| YouTube videos got me thinking again |
[Jan. 29th, 2009|11:04 pm] |
Just finished watching a video on You Tube. Jason told me about the newest ProLife ad...in which it shows a developing fetus and says that that baby would live a hard life, dad would abandon mom and baby, single mom would raise him, but through the hardships he would become the 1st African American President. Ironic since this President has promised to sign the Freedom of "Choice" Act which will allow a 13 yr old pregnant girl to get an abortion without telling her parents she was even pregnant in the first place...among other regulations it abolishes. He feels everyone has a right to choose what to do with their own body...but apparently a baby doesn't matter. A baby's not a person. Cause you know, an unborn child can't breathe air so it can't really be human. A baby's heartbeat starts before 7 weeks gestation. It has fingernails, deveolping lungs and a brain. So if a beating heart and a working brain aren't indicative of a live human, what does?
Anyway, the video I watched last was one I was actually warned about awhile ago from a co-worker; but haven't been too into YouTube enough to search for it. It's a letter written from an aborted baby to it's mother. It's beautiful, true, and made me cry so much I had a hard time reading it.
I just can't imagine how this has become so acceptable. I know there is stress, fear, and pressure for most of the women who have abortions. I just don't get how abortion can be such an acceptable "choice". |
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[Jan. 18th, 2009|11:31 am] |
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Baby's sleeping, 11 yr old is not due home for another hour or two, and the girl is downstairs doing who knows what. My back is killing me and I'm seriously considering going into the bedroom and see if I can figure out the yoga dvd I got theother day. I miss bieng able to do Tae-Bo but my back can't handle the quick movements and turns. So I got some yoga stuff to try and stretch and strengthen my back to be able to do it again. This sucks ass. 27 and my body aches this much? What the fuck am I going to be like at age 60? |
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| Well, it certainly has been long enough |
[May. 5th, 2008|06:57 am] |
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Wow. Time sure does fly with a new baby. Wyatt's already 5 months (on Wednesday) and I can't believe how much he's grown. I look at pictures of his first weekend or see a newborn somewhere and have a hard time believing that my child was ever that small. He started smiling real smiles about Christmas time (I know, he wasn't even a month old at that point), and laughed a week later or so. He's been smiling and laughing ever since at everyone and everything. I have video on our cell phones of the first time he rolled from his front to back. Still hasn't mastered rolling from back to front yet, but that'll come in time. He is blowing raspberries, chewing on his toes, reaching for everything (and attempting to put it all into his mouth), and so much more. He's tickilish so I have tons of fun seeing how I can make him laugh from one day to the next, or even from one minute to the next as he'll be laughing and then stop laughing for a preferred smile, until I do something new.
Michael does a great job with him by playing, keeping him entertained if I'm busy, carrying him around some, and generally being such a good big brother. It's nice that he does that, there's not much jealousy and what is there we're all working around/through.
Michael's football team last fall made it to the Superbowl (second time in a row) but this time they came up short and didn't win. Hopefully next year. He is pretty sure he did great on his WASL's. I hate those tests. They're standardized tests that are required to graduate high school. If you don't pass all sections your last year taking them, you don't graduate. So as a result the teachers have to teach to the test. I really wish they could get rid of them, or find a better way. The tests are run every year, but I think they only count at certain grades, and they last 2 weeks. That's 2 weeks my kid isn't learning anything new. He's just spitting out what they've told him.
Oh well. Gotta run though, time to take the baby to my in-laws for the day so I can go to work. Hopefully I'll find time to post before another 5 months goes by an dI don't realize it. |
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| Just a quick note |
[Dec. 10th, 2007|10:33 am] |
More later, but mother-in-law is on her way over so I can run errands.
Wyatt Eugene was born on 12/7/07 at 4:58pm. 7lbs 6oz; 21 inches. Check out my MySpace acct to see pics (GoldLizard of course). I'll try to post one here later, but I hate trying to post images on here, it doesn't work most of the time.
Anyway, gotta run, but wanted to let everyone know. |
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| update |
[Nov. 24th, 2007|12:51 am] |
Ok, very quick update as I'm beginning to get sleepy but I know I haven't posted in so long...plus may not get to soon.
Still no birth, but I'm hoping for any day now. I'm now at 38 weeks and having such a hard time moving around I just want to be done with it.
Thanksgiving was great, went to my in-laws and had a wonderful meal with them and some friends of theirs. Went again tonight as there was so much food, and brought half of that back with us for leftovers over the weekend.
