tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36975686519141257752024-02-20T05:14:04.253-08:00Whisper in the SnowcloudsSnowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-52121045165454250982013-09-11T11:41:00.003-07:002013-09-11T11:41:30.169-07:00I'm back... :-)<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I've decided to start blogging again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last 18 months, I found it too challenging to find time to post and stay home with my son (for the first year) and then working and spending time with the baby and husband.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what we've been up to! Well we bought a house, sold our old townhouse, and were temporarily homeless for 2 weeks in between house closing dates last September. Boy, am I glad that we decided to move before our 5 year plan since staging a house with a toddler would be impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baby boy, Kaleb, is now 18 months and has finally decided to join the land of the walking. It took him until the week before his 18 month birthday. He liked being carries around apparently:-) He talks a lot though he has a good vocabulary of about 75 words at 18 months and every day he's adding 2-3 words and remembers them in the correct context the next day. Most words are French, but lately he's started adding a ton of English to it too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The latest news is that we're expecting Baby #2 in late April 2014. This is super exciting news to us and we were very surprised since we had just gotten back on the TTC train and got pregnant on the first go. My first u/s to "date" the pregnancy is next Monday and I cannot wait. Even though I'm sick as a dog I still need that u/s to confirm that this isn't another missed m/c. Nausea decided to wait until the end of week 6 to appear, but it appeared violently and I don't have the luxury of lying on the couch for weeks on end anymore. I'm a walking zombie and get nothing done at work because I'm so tired that I can't concentrate. I cannot wait for the 2nd trimester energy to come around; otherwise, the baby will arrive with nothing done except a painted room to welcome him or her (I think it's a her this time around).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This pregnancy is one of the big reasons I decided to start this up again because I've been referring to my posts from my last pregnancy to compare symptoms and stuff like that. It's been helpful and I kind of wish I had stuck it out and written through K's first year so I could remember exactly when stuff happened instead of vaguely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, see you soon hopefully:-)</span>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-15242488496346112712012-03-26T17:09:00.000-07:002012-03-26T17:09:01.412-07:00Teas, teas, teas<br />
Recently, I had the amazing opportunity to sample some great teas to review them! I got the teas right before Kaleb was born so it's taken me a little time to write about the yummy teas, but I'm finally doing it now.<br />
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<a href="http://www.steepedtea.com/" target="_blank">Steeped Tea</a> is a company that works by having consultants hold parties at your house. As the host, you get a percentage of the sales of the day. I was introduced to Steeped Tea when one of my friends decided to hold a Steeped Tea party and I got to sample some of their teas. <br />
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I have to say that I was pretty impressed when I looked at their <a href="http://www.steepedtea.com/2012catalogue/index.html" target="_blank">catalogue</a>. They have so many different kinds of teas that you can't find anywhere else. The teas are all loose leaf teas, but they do sell things like reusable tea bells or tea bags. <br />
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I tried the 5 different teas that Steeped Tea sent to me and I also wanted to tell you about the 2 teas that I bought at the party. <br />
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Let's start with "Toffee Crunch". This tea is phenomenal! Both Dre and I love this tea and are going to be life-long drinkers of this one. This tea smells amazing and what's even better is that it tastes exactly like it smells. I'm sure you know that often teas smell better than they taste. This is a rooibos tea so it happens to be naturally decaffeinated which is great for me since I'm breastfeeding Kaleb and I can't have too much caffeine. I give this tea 5 thumbs up. Go buy it...you'll love it!<br />
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Next up is "Lady Layla's Whole Fruit Tea". It's really good. This tea is caffeine free as it's fruit tea. It's taste reminds me of summer berries. You can make this tea as an ice tea and I imagine it's phenomenal when you drink it that way. Since it's still cold over here, I haven't tried it cold, but I really look forward to trying it this summer when it's nice and hot outside. <br />
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Then I tried "Peppy Peppermint". This tea is good. It's good peppermint tea. Drinking a cup of this tea makes me feel energized and fresh. Peppermint is one of those flavors that is great all the time and makes you feel refreshed when you drink it. <br />
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Next came a classic, "Earl Gray de la Creme". This tea is a very good earl gray. I really enjoyed this one. It's very good when you want that classical tea taste...especially on a cold day. I loved it! I can't wait to have it again.<br />
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Then we tried the "Breakfast Muffin". This tea smells so good before it's brewed and after it's brewed. I didn't think it tasted as good as it smelled though. It did taste good, but the smell was just better than the taste. I think I'll have to try this tea a few more times to really appreciate all the flavors that are in it. <br />
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Next is "Cherry Rose Sansha". This tea was real surprise. When I read the ingredients, I really didn't want to try this tea because I didn't think I'd like it. Well, surprise, surprise...I really liked this tea. It has nice light floral tones and is a perfect afternoon tea. <br />
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Last tea is "Caramel Comfort". I thought I would love this tea. Why not? It's made with caramel! Well, I really didn't like this one. I think it tastes like eating cigarettes or something like that. Dre thinks I'm crazy though and thought this tea was great so it's probably just me that didn't like this one.<br />
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I also got the opportunity to try their "Red Pepper Jelly". I have nothing to compare this jelly to though as I've never had Red Pepper Jelly. I was pleasantly surprised when I talked myself into trying it though. I tried it with some crackers, but I imagine that it would be amazing served on top of cheese like melted Brie. <br />
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Overall, I found the Steeped Tea teas to be phenomenal and of great quality. I can't wait to buy some more and try some of their other flavors! <br />
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Disclaimer: Steeped Tea provided me with 6 flavors of tea and the Red Pepper Jelly at no cost to me.Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-69917375421854995792012-03-10T19:41:00.000-08:002012-03-10T19:41:28.380-08:0041 WeeksYou thought I disappeared didn't you?<br />
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The truth is that between feeding Kaleb and trying to get simple stuff like emails answered I just don't have any time to sit down and take 30 minutes to hammer out a post. So sad!<br />
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Anyways, here is my 41 week picture. This was taken a couple of hours before we left for the hospital to have Kaleb and the day before he was born. I was huge! Whenever you see these pics, you realize how much weight gain was going on and it's kind of crazy to see how much I've lost now. <br />
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My doctor wanted to induce me when I hit 41 weeks, but Dre and I told her Biophysical Profile. Fancy term for another NST test and an ultrasound. Dre decided to come to the ultrasound with me since they might have kept me if the results showed that Kaleb was not doing well.<br />
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The last ultrasound I've had was at 18 weeks so I was looking forward to seeing how different this one would be. It definitely was different. For one, the baby is so big when he gets to full term that to see everything they have to look at him in sections. The ultrasound person started the ultrasound after confirming that we were just there to check on the baby's progress and well-being. Right away she told me I had tons of amniotic fluid. She went on about this for a while so I guess I really did have lots. She told me that usually by now she can't get good shots of things like his face because most of the amniotic fluid is gone, but because I had so much she was able to give us a picture of baby Kaleb's face. Exciting! She checked everything and measured things like his head and stomach. Then at the end she tells us, "I estimate the baby's size to be 4.8 kg." We were like oh that not too bad...then we made the conversion to lbs and I freaked the crap out. That's 10.5 lbs people! Dre and I then spent the next 2 days convincing ourselves that weight estimates on ultrasounds are very often wrong and that the baby would be a least 3 lbs less than that.<br />
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Well as it turns out that ultrasound was not too wrong! I had a 10 lbs 2 oz baby!<br />
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On the day, that I went into labour I weighed 193.4 lbs. That is a total pregnancy weight gain of 40 lbs. Yes, that is right...I managed to gain massive amounts of weight in the last 1.5 weeks. Every other day I would step on the scale and it would be up another couple of lbs. It was craziness! <br />
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That's what was going on while we were waiting for our little baby boy to make an appearance. Up next...the birth story. I'm still working on it, but I hope to post it in the next day or 2. Then I'll post pictures of our little man because he's sooooo cute!Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-48217513881419531062012-02-28T00:33:00.001-08:002012-02-28T00:33:51.868-08:00UpdateSince I'm up all night now, I might as well update. But I'm warning you guys that I'm typing one-handed on my phone so no pics and there might be mistakes because of the lovely autocorrect feature. <br />
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Baby Kaleb Jacques was born last Monday at 9:53AM weighing 10.2 lbs, and measuring 22.25 inches by c-section. This is one big baby. A fact that every single nurse and doctor in the hospital pointed out to us. I'll type a proper birth story very, very soon. I promise!<br />
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For now, I'll just catch you up on a little of our lives. Dre is at home with me. He was supposed to go back to work next week, but he managed to get an extra week. My mom is also coming to help out next week so that will be nice. I need lots of help since I had a c-section and am supposed to take it slow. <br />
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I am breastfeeding, but that is the biggest challenge ever. Especially when you have a baby that clearly prefers one side over the other. Kaleb also was born with a tongue-tie and has a short tongue. The tongue-tie thing was easily fixed, but the short tongue is what makes his latch so difficult and we can't fix that apart from just wait till he hats bigger. <br />
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Also, this baby loves to suck even when he's not hungry. We tried a pacifier on him but he just spits that put. Also we think that the pacifier might be confusing to him as he's still learning to suck properly. So I'm taking it one day at the time and concentrating on getting the latch correctly every time. <br />
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All of this feeding though means that I do that ALL the time and don't have time make a proper post. <br />
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Alright, I'll update soon again!Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-21908414058949914332012-02-14T16:50:00.000-08:002012-02-14T16:50:10.586-08:00Week 40<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Well I’m over my due date by 4 days now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Blah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get texts, emails, and
Facebook messages from a hoard of people every day asking me how I feel and if
the baby has come yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty sure
that I’d let most people know if the baby had decided to make an
appearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I’m not really sure
what to say about how I feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
huge!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My skin is stretched to the max
and this baby seems to still be gaining weight so I don’t feel great, but I
also don’t feel awful either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I see the doctor on Thursday and she’ll most likely want to induce me
right away since the weekend will be coming and next Monday is Family Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had my non-stress test (NST) on Monday and
everything looked good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby was moving
well, had a good heart rate, and showed no sign of stress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resident who came to review my results
with me told me that since I’m overdue I can look forward to these every 3 days
until I get induced or have the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not too excited about that since I have to do the NSTs at the hospital and they
have ridiculous parking rates over there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">My mom is coming tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really didn’t want her around before the
baby comes, but she has some business stuff she has to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is that whenever she comes down
she manages to stay at my house or friend’s houses for 1-2 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only take about 1-2 days before she
gets on my nerves and I want to send her back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She loves visiting though and so she’s usually here way too long and we
end up fighting because she gets on my nerves or disrupts Dre and I’s
schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyways, I’m picking her up at
the bus station tomorrow afternoon if I haven’t gone into labour by then.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m getting tired of drinking
Raspberry Leaf Tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t taste
bad, but it just hasn’t done anything yet and it gets really old to drink the
same tea 1-2 every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also still
taking Evening Primrose Oil, but I think I’ll cut back to 1 or 2 a day because
those pills are seriously giving me the runs and that’s not cool!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re the perfect cure to
constipation!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve gotten every
suggestion under the sun to “naturally” start my labour, but I personally don’t
