I'm still having to count the weeks to find out how pregnant I am. Went to publix over the 4th of July weekend and got asked how far along I was. I said, "I have no idea!? 6 months?!?" The girl who was probably 12 by my calculations was confused then I explained, "when you have more than one, it doesn't matter anymore" LOL So now I just figured out I'm 26 weeks. This means 14 more loooooong weeks to go. I am getting very excited about the birth experience. I can't wait to know what it feels like to be in control of the situation rather than having a doctor or nurse tell me what to do and give me an IV "just because that's what they need to do." Now that natural med-free birth at a birth center is what I am going to be doing(no turning back now) I'm finding myself realizing how I wished things were different with S' birth. Not to say it wasn't wonderful! IT WAS! And from what the nurses said, my body did not react the way that most other women's bodies react to the epidural, sleepy, groggy or just basically not all there to give birth; In fact I was joking with the nurses and the midwife for most of the time and they were so surprised I wasn't knocked out or tired and how I was able to handle the baby after. I'm thankful for that. I've said it a million times, but I believe I got lucky, in that I did not have to have a c-section. Its kinda sad to say that I'm lucky I didn't have to have one. An unnecessary one that is. Nothing against the procedure, but when a doctor just doesn't want to allow birth to naturally happen, I find that to be a problem.
Now I will get off my soap box and continue to say how excited I am about this, I want to know how far I can take my body, how long its going to take, how much pain is involved and what amazing and colorful language will come out of my mouth as each contraction tried to rip me apart. I think this needs to be recorded for future reference!
In regards to a baby shower, my mother thinks I should be in charge of it! I told her you will be the worse person to use as a surprise party planner. I suppose it would be nice to have a baby shower soon, although I'm still debating whether to make it a before baby shower or an after "announce the sex" shower. I think one of the main reasons for not finding out the sex of the baby until the day is basically to keep people from buying crap I dont need like clothes and ugly gender specific toys. I'm so against pink carseats and blue swing sets. :-|
I don't think we will be setting up a nursery anytime soon. S says she wants the baby to sleep in the room with her but I'm sure once it cries she will have a fit. Although dogs bark and howl for a long time in the middle of the night and it does not phase her. I wish I could sleep like that, I barely get 4 hours a night since I keep waking up at 4am and I'm not able to go back to sleep! In other words, no nursery, maybe just a transfer of rooms and probably giving S the queen size bed and the baby the twin eventually. That's the lazy persons plan.
Alright back to work
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
The joys of a 3 year old
S is a talker. She talks non stop. This is something that I figured would happen since she said her first words at 8 months and she used them correctly. She had a very good vocabulary by the time she was 12 months. That said, I never thought it would be as hilarious, adorable and annoying as it is now. The annoying part is the ALL DAY talking and asking WHY? WHY? WHY? But sometimes I amuse myself by answering every question just to see who gets tired first. I will always lose.
With the baby on the way she is always talking about the baby and asking baby questions. I showed her the anatomy of a pregnant woman so she could visually see whats going on inside and she understood. She knows the baby is "upside down" and thinks its hilarious. Last night after her bath, she was jumping on the bed as she always does and she made a comment how she wants the baby to come out already. I explained how with her it was a long time too and I had to wait for her to be fully done before coming out. And her response was "For me to come out of your VAGINA?" "Yes honey, you had to be fully done before coming out of my vagina" Now, this makes me laugh and I like that she uses that word b/c frankly its hilarious and correct. On the way home that night, which is what I call quite time, so she can wind down and go to sleep so I can get my things done for work the next day, she decided it was time to talk and talk and talk and talk. The conversation was about why this and why that same as always. I wish I could remember what she said b/c I thought to myself, I have to write this down!!! This morning though she went on to say that she wants to move my parents house closer to our house, mind you they live about 3 miles away but whatever. I said well we can't move a house, its just too heavy; she said "well lets make it small" and just can't argue with that. Then she said how she wants to be small like the baby so she can come out again, "I want to have little baby feet and be really little so I can be in your belly and kick like the baby and I want to come out again, I want to do that YESTERDAY" Ok now, dont get too loud with me lol. She wanted to float and be upside down like the baby is now and she wants to be little so she can drink mommy milk. I dont know where she learns all this but its pretty funny.