I'm still working, and will till I can't anymore (beginning of labor I'll call and let them know, but I'm working till then). We've gotten the new girl pretty well trained. Sunday will be her last working with someone (me) but it shouldn't be a problem for her, she's done great with everything else. I've trained her for some of my paperwork, and others already know the rest so I'm not worried about my work being left.
Trial for termination of mom's rights to the boys is Dec 3 and 4. Was supposed to be Nov 1 and 2, but her lawyer was able to get it delayed. Luckily it wasn't as long as we'd expected. So we'll see what happens.
And there's not much else, plus I'm sleepy...post more when time allows. |
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[Oct. 26th, 2007|09:13 am] |
| Reeses Peanut Butter Cups | 
Very popular, one of you is not enough. |
That has to be my favorite candy of all time. I can't get enough of them right now. |
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| I hate families sometimes |
[Oct. 19th, 2007|09:50 am] |
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Who the hell thinks it's ok to yell at a pregnant woman? I wish they'd get it through their thick fucking skulls that my husband and I have made a decision and my foster child will not go to their house this weekend, no matter how upset they get. And do they really think that yelling at me is going to get them what they want? Fuck them. Now I'm upset and my husband, who always calms me down and deals with people like this, is at work and I can't call him to help. So I'm trying very hard to do it on my own. 2 called me, grandma and uncle (of the kid), grandma was obviously upset but knew I had made up my mind. Uncle then calls and yells and chews me out so much, then when I had a phone ringing and someone in my office I told him I was at work and had to go, he continues his tirade. I hung up on him and (unfortunately) slammed my cell phone down. I don't normally do that, and since it's a new phone I don't really want to break it so soon (can't afford to replace it). I hate being upset, esp now. I am normally a person who gets flustered and upset easily, and I'm trying very hard to learn to chill more and take things in stride. Then people yell at me. I understand they're upset, I understand it'd be nice to have him there this weekend for the party, I understand too that grandma doesn't have a lot of money and that child eats a lot (but then I don't have much either and I still manage to feed him what's in my house). But we've made a decision, and a 12 yr old who doesn't like us or the decisions we make isn't going to respect us if we cave to his grandmother and uncle at their every whim. |
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[Oct. 12th, 2007|11:11 pm] |
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I'm so tired right now, but my feet are in so much pain I want a bath first. But the child used so much hot water I have to wait awhile before I'll have enough. I tried a little earlier, but only got barely half a tub of warm water before it went cold. So I'm trying to wait long enough to get to soak my feet and legs. |
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| Movement |
[Oct. 1st, 2007|08:53 pm] |
It's good to know that even when I don't feel Wyatt move for a couple days he's still healthy and kicking. I'm to feel him 10 times in an hour once a day. I usually do this between 10pm and 1am, as that is when he's almost always contantly moving. Even if I'm busy for the first half of this, when I calm down and relax (and pay attention) I can usually count 10 within 30 minutes. Friday was 9, Saturday was 7...I just thought at that point that since I'd been fairly busy and didn't count earlier that I'd just missed a few as I'd also felt him while busy. Didn't worry about it too much. Till last night (Sunday). I only felt him move twice once I started counting, and didn't feel him before that so I know I didn't miss any counts. I walked a bunch and had been cramping in the last half of the day as well. Hubby and I decided that if I didn't feel him in the morning at the normal rate, and was still cramping, that I'd call the dr. Well, I got up at 7, by 7:08 was in the chair relaxing while the boys got ready for school, cramping started with a vengence when I woke up. Usually when I sit in the chair in the morning I feel him move randomly a few times before I have to get up and get going for the day. Nothing. No movement, no hint of movement, and cramping continued. 7:40 I woke hubby up so he could get ready, and we decided I should call. I called at 8 when the office opened, and the nurse called me at 8:30 to ask if I wanted to come in for a non-stress test/fetal monitoring. Of course I went in immediately. Layed on the table for a good 45 minutes with the monitor hooked up watching the heart rate. It moved from 140 to 184, which apparently meant that he was moving around, I just couldn't feel him for some reason. So he's good, by heart rate never jumped, and I have an appt on Wed anyway. It was nice to know he's still ok. |
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| Cord Blood Banking |
[Sep. 28th, 2007|11:57 am] |
Just a quick post. I printed the form for Cord Blood Donation (so research or other American's can use Wyatt's umbilical cord blood stem cells to fight diseases instead of aborted fetus stem cells). 14 pages for the consents and paperwork. A bit much, but they do have to ask about all kinds of diseases so that the samples are safe for everyone. I don't have the money to bank it privately for only our immediate family, so I decided that since donating doesn't cost me anything and others get the benefit, why the hell wouldn't I do it. Should be able to complete my half this weekend, then take the ones the dr has to sign to him and have him do it on Wednesday when I go in for my check-up. |
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| 28 weeks |
[Sep. 15th, 2007|09:37 pm] |
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Wow, another month has gone by and I haven't written a thing in here. Well, I'm now 28 weeks pregnant and though I'm showing it's not near as big as I'm sure I'm going to get. I am getting three baby showers, (one from my hometown, one from my coworkers, and one from my sister-in-law) with the first being next week. I always imagined my belly being bigger at the showers, but this one is early because I don't like driving on the icy roads to my mom's, and definetly am not doing it while pregnant. That and my husband and parents don't want me driving up there either. I'm stretching it in October when I go up for Opening Day of deer season but it won't be icy yet. I'm excited to see the lady's I grew up with and haven't seen in years now.