think any of them work unless your body is ready or was going to go into labour
anyways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weirdest ones I’ve had
suggested are to eat lots of popcorn and to drink castor oil with orange
juice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmmm, yes I totally want to drink
an oil that’s going to give me the runs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So needless to say, I’ve tried most of the sane ones like walking a lot
and all that, but I’m going to stay far, far away from the crazy ones like
castor oil.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I lost my To-Do list so I consider it
all done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, I have a ton of
small things to do every day, but nothing major is left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just need to do stuff like go consign the
baby clothes I’m not keeping, harass my insurance company into paying the
expenses they’re supposed to cover for Dre, send in my claims for the massage
therapy and chiropractor expenses of the past few months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">We’re done the baby room!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dre and I are in the process of buying the letters to spell the baby’s
name and then I’ll paint them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael’s
only lets you use one coupon per day, but you can print as many as you want so
every time I go by the store I pick up another letter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I need to figure out how to paint MDF
wood since that’s all they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t
plan on hanging the baby’s name until he’s born since we’re not telling anyone
what the name is.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Here’s my pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just keep getting bigger…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">A disclaimer…my weight is leaping up every few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean in the past 2 days my scale tells me I
gained 5 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is that even
possible?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to eat more
Valentine Day Hershey’s Chocolates with cherry filling to make myself feel
better</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> My average weight this week is 186.0
lbs which is a gain of 2.5 lbs since last week. This makes my total weight gain
for this pregnancy exactly 33 lbs. That’s the most weight I’ve gained in one
single week this pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty
sure it’s going to be even worse for this week (Week 41) too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m still tired and achy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also
am having a really hard time doing things like putting on my winter boots and
picking stuff off the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the
time if it falls on the floor, I just want to leave it there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So last week I mentioned that I found a
diaper bag, but since it’s impossible to find in Canada I’ve just decided to
ignore the fact that I don’t have a diaper bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">No contractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
Braxton-Hicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Baby is still the size of a watermelon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although with all the weight he’s gained he’s
probably a really big watermelon by now!</span></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-66879368286770720222012-02-12T20:06:00.001-08:002012-02-12T20:06:57.682-08:00Due DatesWell, my Friday due date has come and gone and I'm still pregnant!<br />
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Dre is really cute. He keeps telling the baby where the exit is and that he has to push the exit button or asking him when he'll show up. <br />
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I've tried all the old wives tales stuff. Well most of them. There are still a few that I haven't tried. I'd like to say that they're doing something, but so far nada! <br />
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I don't get to see my doctor until Thursday and by then I'll be a week overdue. Instead of seeing me tomorrow which she should be doing since she last saw me last Monday, she's sending me to L&D to get "monitored" to make sure everything is going well. Blah! I'm not really looking forward to that at all. It's not hard, but I do have to drive to the hospital and find parking around it (and walk) or pay for $13 parking just to have a 30 minute monitoring. I kind of feel like my new doctor is just passing the buck. <br />
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Anyways, I hope that baby boy decides to show up really soon since I don't want to be induced. Of course if I end up being induced, it won't be the end of the world, but I want to avoid it if I can. <br />
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40 week update tomorrow unless baby boy decides to make an appearance...Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-49190514240151549942012-02-08T14:11:00.000-08:002012-02-08T16:15:36.112-08:00Week 39<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I can’t believe that I’m so close to
my due date!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due date is officially
Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, ultrasound techs and
my doctor have managed to give me 4 different due dates which include the 9<sup>th</sup>,
10<sup>th</sup>, 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So who knows if the 10<sup>th</sup> is really
accurate as my due date, but that’s what we’ll go with.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I saw my new doctor last Thursday and
then again this Monday since she couldn’t see anyone this Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still not crazy about this doctor because
she likes to just give general information instead of concrete number
information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to sit there and
ask for everything…it’s very frustrating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At both appointments, she did an internal exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man that was the worst experience of my
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hear it’s worse when your doctor
has small hands and this one does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyways, the so not fun experience revealed that I’m barely a fingertip
dilated (which is not even 1 cm) and pretty much not effaced at all since she
said my cervix was still very high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
depressing to hear this when you’re at 39 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, wonderful new doctor was like I’ll see
you next Thursday (meaning the 16<sup>th</sup>) and you’ll be almost at your
due date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ummmmm, no my due date is this
Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do these doctors not bother to
read the charts or something?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she
starts having a discussion with herself about what to do because obviously if I
go over my EDD then she should be seeing me 2x a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her solution is to send me for a non-stress
test (NST) at the hospital next Monday if the baby hasn’t shown up by then to
make sure everything is going well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Okayyyyyyyyyyyyy…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then she
tells me that if I make it to our next appointment on the 16<sup>th</sup> that
we’ll discuss and most likely schedule an induction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OH GOODY!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is just what I’d like to look forward to right now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">BTW, I did start drinking Red
Raspberry Tea Leaf and taking Evening Primrose Oil every day and so far that
really hasn’t done anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still
taking the stuff though because you never know if it’s helping stuff along.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">The To Do list is getting shorter,
but it just seems like there’s always something new that I need to do and it’s
daunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just want someone else to
get everything done for me so I can sit down and say, “Everything has been done
and is ready for the baby.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any
volunteers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Booh!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Every time I think I’m done cleaning
baby stuff, I turn around and there’s another pile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ughhh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not even going to try to clean the toys any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom can clean all of those when she comes
to visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a little overwhelmed and I
don’t really want to deal with them at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus I doubt that baby boy is going to care
if he had toys to play with in the first few weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">In the baby’s room, Dre and I put up
all the wall decals this weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
Dre needs to install the double curtain rod so I can add sheer curtains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to buy a garbage can, lamp, and really
overpriced letters to spell baby boy’s name for the room and then I’ll
officially be done!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we’re almost
done!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s my goal to do most of this
this weekend. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">We haven’t seen any mice at all in 2
weeks so I think that we managed to get rid of all of them in a couple of
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre did a good job of taking care
of that!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Here is this week’s picture!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to a lot of people, I’ve majorly dropped
in the last 2 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too bad that
doesn’t mean that the baby decides to make an appearance now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I still think this is going to be a big baby because my weight gain in
the past 2-3 weeks has been really high and I’m not eating any more than I was
before or any differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My average
weight this week is 183.5 lbs which is a gain of 1.3 lbs since last week. This
makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy exactly 30.5 lbs. With the way
that my weight has been this week, I think I’ll reach the 35 lbs weight gain
easily if I go over my EDD by a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m tired of talking about acid reflux, indigestion, and heartburn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all suck!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>End of story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I still get tired easily and I find that I sleep a lot more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I go to bed with Dre at around 10:30PM and
get up to pee around 4-7 times a night now and sleep until 9:00AM every
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes me a while to do
everything because I have to do them around this huge belly and getting up off
the couch or the floor is a workout, but I do managed to slowly get some stuff
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did I mention that I finally found
a diaper bag?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I did and it’s not
the Coach or Jujube bags I wanted which cost an arm and a leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a really nice, affordable Carter bag,
but it’s impossible to get in Canada. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Booh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">BHs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t get very many
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I was getting so many
before because my job was stressing me out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since I’ve stopped working, I don’t really get more than a couple a
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m really looking forward to having a baby and having everything
organized in my house!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what my
kitchen looked like last week when I decided to organize my cupboards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre was so impressed</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I ran out of steam in my last cupboard so I left everything out and
directed while Dre put it all back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
never do this type of organizing because I find it boring, but so far I’ve done
the fridge, freezers (with Dre), and the cupboards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might even do the front closet which is
stuffed full of coats and shoes we never use.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Baby is still the size of a watermelon.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows what he weighs now, but I
think he’s well around the 7-8 lb mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If he comes out weighing 6 lbs, I’ll be very shocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">We’re waiting for you baby boy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People want to know what we named you and
honestly I’m getting tired of not telling.</span></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-80396601227697943982012-01-30T20:06:00.000-08:002012-01-30T20:06:22.224-08:00Week 38<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">This past week Dre and I have been
hammering away at the To Do List.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
pretty sure that I’ll be done by the end of this week which means that I’ll
officially be trying to get this baby here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How? You ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I’ll certainly
be trying to walk as much as possible to try to get some progress going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My doctor is supposed to check to see if I’m
dilated or effaced at my appointment this Thursday so that will give me an idea
of where I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other things which might
work are good old-fashioned sex, red raspberry leaf tea, or evening primrose
oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They might not work, but on the
other hand they might do the trick!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’ve finished washing all the baby
clothes I plan to wash for right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, I just need to clean all the toys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I got a lot of second-hand toys, but I think that I should probably wash
all the new ones too since babies put everything in their mouths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby boy’s bedroom is almost done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only things I have left to do is buy a