Aside from asking so much about the baby, cuddling with my belly and talking and kissing it constantly, she is being pretty good and patient about it. I have a feeling there will be no jealousy with them since she is so caring and loving. I love my crazy baby!
With the baby on the way she is always talking about the baby and asking baby questions. I showed her the anatomy of a pregnant woman so she could visually see whats going on inside and she understood. She knows the baby is "upside down" and thinks its hilarious. Last night after her bath, she was jumping on the bed as she always does and she made a comment how she wants the baby to come out already. I explained how with her it was a long time too and I had to wait for her to be fully done before coming out. And her response was "For me to come out of your VAGINA?" "Yes honey, you had to be fully done before coming out of my vagina" Now, this makes me laugh and I like that she uses that word b/c frankly its hilarious and correct. On the way home that night, which is what I call quite time, so she can wind down and go to sleep so I can get my things done for work the next day, she decided it was time to talk and talk and talk and talk. The conversation was about why this and why that same as always. I wish I could remember what she said b/c I thought to myself, I have to write this down!!! This morning though she went on to say that she wants to move my parents house closer to our house, mind you they live about 3 miles away but whatever. I said well we can't move a house, its just too heavy; she said "well lets make it small" and just can't argue with that. Then she said how she wants to be small like the baby so she can come out again, "I want to have little baby feet and be really little so I can be in your belly and kick like the baby and I want to come out again, I want to do that YESTERDAY" Ok now, dont get too loud with me lol. She wanted to float and be upside down like the baby is now and she wants to be little so she can drink mommy milk. I dont know where she learns all this but its pretty funny.
Aside from asking so much about the baby, cuddling with my belly and talking and kissing it constantly, she is being pretty good and patient about it. I have a feeling there will be no jealousy with them since she is so caring and loving. I love my crazy baby!
Monday, June 27, 2011
25 Weeks!
I'm 25 weeks today, and I only know that because people keep asking me how far along I am or when I'm due and I dont have a concrete answer for them. So I have now resorted to counting the weeks on monday so I know where I am. This means I have 15 weeks to go and I remember how horrible the first 15 weeks were but they are now gone which gives me a little hope this will go by fast. A lot has happened in the last 6 weeks since I've been on here...S started swimming classes last week and she loooooves it. Two classes down and she is mastering holding her breath like a champ and is extremely eager to get into the water. She got a bike from her grandparents and she's being a little weird about it since she believes the bike should do all the pedaling and not her. She also got a cool bedroom set from her grandparents and she loves that...especially her nightlight name "birdie bird" (by her).
As for Thing 2, everything is progressing well. Went to get an ultrasound done by a friend and S was there and loving watching the baby move. She re-enacted all the moves for Tio and Titi and again for me and daddy. She loves to hear the heartbeat and still asks to hear it once in a while. I should've recorded it, maybe during my next appt. Speaking of which, my next appt is going to be the glucose test. This is not going to be an ordinary test, but rather done with healthy foods and not that nasty orange glucola. As far as kicking is concerned, this child is insane. Always active which I'm thankful for and its nice to know that it already has a set schedule for its acrobatics. I'm much more calm now that I know this child is as healthy as it can possibly show on the ultrasound, no physical abnormalities to account for. Its much more important to know that than the sex of the baby. I'm noticing that a lot of friends that found out they were pregnant after me are choosing to have the sex be a surprise. I'm bringing them into the dark side!
Not much else is going on, other than still some nausea here and there. I have finally started to have some significant weight gain which is exciting...so far, if the scale I'm using is right, I'm only 25lbs away from what I was when S was born. Maybe this time I can hit a really high weight hehe.
I believe that is all for right now!