Cravings have been strong in the second trimester...melon and chocolate (not eaten together of course). I've eaten a few watermelons, a cantaloupe and some honeydew all by myself. Not to mention the chocolate I know I shouldn't eat so much of. My tastes have changed a little, surprising and now always pleasantly. I've never been fond of mushrooms, in fact I'll not eat them unless I can mask the flavor with other foods...but lately I've actually been eating some when my husband saute's them with onion and green pepper, and at work last week the drug reps brought a lunch of mushroom sandwhiches and though I didn't eat all of the mushroom, I did eat a good portion of it. May come around more with that flavor, but for now it's kinda surprising that I can eat them now without gagging. Found one thing I can't drink. I know I'm not supposed to drink diet drinks, but a drug rep gave the receptionists a bottle of Coko Zero (or whatever the newest Zero cola is), and I got about a quarter of it down before I just couldn't take any more. The flavor was ok, and I'm sure in a non-pregnant state it'd be ok, but it just didn't sit well. So I gave it to a friend and told her to give it to her husband. That's actually the first and only thing I've had with artificial sweetner in it since finding out I was pregnant. Trying to stay away from it as there's no study saying that any level of aspartarme is safe for a growing baby. About the only thing I miss is gum, and though I'm sure there's not much in gum, I just have chosen not to have even that much. Fanatical I'm sure considering the amount of chocolate I've eaten, but I don't care.
I love to feel Wyatt move though, and watching him move my belly has to by my favorite activity at night. He's most active in the mornings and evening/night. He sleeps most of my work day and so far has slept while I bowl Friday evenings. I just hope he keeps that one up after he's born as well. He loves peaches, being read to, and hearing daddy's voice. If Jason's home and talking (rather than just watching tv) he'll move more often than when I'm resting without his voice in the room. Not fond of those times he moves onto a nerve or the wrong muscle to make my back or legs ache so much. Hip spreading it's my favorite either. I was bowling last night, and though all day he'd been laying so my lower back was aching and tight, he moved onto a nerve and shot pain down my right hip and leg right as I step up on the approach. That was interesting, and I don't remember what I got that frame but it wasn't easy to bowl that one.
Another thing that surprised me was my breast size growth. I was a DDD when I started, and when my bras didn't fit well anymore I went online (can't find DD much let alone larger in stores) to get a new one. I figured an E should work, thinking though I'd grown it didn't seem much more than a size. It came and when I tried it on it seemed smaller than the one I was wearing (probably stretched that one out though). No way was that going to fit. So I sent it back in exchange for the only size larger in that style, F. Couldn't believe it when it came and actually fits. Comfortable though. My belly is barely past my chest, and depending on my position sometimes my chest is further out than my belly, still. Frustrating and I'm sure doesn't help with the aching. Oh well, here in a year or so when I stop nursing I'm sure they'll go down again to a fairly normal size for me. And then eventually when we can afford it and I'm done having kids I'll have a reduction. My dream would be a C or D at the most. Only time will tell though. |
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| Remind me again why we chose this |
[Aug. 11th, 2007|02:32 pm] |
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We've got a busy weekend ahead. And it's only early afternoon on Sat. We have 2 extra kids until Tuesday; Monday a third extra kid is coming (but Michael's heading to my in-laws for the afternoon/night so that'll help). The last one is staying till Friday. Birthday party in 30 minutes, I work tomorrow, then another birthday party after work. The one today is for a girl turning 2 and tomorrow is for a girl turning 1. Both adorable girls, almost makes me wish I was having a girl. But then again, I wouldn't know what to do with a girl after having boys around for so long. Girls are kinda foreign to me, even if they are at times calmer and easier than a house of boys. That's all we're getting over the weekend and next week. Boys, boys, and more boys. 4 this weekend, 4 Monday since Michael won't be home, 5 on Tuesday, then down to 3 that night after 2 get picked up. Ought to be interesting at the least.