lamp, double curtain rod, and sheer curtains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s too bright in the baby’s room during the day so I need something to
cut the light, but at the same time not remove all of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other thing is that Dre and I need to
hang the wall decals and get some letters to spell baby’s name over the
crib.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we’re almost done!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s my goal to do most of this this weekend
so I can finally post pictures of a completed nursery.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">In other news, Dre figured out that
we have mice in the house last weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What on earth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my amazing
husband took apart the storage area where they’ve been residing and cleaned and
stored everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t have to do a
single thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to an Epicure party
and spent way too much money while he was doing this and then went to my
Pre-natal Aquafit class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt bad that
I didn’t help at all, but just doing those two things made me super tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get tired walking across the room
lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyways, Dre set up traps and
put some poison cubes out that are supposed to dehydrate the mice so we don’t
have rotting mice in our walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
caught 5 in the first 2 or 3 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
seem to have caught them all though because we haven’t heard, caught, or seen
any in the past 4-5 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Victory for
us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m finally done work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last Wednesday at 4 PM, I officially handed
it all to my replacement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have
much hope that she won’t mess some of the stuff up, but hopefully she’ll pick
up stuff faster when she’s on her own than when I was training her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is officially not my problem anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I did meet the new doctor this week
and let’s just say that I’m reserving judgment until later because I wasn’t overly
impressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll update after my Thursday
appointment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I think Dre and I have finally
settled on a name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When baby boy arrives, we’ll be announcing
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was going to post on here, but I
do have some family members and friends who read this blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Everyone keeps telling me that I’ve dropped and I guess they’re right
because my belly looks lower than it did last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In every picture, I think that I can’t
possibly get any bigger, but every week the belly seems to get bigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is gonna be a big baby if he keeps
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">My average weight this week is 182.2 lbs which is a gain of 1.3 lbs
since last week. This makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy exactly 29.2
lbs. I had this sudden, dramatic weight gain around Thursday of last week and
my weight shot up a couple of pounds and has stayed there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so weird when that happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like the baby has a sudden growth spurt
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">To fight the heartburn, acid reflux, and indigestion, I now take Zantac
twice a day and drink lots and lots of Ginger Ale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the only things that seem to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that after I have the baby I’m not
dependent on Zantac to avoid indigestion and heartburn since I take it so often
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I still have a lot of fatigue, but I’m focusing on getting a few things
done every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That way at the end of
the week, I can see that I’ve made some progress in getting everything ready
without being too overwhelmed that I don’t have to energy to do it all in a
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m starting to get a lot more BHs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes, I can almost start timing them because I get so many in an
hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re mostly not painful
although I’ve a few slightly more painful ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m really looking forward to having everything ready for the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m glad I decided to stop work earlier than
I had originally planned otherwise I would have a ton of stuff left to do in
the next 2 weeks.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Baby is the size of a watermelon. He
weighs around 7 lbs this week. Baby weight is very subjective by now so I’m
giving you the average according to my books.</span></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-40807770781765339432012-01-23T17:40:00.000-08:002012-01-23T17:40:32.879-08:00Week 37<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I am finally FULL-TERM!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is so exciting!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m finally done work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last Wednesday at 4 PM, I officially handed
it all to my replacement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have
much hope that she won’t mess some of the stuff up, but hopefully she’ll pick
up stuff faster when she’s on her own than when I was training her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is officially not my problem anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Now I just get to talk to the
insurance company taking care of our Short Term Disability plan a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, when you leave work even by
doctor’s orders they still feel the need to call and get “more”
information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre mailed them my
paperwork this morning and I’m hoping that that will be all they need to
process my claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, the complete
maximum amount of time I’ll be off work and covered by them in 5 weeks since my
due date is in 3 weeks and doctors don’t let you go over your EDD by more than
2 weeks nowadays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just feel like
they’re giving themselves a lot of work by trying to see if I could go on
modified duties for work by corresponding with my supervisor and all that
stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it really worth it to get me
to work an extra 2 to 3 weeks?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kind of
wish that baby boy hurries up and gets here so I don’t have to deal with all
this ridiculous stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure he’s
like me though and he’s happy hanging around until someone forcibly evicts him
from my uterus.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">At my last appointment with my doctor
this past week, she told me I tested negative for Group B Strep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was my last appointment with her because she is also going on mat
leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I get to meet my new ob-gyn
this Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m kinda nervous about
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that I like her because I
don’t do well with people I don’t like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My present doctor tends to be a little too happy, sunshiny about
everything, but I can deal with that since she listens to my concerns and is
open to what I have to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m really
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m still having panic attacks over
having an actual baby in the next 5 weeks, but I think I need to get into the
mindset that we’ll be okay even if we don’t have everything done for the baby
when he gets here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should probably
pick a name for him though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem
is that Andre’s name I don’t like AT ALL and my name Andre is not fond of what
the name means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say that when
I found out the meaning of the name I wasn’t impressed either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we might have to go back to the
drawing board and make a list of possibilities and try to find one that we both
like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apart from picking a name, I still
need to find a diaper bags and a baby carrier, make some more frozen meals, and
finish cleaning and organizing all of baby boy’s stuff.</span></div>
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looking at the picture, but my shirt no longer covers my baby bump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could feel some skin down there when Dre
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">My average weight this week is 180.9 lbs which is a loss 0.1 lbs since
last week. This makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy exactly 27.9 lbs.
When the nurse weighed me this week, she couldn’t seem to believe that I might
have lost some weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m really not
doing anything differently, but the doctor tells me that that can happen
towards the end of pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weird
since the baby is putting on more weight than ever now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like there’s no more room in there for
him so he’s going to have to come out pretty soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I still get bad, bad, bad heartburn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m pretty sure that won’t change until baby boy gets here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also getting a lot of indigestion so I’m
drinking a lot of Ginger Ale to help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I haven’t really seen any “nesting” urge around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look at stuff and tell myself that I need
to do something about it, but I don’t have the energy to go do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything seems to take so long to do when
you’re pregnant that at the end of the day it feels like nothing got done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now I’m focusing on accomplishing a
little every day and hopefully everything will get done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank goodness that Dre is happy to help
though because the man does tons and then I feel bad that I let him do
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I didn’t get as many BHs this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I tend to get them when I’m up and walking around though which makes all
my shopping excursions interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
painful contractions this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doctor
didn’t check me for dilation or effacement at my weekly appointment since I
didn’t have any timeable contractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m ok with that because it reduces the chances of an infection being
introduced to my uterus that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyways, I’ve heard all the stories of mamas walking around 4 cm dilated
and 100% effaced for weeks before finally being induced because they went over
their due dates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll see what this new
doctor does, but I’d rather wait until I’m 40 weeks before we start doing the
fun, fun cervical checks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m really looking forward to being organized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like everything is always un-organized
and everywhere right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that
I’m going to work on a to-do list tonight so that I have a clear idea of what I
need to do before the baby gets here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Baby is the size of a watermelon. He
weighs around 6.5 lbs this week. I can officially say that I’ll be squeezing a
watermelon out of my hoo-haa in a few weeks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eep!</span></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-34182328785605873062012-01-23T17:32:00.000-08:002012-01-23T17:32:51.068-08:00Week 36<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I know it’s taken me a really, really
long time to update this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess that
in the middle of all the crazy stuff I had to get done so I’d be ready to leave
work for a year that this blog post got lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since I’m already a week late, I’ll just do a short update for Week 36.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Dre and I organized and sorted most
of the baby stuff this weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I
have a better idea of what I can start to wash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My mom thinks I should wash every single piece of baby clothing that I
have, but I think it’s a bad idea since I don’t know if I’ll even use some of
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For now, I’m washing everything I
got second-hand and a few of the smaller outfits as well as all the sheets and
blankets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll re-evaluate how much we
need after a week of baby being here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
figure it will give my mom something to do if I give her a big basket full of
baby stuff to wash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She loves doing that
type of thing!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">My average weight this week is 181.0 lbs which is a gain of 1.1 lbs
since last week. This makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy exactly 28.0
lbs. I can’t believe I’m still under the 30 lbs. gain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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breathe at night with the heartburn burning in my throat and the acid trying to
come back up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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contractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing really that I can
time though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They seem to get worse
every time I get stressed out or walk around too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I’m really looking forward to finishing work and hanging out with some
friends this weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to an
Epicure party that one of my friends is throwing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I LOVE Epicure spices so I’m really excited
about this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m even thinking of having
my own Epicure party this summer so I can stock on some more spices and get
awesome discounts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Baby is the size of a cantaloupe