As for Thing 2, everything is progressing well. Went to get an ultrasound done by a friend and S was there and loving watching the baby move. She re-enacted all the moves for Tio and Titi and again for me and daddy. She loves to hear the heartbeat and still asks to hear it once in a while. I should've recorded it, maybe during my next appt. Speaking of which, my next appt is going to be the glucose test. This is not going to be an ordinary test, but rather done with healthy foods and not that nasty orange glucola. As far as kicking is concerned, this child is insane. Always active which I'm thankful for and its nice to know that it already has a set schedule for its acrobatics. I'm much more calm now that I know this child is as healthy as it can possibly show on the ultrasound, no physical abnormalities to account for. Its much more important to know that than the sex of the baby. I'm noticing that a lot of friends that found out they were pregnant after me are choosing to have the sex be a surprise. I'm bringing them into the dark side!
Not much else is going on, other than still some nausea here and there. I have finally started to have some significant weight gain which is exciting...so far, if the scale I'm using is right, I'm only 25lbs away from what I was when S was born. Maybe this time I can hit a really high weight hehe.
I believe that is all for right now!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
19 weeks!
Which means next week I'll be "halfway" there which means that's another 5 months to go UGH! I have been feeling much better lately. Still get nauseous at random times and I'm still constantly worried about surprise vomiting happening but at least I know I'm not gonna die if I vomit. Except for that one time that I literally choked and couldn't breathe lol. Oh the joys of pregnancy. S is being so sweet with the belly...she'll hug and kiss it and even named the baby Butter. She thinks its hilarious! She's usually write about a lot of things, the Magic winning of losing a game, or other such random things that I ask her about so I'm going with her gut on this one and saying this baby will probably be a girl. On the ultrasound picture we have up on the fridge, the giant head just makes it look like a boy and I have a feeling it might be a boy but who knows. Its exciting not to find out! I need to start thinking about birthing classes which I think are included with my care at the birthing center; I need to learn to make myself relaxed and to have a good, happy, funny and positive birth. I got the funny part down I think, it will be jokes galore! There is a lot more activity going down in my uterus which is kinda cute. Its not as crazy as S, who was going crazy at 4am which was not fun!
Finally got to go to the gym today and I felt good after. Did some cardio, abs and push ups which was at a very low impact level and baby did not mind. This has to be something I do all the time to make sure I keep my body ready for birth. Next update should be for my 20 week appt. GOOD DAY!
Finally got to go to the gym today and I felt good after. Did some cardio, abs and push ups which was at a very low impact level and baby did not mind. This has to be something I do all the time to make sure I keep my body ready for birth. Next update should be for my 20 week appt. GOOD DAY!
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
18 Weeks and Ultrasound
Today I went for my ultrasound, something that I really wished someone other than the ultrasound tech was there with me for. I don't know if its reading too much into horrible things that can go wrong with the baby or the fact that I've been sick for almost 3 weeks or something else, but I'm scared that something could be wrong with this baby. I made it through ok not being able to look once in a while when she went down to the legs so that I didn't find out the sex. The heartbeat was 126 which is sooo low compared to S. Another reason why this might be a boy UGH! She did have a hard time trying to get good measurements of the baby's head b/c it was being stubborn. I think she finally got a good one that was at the right place for the right measurements. I dont know how I'm goign to make it this week without knowing if everything is ok or not but I pray and hope that everything is. I do need to call my midwife about this throat pain I've had b/c its just getting very uncomfortable.
Friday, May 6, 2011
My poor baby
So last night was one sleepless night with S! She woke up around 230am crying which basically meant, regardless of the reason, that I was going to be up from then on. She kept saying her tummy hurt and I figured she just had to poo, but when she kept complaining she wanted to go to the bathroom and so she threw up. Now I can deal with a lot of gross things, and I mean A LOT! But when it deals with saliva or anything coming out of the mouth I suck! I tried to be a sweet as possible to her without hurling myself and I did it! God gave me some sort of strength or whatever it was that I'm been ok with the whole throwing up thing, as long as I cover my ears and dont hear it happening LOL. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep so I couldn't go to work in the morning, she fell asleep around 530ish and woke up at 8 or 9. No longer sick, I ignored her and she fell asleep again until around 11am. I on the other hand wasn't so lucky. I'm exhausted and I feel like I haven't slept in days, which is probably accurate. I have to keep watching her make sure she makes it to the designated puke points. I'm staying at my parents house tonight since I know that they will help me in the morning with her and maybe I can get much needed rest. She hasn't eaten much but has thrown up the little that she has. I hate this, I dont know how long its going to last and I can't do much of anything to make her feel better. Well time to try and sleep.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