We'll see how I survive. Jason will only because this is a week for camp, so he'll have a break from 9am-3pm every day. I get a break while I'm at work, but definetly feel sorry for J as he'll have them the most during the week. Weekend is almost broken in half between us...between both being home or each of us only having 2 at a time is determined by what time it is and what we're doing. |
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| Random stuff |
[Aug. 4th, 2007|12:05 am] |
I think I felt Wyatt move for the first time a couple days ago (Thursday). It was the first time I felt something I couldn't explain with anything else anyway. No idea if I've been feeling him and didn't know it, nor if this really was him moving. I just keep waiting for the day there's no doubt that's him I'm feeling. I figure one of these days. I'm not really even showing yet. It just looks like I'm getting fatter from food rather than baby. There's no obvious baby belly, it's all just the same as before, but bigger. Irritating as I'm at 22 weeks now (5 months) and should be showing more than this, at least in my mind I should be. Maybe I'll pop out so quick I'll wish I was still like this...or I may just be one of those women who don't really show during the whole pregnancy. The only really obvious change is that my boobs are a lot bigger than before...and they started huge. I was DDD when I started, haven't actually ordered new bras yet, though I should have in July, as I am not sure exactly where the money for them is from, and I don't want to order them without knowing. But I'm ordering an F when I do order. Hopefully it'll last a bit longer before going up even higher. What is the next one up from that anyway? I can't even remember. I swear they've gained about 5lbs each in the last 5 months. I'm actually scared to see how big I get, I'll probably fall over on my face one of these days.
Though I've had better feelings than the hips spreading, back aching, and this heartburn I've never in my life had decided to start this week. All in all, I feel good. Haven't had really any back pain for a few days, until I worked a bunch today moving books back to the cases. Basement's done except putting our stuff back, so I spent 4 hrs putting the books away. I had to quit after that, even though I left a bunch of stuff still to do. I just couldn't go anymore. And when I'm done here, it's off to the Tylenol and Tums for me.
Just glanced at my sleeping dog, she must be playing with other animals or chasing a rabbit as she's twiching all over the place. So adorable. She has been my shadow the past 5 months. If I'm home, she really doesn't leave my side, and hates it when she has to. If she had her way, I'd stay home and in the chair all day so she can stay on my lap all the time. |
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| Had the ultrasound and... |
[Jul. 27th, 2007|08:59 am] |
It's a boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wyatt Eugene changed his due date to the 7th of December technically, but the ultrasound tech said since the original date of the 11th is so close, to go ahead and keep it as our expected due date.
I was actually afraid that no one would like the name we picked, but we haven't found one person who didn't like or absolutely love the name Wyatt Eugene. Not that we would have changed what we love to suit anyone else, but it's nice to know that no one has a problem with the one we picked. It took us months to come up with that, and then another 2 months to decide that we'll keep it and not add to or change it.
The hospital gave me a cd with 9 images from the ultrasound, and one of them is actually a video, roughly 10 seconds looping for quite a few mintues. That is really cool and the only thing I wish they had done was to put more images or longer video on it. But I've got 9, and I think they do another ultrasound later in the pregnancy so maybe I'll get more then. |
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[Jun. 29th, 2007|01:49 pm] |
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Ok, so that pain in my tailbone...abcess. Small amt of puss so as it's technically an abcess because of what it is and it has puss in it, it's more the size of a large cyst. I went to a dr at my work on Friday (was there from noon -3 and got paid for 1.5 hrs due to appt). He put a numbing agent into my spine (right in the middle of the worst of the pain), which hurt like hell. Then he spoke this huge-assed needle in my spine and drew out the puss. I didn't feel it, but I saw the thing. Wait, I take that back, I felt it when the needle hit bone, but not before that. Then he numbed both sides of my spine and proceeded to stick that huge needle in again, this time moving it around inside my rear end to find more puss if any was there...none on the sides. I wanted to reach behind me and slap him silly. It hurt like hell. But after the pain went away a few hours later, I could sit without much pain. Finally able to sit on a couch or in a recliner now, but that only started yesterday I think. He put me on these antibiotics to get rid of the infection that was harbored right next to the abcess, which was causing hardened tissue. So that's going away and I have enough pills left to last the weekend. I'm just glad he fixed it and that he had so many samples I didn't have to pay for 60-some odd pills. I'm taking 2 tablets 4 times daily...yep, that's 8 pills a day, 1,000mg at a time.