again. He weighs around 6 lbs this week. From now on, the weight is more of an
average since babies are usually born anywhere from 5 to 10 lbs in the next few
weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-72403896745793053742012-01-11T19:07:00.000-08:002012-01-11T19:07:38.308-08:00Week 35Turns out that training someone to take over your job is stressful, exhausting, and really annoying. I'm pretty sure that she'll either do a great job and make me look like an idiot when I go back since she has more qualifications than I do or she'll do a really crappy job and I'll have to fix all the problems when I go back. <br />
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I'm going on sick leave starting next Thursday. This is 1.5 weeks earlier than I had originally planned to start my maternity leave. When I saw my doctor last week, she wanted to pull me out of work immediately, but that almost gave me a panic attack so I told her not yet. I've since decided that I will leave earlier because I'm exhausted and in pain most of the time and sitting at work makes it worse.<br />
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While I was at the doctor's, she decided to do Group B Strep swab test. Ugh! So not fun to have a long q-tip shoved up there. <br />
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In other news, I've reached 35 weeks which is wow! I can't believe that my due date is 4.5 weeks away and that really baby boy could be here at any time. Cue panic attack when I think about the baby's room which is not organized yet, the lack of name, and the frozen dinners that I haven't made yet. Deep breaths! Maybe if I ignore it all it will magically get done! Yeah, I'm probably dreaming!<br />
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Picture time!<br />
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</tbody></table>That shirt is barely covering my bump now. I might have to use a different one soon!<br />
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<div class="widget Blog" id="Blog1"> <div class="blog-posts hfeed"> <div class="date-outer"> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5813864668103003648"> <div class="widget Blog" id="Blog1"> <div class="blog-posts hfeed"> <div class="date-outer"> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> My average weight this week is 179.9 lbs which is a gain of 1.2 lbs since last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy exactly 26.9 lbs. I can't believe I'm still putting on a lb or so a week. The baby is now so big that he takes all of my stomach space so I'm eating about 60% of what I was eating a month ago. So it's not the food putting weight on me and I really haven't changed any of my physical activity habits so it must be the baby. If he keeps growing this way, he'll be quite the big baby when he's born.</div><div class="post hentry"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Heartburn, acid reflux, and indigestion are my constant friends now. I get them all every day. I'm so over it. I'm ready to get my digestive system back. I can't wait to be able to go to a restaurant and eat whatever I want and not have to be afraid that 30 minutes later I feel so stuffed I want to die or feel the "burn" of heartburn.</div><div class="post hentry"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content">No energy here. I'm still waiting for this mythical "nesting" thing that everyone keeps telling me about. </div><div class="post hentry"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">BHs are always around now. I get them a lot. I've gotten a few painful contractions, but it's mostly when I'm at work or walking around a store. So basically I should just sit on my couch and not move. During my doctor's appointment last week, she sent me to L&D to get monitored since I'd mentioned that baby boy hadn't moved much in the last 4 days. As soon as I got hooked up to the monitors, baby boy started kicking the crap out of those monitors. No problems there! When the nurse checked me, she told me that I was contracting. I can't feel most of them though. Crazy! </div><div class="post hentry"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to this weekend. I get to attend one of my friend's baby shower. She's due 4 days after me on Valentine's Day so we might end up in the hospital at the same time! I got these adorable toy leashes made by my friend <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/270840616275831/#!/Bibmababy">Bibmababy</a>. Adorable! I'm keeping one and giving the other one away to my friend for her baby shower, but now I can't make up my mind because they're so cute! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmVAT4B8PfbGDy06mhi-XNpZGpiFpLqRkJaNiga023WBdpGKEyC_S3UuRZgkxMXi_wdxSg-3o4HWxTcKvhPejdmupTrrSPpBE1vEGaI5p0HjY3Bv9rsc-gIy5bIA4_-4Lnplr8ByGhlB1/s1600/Toy+leashes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmVAT4B8PfbGDy06mhi-XNpZGpiFpLqRkJaNiga023WBdpGKEyC_S3UuRZgkxMXi_wdxSg-3o4HWxTcKvhPejdmupTrrSPpBE1vEGaI5p0HjY3Bv9rsc-gIy5bIA4_-4Lnplr8ByGhlB1/s320/Toy+leashes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </div><div class="post hentry"> Anyways, I can't wait to go to the shower. After it, we have a Pre-Natal Aquafitness class which is awesome. Floating around is really, really awesome when you're carrying around an extra 25 lbs. It 's going to be a great weekend!</div><div class="post hentry"> </div><div class="post hentry">Baby is the size of a cantaloupe or a honeydew melon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He weighs around 5 lbs this week. Baby is getting big!</div><div class="post hentry"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-17173580770290556902012-01-03T20:06:00.000-08:002012-01-03T20:06:38.063-08:00Week 34This week baby boy's lungs are mature. It's another milestone!<br />
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When Dre and I got back from the cottage, we went shopping for the rest of the baby furniture at IKEA. We have a brand new IKEA in town and it's huge. I wanted to look at everything, but since Dre hates IKEA he kept trying to get me to look faster. We found the dresser and bookcase for the baby's room. We also found the curtains and a lamp for the room. I'm not sure that the lamp will work, but I'm going to give it a few days before I decide for sure. I'll post picture of the room once Dre and I have time to organize all the baby stuff. For now, it's kind of all stacked together...it makes the room look like it got hit by a hurricane.<br />
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On New Year's Eve, we had dinner with my SIL so we could give them their Christmas gifts since we didn't see them on Christmas. The nephews seemed happy enough with their gifts which was a huge relief since we had a really hard time getting those gifts. After that, we went to our friends' house for the countdown celebration to a New Year. It's a good thing we decided to go too because every single other person that was supposed to be there cancelled at the last minute. That would have been a real bummer for the hosts. We had a great time even though it was just the 4 of us. We watched the ball drop in Time Square in New York on TV and toasted with champagne (sparkling juice for me) the arrival of 2012. <br />
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Today was my first day back at work and since I'm now training my replacement it looks like I'll have too much to do to keep up with this blog. Yes, I usually do blog in my free time at work so now I'll have to try to write more often from home. I'm a big procrastinator so I really have to motivate myself to do it.<br />
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While I was at work, Dre installed the car seat in the car. Wheeee! It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. It seems like we're getting that much closer, but at the same time it's still far away. We're getting the installation checked by some volunteers for our local association for <a href="http://www.seatsforkidscanada.com/">S.E.A.T.S for kids</a> on Saturday which is why we installed the car seat now. The next date they had was Feb. 5th and I thought that was cutting it really close since my due date in Feb. 10th!<br />
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Here’s my picture this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I'm getting huge!</span><br />
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</tbody></table>My average weight this week is 178.7 lbs which is a gain of 0.7 lbs since last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy exactly 25.7 lbs. It seems that I have a week of big weight gain followed by a week of little gain. For the past 10 weeks or so that pattern seems to hold true. It's certainly interesting. I'm happy though that I haven't had any huge, crazy weight gains and that it's been a steady weight gain for the most part. <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Today, I discovered that talking a lot gives me heartburn. You don't believe me? Well, since I'm training someone at work that involves spending a lot more time talking than I normally would and I got heartburn both this morning and afternoon in the middle of my "teaching". Lovely! Tonight I feel great though so I guess I'm getting a reprieve.</div><div class="post-body entry-content"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content">My energy is still on the fritz, but I think that it's just my body's way to get me to rest a lot before the baby gets here. So for now, Dre is still doing most of the cooking. </div><div class="post-body entry-content"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I've gotten some BHs here and there. They're definitely not regular, but I am getting them a lot more often. I'm not too concerned though because my doctor doesn't seem concerned about them at all.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
The ligament pain from the baby compressing it was getting much better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Surprise! First day back at work and it's come back with a vengeance. I need to figure out what is causing it because I started having it in the bus on the way to work and then it just got worse as the day progressed which is what used to happen before my holidays. I think I might just have to wait it out until I go on mat leave.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to going to celebrate my SIL's birthday this Thursday. My nephews (5 & 8) are going to decorate the birthday cake which should be really adorable. My youngest nephew especially likes doing things like this. He helped his mom decorate the room for my shower by making special decorations for the baby. So cute! Need to get picture of it so I can show you guys!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Baby is the size of a cantaloupe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He weighs around 4.75 lbs this week. I'm pretty sure that he's trying to escape whenever I walk around now so I can definitely feel the extra weight on my cervix nowadays.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Tomorrow, I'm going for a doctor's appointment. This is my second to last appointment before I switch OBs when my doctor goes on her mat leave (remember...she's due 7 days after me). I hope I like this new doctor as I don't think I'll have much choice once I meet her since I'll be 3 weeks from my delivery date at that point.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-58138646681030036482012-01-02T20:03:00.000-08:002012-01-02T20:03:20.216-08:00Week 33I know, I know! I'm really late with posting this update. I was planning on posting from the cottage since I'd have lots of time. Problem is that at the cottage my phone's 3G network worked more like dial-up for smartphones. Other times, it didn't work at all! So no posting for me!<br />
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Dre and I had a great Christmas with my family at the cottage. We got to meet my brother's girlfriend's 2 daughters. They're a riot. They really livened up the place and I'm really glad we got to meet them. I think that when my sister is back in the country for our next family Christmas in 2 years with my niece that they'll all have a blast together. <br />
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I cooked the Christmas dinner this year and I have to say that it was a success. This is only the 2nd time that I've actually cooked a complete turkey. I usually cook the Butterball Turkeys that have no bones...so much easier to cook. So the turkey was done an hour early and I was freaking out, but my younger brother suggested I keep the bird in the oven with the heat turned off. I was concerned that it would dry out the turkey, but little bro was right since the turkey turned out AMAZING! I was so happy! Dre helped me with the whole dinner of course; he's had to become pretty handy with cooking since I've gotten pregnant. <br />
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It's back to work for me tomorrow, but I really needed those 11 days off. A lot of my pregnancy symptoms got a lot better since I've been off. Because of that, I'm thinking that I'm allergic to my work! Only 4-5 more weeks of work...the countdown has begun.<br />
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Here’s my picture this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I'm getting huge!</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My average weight this week is 178.0 lbs which is a gain of 1.4 lbs since last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy exactly 25.0 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Frankly, I'm surprised I haven't gained more since I've been eating a crazy amount of sweets and desserts for the past 2-3 weeks. Gotta love the holidays!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I still love Zantac, but baby boy is definitely compressing all of my stomach, intestines, and some of my lungs. When I eat now, I have a hard time eating and breathing at the same time. I would never have thought that that would happen. Zantac still works overall, but it's not working as well as it was. I'm guessing that pretty soon nothing will stop the heartburn and acid reflux.</div><div class="post-body entry-content"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content">I still have very little energy most of the time. This fabled nesting that everyone keeps talking about hasn't appeared yet. So I'm letting Dre install the car seat tomorrow all by himself because I can't see myself sitting outside in the cold trying to figure it out.</div><div class="post-body entry-content"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">BHs are getting more frequent and intense. I've even had a few that felt like real contractions and not just BHs, but it's really hard to tell. Mostly, I just get period like cramping every now and then. I figure that as long as they don't get more intense or regular then I'm fine. I think Dre is worried though because his favorite question lately is if my cramps are regular. Cute husband is getting worried. I don't know what he'll do when I tell him that it's time to go to the hospital in a few weeks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby boy is a lot less active most days. It's not very reassuring for me, but I understand that it's because he's running out of room to stretch out. <br />
