28 weeks

I can say with a straight face that I have no idea how big baby boy is supposed to be at this point. In fact other than his constant thumping and the fact that he's making me pee myself a lot, I wouldn't even know I'm pregnant right now.

I can tell you that I was up from 12am until 5am yesterday with tears streaming down my face from the inability to breath, the relentless cough (and peeing), and what felt to be 6 or 7 RAGING toothaches all in my upper back molars. I swear on my life I felt like someone had taken a baseball bat to my mouth. WTF??? My husband had to take off work just to take me to my appointment yesterday (which was a standard checkup + gestational diabetes test).

Turns out I have a severe sinus infection. Now, I've been diagnosed with sinus infections before and to me they've always felt like a bad head cold. I have never in my life had mouth or facial pain so severe that I cry for 5 hours straight in the middle of the night.

Turns out that if your maxillary sinuses get infected and swollen enough they will actually protrude into the roots of your teeth. Holy hell. I can not begin to describe the pain.

So knowing that if the infection has been caused by a virus that antibiotics won't help, I scored myself a healthy dose of them anyway. Doctor says they won't hurt (I am by no means an antibiotic junkie) and for this type of infection at this stage of pregnancy that I need to cover all treatment bases.

So here I am, 2 doses into my treatment and I feel better. Better is relative. My teeth (and face) still hurt. But more like I ate too much sugar and less like I've been bludgeoned in the face with a 2x4.

Oh and the toddler who has been off an on sick for over a week . . . I got him to the doctor today. Raging ear infection. Poor kid. I've been too sick to even realize that he was *that* sick.

So we are both suitably drugged and hopefully will be better soon.

And that's what I have to say about being 28 weeks pregnant. :(