It's definitely interesting - I saw a diagram recently of where all the internal organs go by the end when the baby is full term and it was a little bit startling. It's amazing everything still works at all!

Well, the good news is that our kids tend to survive and thrive in spite of a lot of things we realize later we probably shouldn't have done. I took ibuprofen a couple of days toward the end of my first pregnancy because I was so sore and found out later that ibuprofen can seriously compromise a newborn's heart from being able to switch over to independent function at birth, so it's absolutely not recommended in third trimester even though it's safe to take after the baby is born. Thankfully, my oldest had no trouble with her heart!

Here's hoping on the plan of action...I've been praying not to do that particular bit of recovery again...but I suppose if it's a problem again I'll know we can get through it. You know, ironically the reason I was taking high doses of calcium (and magnesium) was because I was trying to head off the after pains that get more severe with each baby and I found a lot of advice from older moms suggesting CalMag as a good way to help your muscles not spasm so much. My thought process was that it would be better to take high doses of calcium and magnesium instead of ibuprofen or acetaminophen for the couple days after the baby was born. And then I ended up taking massive doses of ibuprofen for a solid week. Sometimes solutions just don't go as planned...