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The ligament pain from the baby compressing is much, much better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that sitting at my desk and getting in and out of cars in aggravating that particular symptom because it's basically disappeared for the most part in the past 11 days. The belly button is flatish to almost being an outie. It's so weird to be able to see the bottom of your belly button like that. No other stretch marks for me so far. </div><div class="post-body entry-content"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to getting everything ready for the baby. It seems that baby boy will be here so soon now!<br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Baby is the size of a squash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He weighs around 4.5 lbs this week and it feels like it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This is one heavy baby.</span><br />
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Tomorrow, I'll do my 34 week update...stay tuned!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-47118917244710114472011-12-20T12:31:00.000-08:002011-12-20T12:31:32.557-08:00Week 32<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I think I’m starting to have some mild panic attacks over the fact that the baby is going to be here in about 8 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one hand, I want him to get here so I can go back to eating and feeling like a normal person, but on the other hand I really, really, really don’t want to go through labor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially since every time I mention that Dre and I are leaning towards having the least amount of intervention needed, I get told that it’s going to be the worse pain of my life or they tell me a story about how they know someone who’s now paralyzed from getting an epidural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a little freaked out!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I definitely have not gone to IKEA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have enough energy these days to go walk through that store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I’ll go on one of my days off in the next 2 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">No progress on picking out baby names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre really likes a name that I think is just OK and I really like all names that are more English than bilingual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to bring my short-list of names to the cottage and Dre and I will discuss this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to have a name to call the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone else on my online forum seems to have named their babies already and I’m still going around calling the baby, Baby boy or LO (loved one).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m still keeping up my regimen of drinking prune juice every day because I’ve developed some serious constipation issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the baby just likes sitting on my intestines which backs me up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say that the taste of prune juice is disgusting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m hiding a quarter glass of it in a full glass of other juice, but I can still taste the nastiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to have to find a better juice to disguise the taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s my picture this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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I thought a change of scenery would be nice!</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I meant to update last week’s post with my picture since I had forgotten to have Dre take it, but when he took it I realized that I had forgotten the memory card in my work laptop and so the picture saved to the camera itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is that I can’t find the cord for our camera so for now my Week 31 belly picture is being held hostage by my camera.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">My average weight this week is 176.6 lbs which is a gain of 1.1 lbs since last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes my total weight gain for this pregnancy 23.6 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m quite close to getting to the 25lbs gain!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I’m supposed to gain between 25-35 lbs according to all the books and doctors, I’ve almost reached the lower end of the range.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder how much weight I’ll gain in the next 7-9 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty sure that I’ll end up gaining around 35-40 lbs this pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m happy about that.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I love Zantac!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like the miracle drug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take it every night and it keeps the acid reflux and heartburn in check most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lunch tends to give me some heartburn and acid reflux, but it’s not too bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I don’t take a Zantac before dinner though, I suffer the most awful burning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It literally feels like I’m breathing the fire of a thousand suns!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I have zero energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s especially bad during the week since I expend all of my energy going to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time, I get home at night I have no energy or desire to do anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve also noticed that I can’t do too much during the weekends either or I get so tired!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My plan for the coming 11 days of holidays is to do nothing, lots of nothing, and lots of sleeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a good spot to mention the fact that I still need to do a million thing before the baby comes which gives me panic attacks, but I can’t find the energy to start doing any of them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">A few BHs for me this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were probably caused by me doing too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to pace myself with all the Christmas stuff I have to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When baby boy moves, he’s much more noticeable since different part of my belly move at the same time, but he’s also started moving a lot less because he’s pretty much run out of space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, this freaks me out most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ligament pain from the baby compressing it is still excruciating most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve just learned to walk through it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The belly button is still flat for now, but every day it’s inching its way to being an outie.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to my massage this Thursday and then being on vacation for the next 11 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working while being pregnant is much harder than I imagined it would be and it’s taking everything I have to get through every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only 4 weeks and 3 days of work left for me till I go on mat leave for a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Baby is the size of a squash again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He weighs around 4 lbs this week and it feels like it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the doctor measured my fundal height (height of your uterus) yesterday, I was at 34 inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The inches usually correspond to the number of weeks you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At my 30 weeks appointments, I was measuring exactly at 30 inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just 2 weeks later my measurements have gone up by 4 inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So now baby is measuring 2 weeks ahead!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Craziness!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s already growing like a weed and he hasn’t even come out yet.</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-37273220450316076852011-12-16T12:34:00.000-08:002011-12-20T12:34:18.461-08:00Christmas at our House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is what our house looks like this Christmas. I managed to put most of the decorations out even though it took me a couple of weeks to get it done!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4l8dek8m3TisTm55an7mQS5PbI1mCccCo056gGYAZh-ShIEZkcERVyUmbDGi6gqLJUYrxyIvtzby9s0xf8DAxbX9M5c5LtYwv6tevtH-TcFGVFx-DSwKQToYi1Lfh703LjUou4FF-nAHN/s1600/P1010090.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4l8dek8m3TisTm55an7mQS5PbI1mCccCo056gGYAZh-ShIEZkcERVyUmbDGi6gqLJUYrxyIvtzby9s0xf8DAxbX9M5c5LtYwv6tevtH-TcFGVFx-DSwKQToYi1Lfh703LjUou4FF-nAHN/s200/P1010090.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemIeUSb-XLHLyFihx2rw9TcsTBInzgXaql4OGma_T_LXY_LS7ut6G1JZnvYS69p7NL5Btxwa-Gg4DevJSfIvnIVGKZyoGEhAP14EdUOvLb6SrczVoR9ndQnq9nSpk6m_XC9OTWhP9G7Ov/s1600/P1010088.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemIeUSb-XLHLyFihx2rw9TcsTBInzgXaql4OGma_T_LXY_LS7ut6G1JZnvYS69p7NL5Btxwa-Gg4DevJSfIvnIVGKZyoGEhAP14EdUOvLb6SrczVoR9ndQnq9nSpk6m_XC9OTWhP9G7Ov/s200/P1010088.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The centerpiece on our dining table.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhICZKHA8_RdQ9_JZhtmj8ojqv00nBSEps_dtXHlkES_ZBcKssVeC0j5A2v54w0zEkeO6-rJmR7nuluEfuprwXZB4dVI6z1A0KI2gHp3QmCp9UYUA83Bi7UT4DbWo4DbG9KpPCOltejWE7u/s1600/P1010092.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhICZKHA8_RdQ9_JZhtmj8ojqv00nBSEps_dtXHlkES_ZBcKssVeC0j5A2v54w0zEkeO6-rJmR7nuluEfuprwXZB4dVI6z1A0KI2gHp3QmCp9UYUA83Bi7UT4DbWo4DbG9KpPCOltejWE7u/s320/P1010092.JPG" width="320" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKneBnZnjO9EWKC5YeDSichLWdA9GhQjNEH2gfRpQn1jXQ123aZtMO-36s4E7DWo23Um86ZVK2sR-3A_oC1WNba4bUbAzXLNNxG8hKmpGhQJUK3zn6XMzvd67Jp2nQlSB4tzlbc1SMPpiF/s1600/P1010095.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKneBnZnjO9EWKC5YeDSichLWdA9GhQjNEH2gfRpQn1jXQ123aZtMO-36s4E7DWo23Um86ZVK2sR-3A_oC1WNba4bUbAzXLNNxG8hKmpGhQJUK3zn6XMzvd67Jp2nQlSB4tzlbc1SMPpiF/s320/P1010095.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div align="center">The Christmas wreaths on either side of our front door. </div><div align="center">The bell one hangs inside since it would rust outside and the berry one hangs outside.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">So that's what our house looks like for Christmas this year. Next year I'll probably go a lot bigger since it will be baby boy's first Christmas. </div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-84189886067915523842011-12-12T12:48:00.001-08:002011-12-12T12:48:55.115-08:00Week 31I’ve officially reached the end of my rope! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week has been filled with trying to get presents for all the nieces/nephews and parents. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that we kind of left it to really late, but with all the baby stuff we’ve been preoccupied with other stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, all of the stores and online stores seem to have run out of stock of stuff you’d buy an 8 year old boy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I normally enjoy Christmas shopping, but this year I have to say that I haven’t enjoyed it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully, next year I’m more on the ball and things go more smoothly! <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I haven’t made it to IKEA yet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to confess that I’m too exhausted most of the time to even contemplate going over there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where did all my energy go?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Dre and I also haven’t made any progress at picking a baby name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s my fault because I just ran out of steam and couldn’t keep reading books filled with names. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s something we might be tackling over the Christmas holidays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re spending a week at a cottage with my family and since I can’t ski this year we’ll have plenty of quiet time to discuss this stuff. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">This week I have started drinking…PRUNE juice. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never thought I’d do that, but you have to do what you gotta do! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with me starting the poo juice, I didn’t gain any weight this week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My average weight this week is 175.5 lbs. which is a weight loss of 0.2 lbs from last week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That really surprised me because I haven’t started eating any better than before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes my total weight gain so far 22.5 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’ve noticed that I can’t eat anymore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel full after I barely eat anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baby is starting to take up a lot of room and I’ve definitely noticed it with my appetite.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m religiously taking Zantac after Friday night. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happened Friday night you ask. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I woke up throwing up acid into my mouth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was lovely!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had taken my Zantac with dinner, but I’d also had my Omega 3 Salmon Oil supplement right before bedtime. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This is normal for me.) Apparently, there’s acid in those pills and that along with my bedtime snack combined to make me violently ill for 1 hour on Friday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t describe to you guys the taste that that pill left in my mouth as I was trying to get the acid under control. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so bad that I took another Zantac and some tums and then sat up in bed for 2 hours trying to keep from throwing up again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Saturday, I had to get up early enough because I had 2 friends coming over to do a day of Christmas baking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say, I felt like death warmed over on Saturday morning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully, I got my energy back since I sampled everything we baked. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m feeling like crap most of the time, but I’m still telling people I feel great because I just don’t have the energy to talk to them about all my symptoms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this fatigue is going to kill me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like I’ve run out of energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t wait for this nesting thing to kick in because then I’ll at least get some of the stuff that needs to get done before the baby arrives done.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’ve had some BHs this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re hard to catch for me because they don’t usually hurt…they just make my belly feel super hard and tight. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baby has taken to jabbing and poling random stuff. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One website described it as gestating an angry housecat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they had it right!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes, I feel like this baby has a lot more than 2 legs and arms with the way he’s poking and prodding. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre thinks all of this is extremely cute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s cute.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Ligament pain is still around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back pain has joined in to make sure that the right side of my body hurts all the time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walk really slowly most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Belly button is flat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m expecting the baby to kick the crap out of it and officially “pop” it into an outie any day now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I cannot wait for my massage next week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes my body feel all better for a little bit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like heaven!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to completing our last baby class tomorrow. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like them and found them informative, but I’m kind of over them right now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like I could use the time better to do something else. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also really looking forward to the Christmas holidays starting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need some R&R.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some days, I wonder how I’m going to keep working until February 1<sup>st</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day at a time is my motto right now!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Baby is a squash again this week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He weighs a ton…I can’t imagine how he’ll put on 3 more lbs at least before he comes out.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">If this post seems a little rambly and random this week, ignore it! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just stressed and tired today<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-87330258346286044792011-12-07T12:32:00.000-08:002011-12-07T12:32:05.540-08:00Week 30...75% baked!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Yup, it’s taken me forever to write this post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve had a hectic week and I feel like I’m always running around and doing something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I’m officially ¾ of the way done with my pregnancy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How crazy is that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one hand, it’s gone by really fast, but on the other it’s also crawled by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All those lovely symptoms just make it seem like I’ve been pregnant forever.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We now have a crib AND a crib mattress in the baby’s room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Craziness!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It almost looks like a baby room now<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This weekend or next week, I’m braving the crazy crowds at the new IKEA in town to go get the dresser and a bookshelf for the baby’s room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I’ll have everything I need for that room except for a lamp, curtains, a hamper, and a wall decal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might just get this room done by the time baby boy decides to appear!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I saw my doctor on Monday which is partially why this post wasn’t posted on Monday and she told me I’m having a really good pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t want to see what a bad one looks like!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I’m lucky, but sometimes as I’m trying to rock myself out of our bed at night so I can go pee I don’t feel so lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to keep in mind that baby boy is very healthy, measuring right on track, and that I’ve had no major issues.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I should just stop writing about the ::GASP:: crazy amount of weight I’ve gained in a week because every time I do the next week I gain even more!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll blame this one on the baby being hungry all the time and me being constipated a lot lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My average weight this week is 175.7 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, you heard me right that would be a whopping 2.4 lbs gain in ONE WEEK!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes my total weight gain so far 22.7 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I wanted to stay under 30 lbs gained this pregnancy….bahahahahaha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Christmas coming and all the yummy stuff I’m baking for the holidays I have a feeling that my weight is going to go up, up, up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Join me in 3 months when I’m trying to work off all those cinnamon rolls and shortbread cookies off my ass…until then…where are those cinnamon rolls?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m still taking Zantac on most nights since dinner seems to be what sets off the acid reflux/heartburn combo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It works really well when I remember to take it before I eat dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">BTW, every single person who sees me asks me, “How are you feeling/How are you doing?” every single time they see me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is fine when it’s my friends or Dre, but I’m dangerously close to telling my coworkers to take a hike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know they’re just excited/happy/curious about the baby, but I’m getting a little tired of coming up with an answer every time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one tells you about this when you decide to have a baby!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I think I’ve had 1-2 BHs this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to tell because the baby is so active now that a lot of the time it’s hard to tell his random poking and jabbing from an actual BH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ligament pain is still very bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t lift my right leg and walking hurts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve gotten very slow when walking because the faster I walk to more it hurts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stretch mark count is still at one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plan on keeping it that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Belly button watch is still reporting that it’s basically flat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could become an outie at any moment…it just needs a good kick from the baby.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I still don’t have any sciatic pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My back pain has flared up, but I had a massage last Sunday and that took care of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clinic accidently booked me for a 1-hr massage instead of a 30 min one, but I didn’t care since it made my back so much better!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also massaged my hips and upper bum and told me my hips were super tights and locked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, that hurt, but it feels great now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love my massages!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to Christmas baking this weekend with two of my really good friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We each cook 2-3 recipes and then exchange goodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So good!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year, we decided to do this instead of buying Christmas presents for each other and it was an awesome idea so we’re doing it again this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Baby is now the size of a squash…again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s pretty much stopped growing in length, but he now weighs about 3 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-14548643130081356812011-11-29T12:56:00.000-08:002011-11-29T12:56:48.665-08:00Shopping FrenzyDre and I went to visit my aunt and uncle for the weekend partly because I hadn’t seen them in a while and partly to shop for baby stuff. <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We had amazing food while we were there and I ate way too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">On Saturday, Dre and I ventured out by ourselves to visit all the baby/maternity stores we could think of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre planned the route out…it was really cute.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We stopped at the Carter’s baby clothes outlet first. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My aunt had given us a coupon they had that was for 20% off your order and when we went everything in the store was 50% off! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got $200 worth of baby clothes for $60!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Score!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We quickly glanced at the Osh K Osh and Gymboree outlets, but they mainly focus on outfits for kids and I personally don’t think that babies wear that many clothes in the first 6 months. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Then we headed for Best Buy to check out their video cameras. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had a few good ones, but Dre and I decided to wait until after Christmas sales and see if we still want to get one then. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that filming with our iPhones will work as well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up next we stopped at Old Navy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, we have Old Navy here in <country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region>, but all the stores that have maternity lines in the states don’t have them in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So for $50, I got leggings, 2 sweaters, and 3 undershirts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would have cost me $200 over here at our maternity store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">After that, I was starving so we stopped at this little pizza joint which had the best pizza EVER!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was thin crusted pizza which I don’t usually like, but it was amazing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we headed over to this consignment store my uncle had mentioned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve had bad luck with consignment stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find them crowded and they make me claustrophobic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one was gold though! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got 10 sleepers and 10 onesies for $30. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the PJs still had the original tags on it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">After that, we went to Baby R Us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hate the Baby R Us in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Burlington</city>, <state w:st="on">VT</state></place>! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s worse than the one over here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Toys R Us apparently decided that baby stuff didn’t sell and used 80% of the store for toys and the 20% that had baby stuff was crammed full. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We couldn’t find everything we were looking for, but we still saved money compared to how much stuff costs in our BRU. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t really have any good sales either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre had also decided that he wasn’t waiting on IKEA to stock our crib anymore so he wanted to get one while we were down there since they’re cheaper in the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We needed one that was in stock though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So BRU had a total of 6 cribs jammed together and setup (ours has at least 12 setup). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After seeing that, we paid for our stuff using about 10 gift cards (the cashier LOVED me) and decided to keep going. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We made a brief stop at Walmart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found out that Walmart sells the Bumbo for $20 cheaper than BRU, but there was no way in hell that I was going back into that BRU to get a refund so we just kept the one we’d gotten. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found a larger winter coat that didn’t make me look like a homeless person there for $20. Didn’t find anything else here.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Our last stop was at this baby boutique we’d visited the last time we were in <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Vermont</place></state>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have great stuff, but it’s a little expensive since it’s geared towards the higher end stuff. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started looking at their cribs and was getting discouraged because all they had were Pali cribs (which are actually really good cribs, but too expensive for me) that would take 12 weeks to order. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I found our crib!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The floor model was white, but it said it came in dark brown too so Dre goes and asks the sales lady if they have it in stock and they actually did in the dark color! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How perfect is that?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">So we found everything we needed, we spent a small fortune this weekend, and getting through customs with all the stuff was a breeze which is not what I’d expected. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">On the way back home, we stopped at a BRU to get the crib bedding set we like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was on special in the Canadian stores this weekend only. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time, we picked up almost everything else we needed and returned the 4 items I got in double at my shower. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">After all of that, I don’t think Dre ever wants to see a BRU again! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might have to bring my SIL with me when I go visit a few of the specialty boutiques we have in town to get the last few knick knacks that I haven’t found anywhere else.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Our trip was a definite success!