17 Weeks!
Well I'm making it further and further still feeling sick everyday. That just seems like opposing statements lol. I have a hard time sleeping through the night and for some reason keep waking up at the same horrible times, either 630am which is ok or 430am which is horrible since most times I cannot go back to sleep until 730ish which means I would get barely any sleep. Thus making my headaches worse. The nausea is still there, not at a lesser level, but at a steady one which gets worse at certain unpredictable times. I think I'm up to 130lb now which is my pre-pregnancy weight so basically I haven't gained anything! This baby also has a kicking timer and 11pm is the time to go INSANE! I think S is still the only one that has felt the baby kick.
This week was teacher appreciation week and we got them all a cool basket and some school supplies. Also its mothers day buying frenzy week so I finally got that done today! Bought my mom a family tree frame and had it engraved with our family name. She'll love that! I think I want peace and quite for mothers day, something I surely wont get.
Tomorrow is Friday! Which makes me oh so happy, maybe we can hit the beach or something like that. Who knows!
I've been thinking a lot about this whole natural birth versus hospital birth and the more I learn the more I'm happy with my decision to do it at a birth center. I've watched so many documentaries about the "business" of birth and how its suck a marketed thing where it should actually be just a natural process that a woman goes through. How the ceserean rates are increasing and unless you put your foot down and arent easily persuaded in a vulnerable time then you will be induced, given an epidural and possible need to have a c-section. I feel lucky, I did not want to be induced or have an epidural, but I was induced thinking that was what needed to happen and was made to feel guilty or bad about the pain that "i didn't not have to go through" which is why I opted for the epidural. I'm not saying I probably wont ask for it if not beg for it this time around but I have to make myself know that I am strong enough to work through the pain and that in reality the pain I experienced was not that bad when I asked for the epidural with S. I know that I will have the midwives with me to support me and also my husband and mom. But alas I think my body is slowing down and ready to give up for tonight. No new updates on the baby, only that I have my ultrasound next wed. I have to make sure I remind the tech that we do not want to know the sex. Then once we have that done, then we wait a week to make sure everything is healthy. I hope and pray that it is!
Good night!
This week was teacher appreciation week and we got them all a cool basket and some school supplies. Also its mothers day buying frenzy week so I finally got that done today! Bought my mom a family tree frame and had it engraved with our family name. She'll love that! I think I want peace and quite for mothers day, something I surely wont get.
Tomorrow is Friday! Which makes me oh so happy, maybe we can hit the beach or something like that. Who knows!
I've been thinking a lot about this whole natural birth versus hospital birth and the more I learn the more I'm happy with my decision to do it at a birth center. I've watched so many documentaries about the "business" of birth and how its suck a marketed thing where it should actually be just a natural process that a woman goes through. How the ceserean rates are increasing and unless you put your foot down and arent easily persuaded in a vulnerable time then you will be induced, given an epidural and possible need to have a c-section. I feel lucky, I did not want to be induced or have an epidural, but I was induced thinking that was what needed to happen and was made to feel guilty or bad about the pain that "i didn't not have to go through" which is why I opted for the epidural. I'm not saying I probably wont ask for it if not beg for it this time around but I have to make myself know that I am strong enough to work through the pain and that in reality the pain I experienced was not that bad when I asked for the epidural with S. I know that I will have the midwives with me to support me and also my husband and mom. But alas I think my body is slowing down and ready to give up for tonight. No new updates on the baby, only that I have my ultrasound next wed. I have to make sure I remind the tech that we do not want to know the sex. Then once we have that done, then we wait a week to make sure everything is healthy. I hope and pray that it is!
Good night!
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