Heading up to the lake in an hour or two for a weekend of softball. It's the yearly Outlaw tourney up there where a bunch of grown men play softball drunk while carrying more beer in their hands on the field. I have to work Sunday, so I'll be coming back to town Sat night while my husband and his brother's family stays through the end of Sunday. Needless to say I'm not too pleased that I have to work. Probably esp as it's partly my fault in not confirming proper weekends, though I don't want to admit that to my husband. He never once mentioned which weekend, other than "don't forget Wallowa for the 4th of July weekend" which to me means the weekend after the 4th, but maybe that's just me.
I will, coincidently with Ven, be offline for a bit. We're remodeling our basement and my husband unhooked the net at the beginning of the week. I can get online on Friday mornings only, with the rare afternoon like today. I haven't even checked my email all week due to that. It sucks, but I'm happy we're able to remodel the basement to a degree. We're putting in new carpet, walls, ceiling, and lighting. Also getting new doors for 2 bedrooms, the water heater closet, and a new door seperating a small room from the main room, turning the small room into a game room for video and board games. Hubby bought a new tv that will fit perfectly in one section and we'll get a new chair or two for that main room for seating. My bookcases will be spread through the house rather than being all in one area like they have for 5 years. New place for cookbooks within easy reach of the kitchen!!!
Well, I've got work to do and less than an hour. It'll take me 20 minutes but I want plenty of time so I'll just update later. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2007|09:22 pm] |
Ok, anyone have any good solutions for dealing with a painful tailbone? I can't hardly sit and bending is out of the question. I need to sleep on my side now anyway, but I'd like to be able to roll from one side to the other without excruciating pain. I wanted to take a walk after work today, but even that much movement hurts. My ob's nurse said it's just something that I need to deal with as it's flaring up due to the pregnancy, but I'd love to be able to do something to ease the pain without taking Tylenol or any other pill. Using pillows to brace and support my back and rear end hurt more as any pressure of any kind is too painful to think about. Today was my second day of work with this, and I don't know how much more I want to take of it.
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| Week 14 |
[Jun. 13th, 2007|08:02 am] |
Apparently I get to live with headaches for the next 6 months. This bites. Some days it's not bad if there at all. Others, like yesterday, it just won't go away. I have to say this is the worst pregnancy symptom yet. I didn't have nausea very long since I didn't have to take the prenatal vitamins for long (they made me so sick one day my dr said it was ok to not take them till the second trimester, now I can take them without a problem). I can deal with my expanding waistline (though I haven't gained one pound since the beginning). Memory loss is normal for me to a degree and it's no worse than normal so that's ok as well.So I must say the headaches are the worst and I am very tired of dealing with them.