</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-83193346182651433062011-11-28T12:20:00.000-08:002011-11-28T12:20:55.924-08:00Week 29<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The weeks seem to be blending together now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m really glad that they’re going by, but I seem to be focusing a lot more on the fact that I still have 11 weeks left and OMG I am uncomfortable most of the time!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">When baby boy flipped to a head down position last Monday, he landed head down in my right hip and pressing on the ligament that goes under the uterus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SO MUCH PAIN!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dre likes to tell me unhelpful stuff like, “Move slowly.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doesn’t really matter how slow or fast I move since any movement aggravates the ligament and causes me pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully, this weekend baby boy decided that my hip sucked and has shifted over slightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s amazing to be able to move without pain!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He does flip flop back and forth between digging into my hip and being in a better position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m really hoping that he doesn’t decide he likes my hip too much because I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to walk if he keeps getting bigger and heavier and pressing on that particular spot.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">This weekend we went to visit some of my relatives in <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Vermont</place></state> which meant we were just in time to participate in some of the awesome Black Friday deals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll write about all the awesome stuff Dre and I found while we were over there later on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just want to mention that we did end up buying a crib.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got it from a Baby Boutique store so we paid a little more than if we’d bought it from Amazon.com or Baby R Us, but we wanted a particular style of crib for a reasonable price and we needed it to be in stock since we were only in the States for the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On this side of the border, cribs are consistently at least $200 over the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall, we ended up paying a lot less for that crib than if we’d bought it over here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Let’s talk about my weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess that baby boy is really concentrating on putting on weight because mine has been climbing very steadily in the last few weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve also had a lot of problems with the slow down of my digestive system which means that I tend to be constipated a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I’ll have to start eating prunes or something to keep things regular.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">My average weight this week is 173.3 lbs. which is a 1.3 lb gain over the last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My total weight gain so far is 20.3 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s pretty reasonable so I’m happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t have Saturday’s weight in there and next week won’t have Sunday’s weight in there since my aunt does not have a scale at her house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall, it really won’t change anything.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’ve started taking my Zantac a little more regularly to combat against the heartburn and acid reflux that 90% of food seems to give me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This weekend I noticed that I really can’t eat as much as I used to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems like I fill up so fast now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Friday night shortly after I’d gone to sleep I woke up throwing up in my mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was not the little acid coming back up which is annoying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was so much acid coming back up that I was afraid to get back into bed after I got up to rinse my mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By that time, Dre had woken up and he insisted I take a Zantac.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also took a Tums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t lie down in bed though. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time I lied back I could feel the acid coming back up and being really close to throwing up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to go back to sleep sitting up propped by 3 pillows. I had been sleeping on 2 pillows when this happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was so much fun that on Saturday I took my 2 prescribed Zantac to make sure that it didn’t happen again the next night.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’ve only had one BH this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I mentioned above the ligament pain is pretty bad, but right now baby boy is not resting on it so I’m good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No other stretch marks to report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My belly button is almost completely flat though!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve thought that I would have an outie by Week 20 since the beginning because my belly button started getting so much shallower so early, but for now it’s still an innie.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Sciatic pain and leg pain have vanished for now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to setting up the crib and arranging the baby room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re still missing the dresser which we’ll get around Dec. 7<sup>th</sup>, but apart from that we have almost everything else we need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing I still need to order is the wall decal for the baby’s room and to do that Dre and I have to figure out the name since most of the decals have the baby’s name on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I’m decorating the house for the holidays next weekend which is huge deal for me since I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Christmas!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Baby is the size of a squash!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s getting so big!</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-43665289703285595892011-11-23T11:56:00.000-08:002011-11-23T11:56:11.051-08:00Hospital Bag, Baby Classes, and Hospital Tours...Oh My!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Dre still wants to pack a hospital bag and keeps reminding me of this.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">However my hospital bag is still not packed because I like to procrastinate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll probably be yelling the list to Dre as I go into labor instead of packing it early and having it in the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure he’ll love that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just can’t seem to find the energy to think of what needs to be in that bag and then actually pack it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Dre has also decided to start obsessing about what happens if I go into labor while I’m at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s cute because I’ve been worried about that, but I didn’t know that he’d even thought about the possibility since I’ve never mentioned it to him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hasn’t seemed too worried about the labor part up until now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I asked him what he would do if there was a snowstorm when I go into labor, his answer was to gleefully rub his hands together and say “4 wheel drive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh yeah!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men are so weird sometimes.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">By the way, I have no idea what I’ll do if I go into labor at work since I take the bus to work and most of the people who drive into work are not people I want around me when I’m in pain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll figure it out eventually.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We had the 1<sup>st</sup> of 4 baby classes last night. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it gave tons of useful information, the teacher (a registered nurse, lactation consultant, and doula) was the most boring person ever. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She read the slides and played videos without really getting our input about different things. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They went over a lot of the labor stuff and showed us this video of the baby’s head descending into the cervix and dilating the cervix about 8 or 9 times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also got to see several videos of women having the babies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a little scaring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know what happens during labor, but I guess I don’t really want to see it in that much detail so I don’t freak myself out too much. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d rather get the tools I need to successfully handle pain and breastfeed.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We’ll have to see if these classes get more interesting in the coming weeks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s disappointing because the 1<sup>st</sup> series of 3 classes had such an awesome nurse as a teacher. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another disappointing thing is that they don’t actually let your tour the hospital’s (the course is in the hospital) labor and delivery floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is just so weird!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead we have to attend an Information Night where they’ll show up pictures of the rooms and all that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ughhhhh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I deal better with things when they aren’t unknown and not having seen where I’ll end up really won’t help my anxiety and stress levels. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently the all-knowing hospital staff can’t figure out that pregnant women (especially first time moms) might have a lot of anxiety and stress. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m off to get reimbursed for my yoga classes that I’m missing because of the baby classes also being on Tuesdays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wish me luck!</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-43002190614677048152011-11-22T12:25:00.000-08:002011-11-22T12:25:55.762-08:00All is Good!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I had a doctor’s appointment yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was my last monthly visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From now on, I see her every other week until 36 weeks and then every week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she had me schedule all of my remaining appointments until she goes on maternity leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">***Side note, she’s pregnant and due 7 days after me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s working until I’m 36 weeks and then my care is being transferred to her <place w:st="on">OB.</place><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have never met this OB so I hope I like her since I think it’s too late to find a new one at 37 weeks which is when I’ll meet her.***</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I am going to be seeing my doctor a lot in the next 2 months!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s funny because I feel like I really don’t have many questions for her anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She just measures my uterus height and listen’s to baby’s heart and then we’re done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uterus was measuring at 29 cm yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally at 28 weeks you would expect me to measure 28 cm, but doctors aren’t too concerned by a +/-2 cm variance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">She also poked all around my uterus trying to figure out where baby’s head was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thinks he’s head down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hasn’t been until yesterday though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did this major flip and exercise routine midday yesterday and I guess he decide to get in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s good because I didn’t want him staying breech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know he could flip back around just as easily since he still has quite a bit of room to move right now, but he doesn’t do the big major somersaults very often so we’ll see.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I did pass my gestational diabetes test with no problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The CBC panel run on the extra blood drawn didn’t show anything bad and it showed that I’m not anemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No extra iron pills for me.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I did have to pee in a cup yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This isn’t exactly news since they make you pee in the damn cup every time you go to the office when you’re pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve recently noticed that I cannot see my lady bits anymore which makes peeing in a small container is really, really hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to aim for something that you can barely see!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no idea what I’ll do at the end since I won’t be able to see anything by then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up peeing all over that damn container.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a good thing that the nurses wear gloves!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">So everything is going well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next appointment is coming up in just 2 weeks!</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-59649093514337891712011-11-21T12:07:00.000-08:002011-11-22T12:08:08.897-08:00Week 28In the news today, I PASSED MY GD TEST!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since there was no way in hell that I was taking that 3 hour test with multiple blood draws, this is a very, very good thing. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I also didn’t make it to IKEA last Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SIL and I just didn’t feel like driving to the store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m so lazy during the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would have been good to go and get the dresser though since I had my baby shower on Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I have a room full of stuff and nowhere to put it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom who LOVES to clean and organize has decided that all the baby stuff simply can’t lie around until I get to it so she hung everything up and started organizing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also decided my kitchen floor was dirty and hand scrubbed it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t really care since I was never going to get on my knees to wash it anyways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now it’s all nice, sparkly, and clean.