OB fix it….which is both very painful, and requires a hospital stay and an epidural (not something I wanted on Christmas with my family visiting.
Tuesday was ok during the day, but that night I was unable to go again in the middle of the night. This time, I tried some of the exercises, and laid on my back for a while. I had been sleeping leaning forward onto a body pillow, mostly on my stomach. After laying on my back for an hour I was able to go enough to make it through the night. The next day, Christmas Eve, it was difficult to go every single time. I did my exercises like crazy, and spent a lot of time laying on my back because that seemed to help.
Finally, for Christmas Eve night, I made a specific effort to sleep mostly on my back. I didn’t have any problems that night and from then on it seemed to be a non-issue. I am so very lucky that I was able to fix the issue on my own.
Something interesting that happened once things were working again was I suddenly felt hugely pregnant. I felt like suddenly my uterus was in the way of everything. I had to figure out a new way to walk up the stairs because I couldn’t lift my knees straight up for each step. Very strange when it happens basically overnight.
