22 Week Ultrasound and Pregancy Pains...Literally.

Yesterday I went in for my "big" ultrasound with the perinatologist. Jeff couldn't go with me which has been a little strange this entire pregnancy. When I was pregnant with Zach, he came to every appointment with me....sometimes if it were just a blood draw appointment! He was really involved, which was really nice. This pregnancy, it's a waaay bigger help for him to watch Zach while I go to my appts. Needless to say, he's hardly been to any. Yesterday was no different. At this level ultrasound, the Dr. will be able to tell you the gender. Since we don't want to know the genders, it was a little anti-climactic for me. I was a little concerned going in that I wouldn't even be able to look at the screen for fear I would see a "hot dog" or a "hamburger". I told the Dr. that when she handed me the special glasses that allow me to see the u/s screen. She asked (skeptically) if I knew how to read ultrasounds. I said no, but I've seen so many I worry that I'll pick up something. She assured me that when patients don't want to know the gender(s), she goes really fast by those areas and would be surprised if I could tell top from bottom. I trusted her and boy, was she right. She was so fast with that little wand, I could barely tell the difference between the face or the foot and she kept jumping from Baby A to Baby B! The good news is everything looks great! They are growing concurrently, which is what they want to see. They are 1lb and 1lb, 1oz. All the organs are where they are supposed to be, all limbs are present, the hearts look good...I'll have my next u/s at in early June, when I'm around 26 weeks. There they will try to do a 4D, where you can see the baby like it's in front of you...but she said it's a 50/50 chance of getting good pics/views with twins. I guess they start to get pretty squished in there.
I've been feeling pretty good lately, but since Saturday my luck has changed a bit. I've started having these pains in my groin area...on my left side it right where my thigh meets my pelvis....like my bikini line (TMI, sorry). Anyway, it's been progressively getting worse, like a sharp, shooting pain. Walking is a problem, I'm limping most of the time. Yesterday at Kohl's, I was really glad I had Zach's stroller to lean on for support. I asked the Doc what the deal was and she called them "round ligament pains". It's the ligament inside that hold the uterus and as the uterus gets bigger, they stretch to accommodate it. I asked what I can do about it and she said pretty much nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Greeeeeeaaaaaaaat. She said stretching can actually aggravate it. I just Googled it and the articles said Tylenol, sleeping with a pillow and a hot pad in the area.
Then, to top it off, I took Z to his activity class tonight. We haven't been in two weeks because of Hawaii. I asked the girls running the show if they could help me a little more tonight since I'm having these issues. They were a big help all night. Zach did great, and for the first time really followed instructions, sat in circle time for a pretty long time, did the excercises....by the time class was over, I got an incredible stitch in my right side. It still hasn't gone away and it's spasming so much that I'm actually standing up to write this. Here's the part that really bums me out. I'm 5.5 months along. I have at least 3 more months (hopefully?), how in the hell am I supposed to do this?!?!? I can't pick Zach up, I can't run after him or dance with him. This is starting to get really hard. Of course, I worry (because I worry about everything) that because I'm limping so much, I'm going to make my sciatic nerve act up (it did while prego with Z) and then I'll really be Hop-Along-Cassidy.
You know, I've come to the conclusion (like I didn't know this already about myself), that I really don't like being pregnant. It hurts, I puke, things on my body turn colors I've only seen in a Crayola box (won't get into detail), last time I starved the last three months (gestational diabetes) and now it's even worse because I have a two year old that wants his Mommy and Mommy can barely move. I'm like a 96 year old.
I'm trying to look at the positives...babies are healthy, 3 more months to go (freak out!) and we went to Hawaii and I felt pretty darn good and my son had the best time!!
But this is getting hard. And, I have a feeling it's only going to get harder.