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Dre and I start the second part of our baby classes this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so exciting because we get to tour the hospital and have discussions about that particular hospital’s ideas on labour and delivery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure Dre is less excited than me, but since he’s really obsessed with my belly he gets to come and learn all about breastfeeding and pushing a watermelon out of a donut hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure this will not scar him at all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hehe!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Dre probably kisses my belly more than he kisses me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man has a serious obsession with babies!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very cute though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s started playing classical music to the baby at night which is fine with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I refuse to play music and put headphones on my belly though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to scare the little guy to death when his nice quiet, floaty environment is invaded by this crazy orchestra music.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Whoa, weight gain!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week played havoc on my weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started to freak out a little, but I realized that I’ve been constipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not someone who tracks whether or not I’ve pooed on a particular day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of that it usually takes me a while to realize that I’m constipated and maybe I should eat something to get me all cleared up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is that the most effective things for me are green tea or coffee which are things I’m trying not to drink while pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green tea because it blocks the absorption of folic acid into your system and caffeine because I think that giving the baby caffeine jolts every day is stressful to his tiny body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve limited my caffeine to chocolate because there is no way I’m giving up chocolate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No way!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want to know how I got rid of Mr. Constipation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Popcorn!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s right, I went to see Breaking Dawn with SIL and I had a huge bag of popcorn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m addicted to movie theatre popcorn…yes, I’m aware that it’s about a million calories and 12 times my daily salt intake, but do you know what else popcorn has?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fiber!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So next time I’m all stopped up, I’m going to see a movie and eating my body weight in popcorn!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">So my average weight this week is 172.0 lbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, that would be a 2.7 lbs gain in one week!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lovely!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baby is either packing on the weight or my poo weighs a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My total weight gain so far is 19 lbs in 28 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully, baby boy doesn’t decide to add almost 3 lbs of weight to mommy’s butt every week or I’ll be rolling into the hospital at 40 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Heartburn, acid reflux, and indigestion like to hang around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figure it’s because the baby has started taking up so much space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just need to get the hang of eating less at meals and snacking more often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easier said than done.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">No BH in sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead I have this weird pain in my pelvis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doctor says it’s ligament pain so most likely round ligament pain (RLP).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hurts a lot more than the ligament pain I had in the 1<sup>st</sup> trimester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still only have one stretch mark and my goal is to make sure he stays an orphan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Sciatic pain is there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back pain has also flared up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s because of how I need to sit at work now to make my belly comfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still need to remember to stretch every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leg pains seem to have vanished for now so I’m happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I’m really looking forward to visiting my aunt in <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Vermont</place></state> on Friday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black Friday shopping here I come!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve really missed you over these last 5 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the first year I decide to go to the States for Black Friday Canadian stores decide that they’ll get in on some of the action and start advertising Black Friday deals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WTF!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever baby stuff is still cheaper in the States since our dollar has been at par for the last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plan on scouring all the baby and maternity stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor Dre!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might have to buy him boy toys to reward him for spending a day shopping among the crazy deal hunters.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Baby is the size of an eggplant again according to the ticker I have on the sidebar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been 4 freaking weeks and they haven’t figured out what other type of fruit or vegetable could be about the same size so we could have a variety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hold on…according to another website baby is the size of a CHINESE CABBAGE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I have no idea what that is…</div>Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-49062717385379258542011-11-20T17:56:00.000-08:002011-11-21T19:38:07.729-08:00Shower TimeI had the best shower on Saturday!<br />
Lots of amazing people showed up and we had tons of fun. My SIL who hosted the shower put tons of work into making it the best shower ever. Several people commented about the fact that the shower was very impressive, well planned, and well though out. They were impressed with how SIL had thought of everything! <br />
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So a huge thank you to my SIL! (I didn't just put that on there 'cause she reads this though:-)<br />
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My mom, brother's girlfriend, and myself all headed to my SIL's house about 30 minutes before the guests were supposed to show up. SIL thought it would be a good idea for me to be there and greet everyone as they came in. For showers, I would usually be the last to arrive which is what happened for my wedding shower, but I much preferred doing it this way. At my wedding shower, I felt like the center of attention and like I didn't have time to talk to everyone for a few minutes. Since I saw everyone come in, I had the time to take a few minutes with everyone and chat which was really nice. <br />
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I mean I like attention, but I don't necessarily like being the center of attention for a group of 30 women. That part can be a little daunting.<br />
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Anyways...when we arrived I spotted the awesome diaper cake that SIL made for me. <br />
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</tbody></table>Isn't it gorgeous? She has lots of talent people! The best thing is that when SIL asked me what color I wanted for the shower I told her blue and green. I didn't specify any shades of blue and green or anything. She found the exact blue and green that I LOVE and even got ribbon with polka dots on them. AWESOME! I really wish I could have found crib bedding with these 2 colors for our baby boy, but whenever these 2 colors are combined they tend to be for girls. Apparently boys only like pastel blue, brown, and red because those are the predominant colors in boy bedding sets...oh and navy blue. Blech! I love bright colors!<br />
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SIL had several games setup on the main floor of her house as well as a table full of appetizers to tide guest over. She had diapers full of melted chocolate which were revolting looking. She had baby food jars without the labels so we could guess what kind of baby food it was. Then, she had a baby BINGO where you guessed what I would receive as a gift and as I opened them they crossed them out until they had a BINGO. The games list went on and on, but they were all fun and not the kind of games that are all like. LOOK AT ME! WE'RE PLAYING A GAME! There were plenty of games. but they were unobstrusive.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Games and my presents (pack and play) from SIL and MIL!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>After that we got herded downstairs and I got to open presents! Yay! Presents for the baby! There were so many presents...it was overwhelming. Halfway through opening the presents I was done. If someone had told me a few months ago that I would get tired sitting in a lazy boy and opening presents I would have laughed at them. I love presents so I love opening them = not a chore. Apparently when you're pregnant and in your 3rd trimester, ripping prettty, sparkling paper out of gift bags and off of boxes is really hard work. Who would have guessed?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture doesn't do justice to how pretty everything was downstairs!</td></tr>
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Dre and I got tons of stuff for the baby and tons of gift cards for Baby R Us so we can go get the stuff we're missing. We were truly blessed by our friends and families!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Presents!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>After presents, SIL rolled out the food. There was soooooo much food and it was soooo good! She even made the shower cake from scratch and decorated it herself. Isn't it cute? Yah, cutting into a cake that looks like a baby is a little creepy at first, but it was so good that we got over that one rather quickly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baby Cake. It was so yummy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the most creative fruit salad I've ever seen.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Overall, I think that everyone had an amazing time. I had a great time even though I was exhausted by the end. When we got home, I just sat surrounded by all the gifts and organized everything from the couch. <br />
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It was the perfect shower! I couldn't have asked for more.Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-22271011223786577722011-11-19T20:20:00.001-08:002011-11-19T20:20:04.584-08:00Today...I had an awesome shower today!<br />
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Now I'm totally exhausted. It's surprising that the only thing I did today was eat and open presents and it totally drained me. <br />
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So I'll tell you all about it tomorrow. <br />
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Goodnight!Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3697568651914125775.post-66462882213319986992011-11-17T18:23:00.000-08:002011-11-17T18:23:58.242-08:00Funny Kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX320IVj3ARt8ms-pMtLAz3op-GtO_0S9Ru8LUO39aGYD-7p_rRxatQLDOi7N37Yr6JdKGBkczHuwTP6pQU5YZhky7RcWGc5AnMJvzO9IiMQ8yQvjuRUk8POLdo9QyxmuQfYbn_L4DTHqp/s1600/Christmas+Wishlist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX320IVj3ARt8ms-pMtLAz3op-GtO_0S9Ru8LUO39aGYD-7p_rRxatQLDOi7N37Yr6JdKGBkczHuwTP6pQU5YZhky7RcWGc5AnMJvzO9IiMQ8yQvjuRUk8POLdo9QyxmuQfYbn_L4DTHqp/s320/Christmas+Wishlist.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>I asked my oldest nephew what he wanted for Christmas today. His answer...an iPod.<br />
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I guess this generation of children is really different from our generation. When I was eight, I wanted the latest Barbie and her awesome pink car! Everything revolved around who had the coolest Barbies and accessories. Yes, we had a computer, but back then we were still running stuff on the MS-Dos platform (not advanced at all) and the Internet hadn't come into our lives yet.<br />
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Today, my nephew wants a laptop, and iPod, or a 3DS (he has a DS already). My 9 year old niece probably wants some similar things for Christmas...I just haven't asked her yet. My 16 year old niece only wants cool stuff and never has any money so she's easy to buy for and my 5 year old nephew can amuse himself with a piece of paper and tape for hours. <br />
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I think I understand what my aunts and uncles found difficult about buying us presents when we were kids. I couldn't understand why they didn't know what was cool and what I would want for my birthday or Christmas. Now I understand since I can't for the life of me figure out what to buy for nieces and nephews when birthdays and Christmas roll around. <br />
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I'm guessing that getting them a lump of coal for their Christmas stocking isn't going to be popular so I'm just going to have to go back to the drawing board to figure out presents this year. That or I'll start harassing SIL to give me ideas for them, but since she has to give ideas to all the grandparents and other relatives who want to buy the kids gifts it's not that easy.<br />
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One thing I do know...I'm not buying the nephew an iPod, or a laptop, or a 3DS...I'm way too cheap for that:-) Plus, nephew seems to think that Santa brings iPods, laptops, and 3DS'. If that's true, I've been sending my wishlists to the wrong person. I need to start sending some ideas about a brand new Kobo or awesome Le Creuset dutch oven to the North Pole!<br />
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I do love seeing Christmas through the sheer joy that kids get from that holiday. It's what makes Christmas magical!Snowcloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02735940795668601830noreply@blogger.com0