But otherwise I'm good, and very excited that we finally have a baby on the way. My godsister filled out a survey thing on email in which one of the questions was asking her if she knew how many kids I have. She put 2 1/3, which I found funny. I find it utterly amazing to read about the changes to the baby as the weeks go by, and how fast he/she is growing and developing. By now he's around 3/5 inches long and weighes almost 2 oz. Eyes and ears are in place, neck is more defined, he can smile and open his mouth, suck his thumb, and move some (though erratically). I still can't feel the movement, but it'll come soon. I don't expect to feel it for at least 2 more weeks, but more likely it'll be 6 or so before I really feel movement. I guess the average is 20-24 wks, but my mil said she could feel my husband at 16 weeks, so I've still got time. Can't wait for that, as it still, on occasion, feels like a fantasy I'm in, or a dream, that I'm pregnant. Some days it's so hard to believe, except those days I got to see the heartbeat on the monitor and actually know for sure I wasn't dreaming. We've been trying for so long it's just so hard to believe it's real some days. Even with the changes I'm going through. |
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| My husband amazes me sometimes |
[May. 8th, 2007|08:16 pm] |
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My husband actually brought me flowers for my birthday. I didn't think he'd do anything since all three boys walked out the door without even saying Happy Birthday to me. I didn't really expect the boys to say anything, but was disappointed that Jason didn't. Though he totally made up for it by getting tulips at the flower shop next door to the clinic and bringing them to me himself. I also got tulips from my coworkers, a hen and chicks from my boss, a pink daisy from a friend, a book I've been dying to have but couldn't get due to saving for other things, and I'll get a bowling ball and shoes as soon as they get ordered and the ball gets drilled. My ball will smell like Tropical Punch, or Fruit Punch or something like that. They actually imbed the smell into the ball as they make it, so if the smell wears off, all you have to do is clean the oil off the ball and it smells again. I'm so excited. I'm finally getting to start bowling again this fall, which means as soon as I get my ball and shoes I'll go down and practice as much as I can so my average isn't 60 when league time comes around. I'll bowl as long as my dr says it's ok, and then start back up as soon as he lets me after delivery. My team already knows I'll miss some of the season, so they're finding a sub to take my place when I can't bowl. But I figure there's not much stress, the ball's only going to be 12 lbs (2 more than anything I've ever used before), and the hardest thing will be adjusting for balance each week. But I bowl for fun, and I want to get better cause it's been too long since I've really tried when I'm out there, so I'm going in knowing that I'll be off this season. At least I'll have a good handicap to help me out. |
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| Hormones going psycho |
[Apr. 27th, 2007|11:48 am] |
I find myself getting teary-eyed and sometimes even crying by such small things. Most that would always have touched me in some small way but never used to bring me close to tears. Now, a song on the radio will make me tear up. A story about Christmas Angels makes me cry. Who knows what will be next, but I'm finding myself crying so much more easily than before. Then, apologizing to my kids because I lost my temper for no logical reason makes me bawl the moment I walk out of their room.
I know what's wrong with me. Just please indulge my fantasy that this will end soon. |
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| Week 7 |
[Apr. 27th, 2007|09:55 am] |
Well, it's official. There is a jelly bean inside me with a strong hearbeat. We had the first ultrasound on Wednesday. It was very cool to see the heartbeat and what movement was there. It was hard to truly believe that this pregnancy is real and not just a figmant of my imagination coupled with a late cycle. But that all changed Wednesday when I saw my baby move with it's heart beating so strong. It's like, without that image, without any changes to the shape of my body happening yet, it's hard to really believe it's not all a big joke that someone will come to me and say, "Guess what? We were just joking, having some fun you know, you're not really pregnant and your cycle will start soon with any hope." Well, now no one can say it was just a fluke of hormones again, that my body decided to screw with my head again. Because there really is a living human being growing inside me.
Already it gets startled by loud sudden sounds and movement, it already has a heartbeat of 166 (which I was told is good), and though it's hard to see in the picture of the ultrasound I was given, it already has the beginnings of arms and legs. Almost makes me want to wear dresses and sacks around just so I don't wear something too tight around my middle and interfere with whatever room is needed to grow and thrive. I said almost. I'm not that far gone yet. Though I don't want to do anything to get in the way of development, I also want to do all that I can while I can. Bending over, walking a lot, doing chores around the house, and I'd love to sleep more. I'm so much more tired than I thought I'd be in the first trimester. I know also that I'll have to sit further from my desk soon, which means I'll move a lot as people try to get past me as they get to the copy machine and paperwork that is past me. My coworkers are excited to get to share this all with me. They all loved seeing the ultrasound Wednesday when my husband took it out front to show everyone before he took it to work to show his coworkers.
As for morning sickness, it started awhile ago, but not too bad. There were days though that the nauseas feeling never really went away. I forgot to take my prenatals last weekend, then Sunday night I took it. Everyone had been telling me to take it at night and it'll help with morning sickness. So I did. Monday I went to work, but from 4:30 am to about 7pm, it was horrible and I spent most of that time throwing up or wishing I could and just get it over with. I was given a B6 injection to help, along with a pill for nausea. I left work early and went home and crashed. Good thing it was my husband's bowling night, because he was able to keep the boys with him until later than normal actually so I could get some rest. I was told by the dr to stop the vitamins for the remainder of the first trimester and haven't been sick since that day. I did learn though that the reason it's ok for me to stop them and not give myself and the baby the extra nutrients, is because the critical time for folic acid and the major vitamins is the first 6 weeks, and I'm past that now. But they did say when it gets closer to 12 weeks and I feel better, to take 2 Flintstone's chewables. They have about the same vitamins and in the same doses as the prenatals, minus the folic acid. So I feel ok about stopping those for now. |
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